Astronomy Project

This is my project on all the list of Astronomers.

Aristotle-
384-322 B.C.E.
He discovered the solar eclipse
He also was one of the first to claim that the world is round.

S. Chandrassekhar
1910-1995
In 1983 he received the Nobel Prize in physics for his knowledge on the death stars.
In 1999 NASA named it’s orbiting x-ray telescope the Chandra observatory after him.

Annie Cannon
1863-1941
Discovered three hundred variable stars.
Cataloged spectral types of hundreds of thousands of stars.
Founded the Annie Jump Cannon prize.

Gailieo Galilei
1564-1642
Studied the way objects accelerate.
August 25, 1609 Galileo demonstrated a telescope with a mag. of 9x (the first real telescope)
He showed that the velocities of falling objects does not depend on what they weigh.
He was considered a heretic by the church in Rome because he believed that the planets go around the sun and not the earth.

Robert Wilson-
1936-
1978 won a Noble Peace Prize in physics.
Worked with comic background radiation.

Nicolaus Copernicus
1473-1543
He developed the Heliocentric
He figured out that the earth is a planet and all the planets circle the sun.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955
He determined how the max speed of light affects measurement of time and space.

Clyde Tombaugh
1906-1997
On March 13, 1930 the Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto.
During his search for planets he also discovered 3000 asteroids.

Johannes Kepler
1571-1630
He was a believer in the heliocentric theory.
He also developed three laws of planetary motion.

Edwin Hubble
1889-1953
He is the astronomer the Hubble space telescope is named after.
He started the theory of the big bang.

Isaac Newton
1642-1727
Some people consider him to be the “father of modern science”.
There is a story that he discovered gravity when an apple fell and hit him on the head.
He also helped start calculus.

Tycho Brahe
1546-1601
Some people call him the father of modern astronomy.
He spent his life doing work on astronomical tables.

Bode
1747-1926
Developed Bodes law, the way to measure the distance of planets from the sun.
He also ran a observatory in Berlin.

James Van Allen
1914-2006
Van Allen raditation belts were named after him.
He was from Iowa.
He worked with rockets.

Albert Michelson
1852-1931
He discovered the speed of light.
Developed an interferometer to measure light.
In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize.

Pope Gregory XII
1327-1417
He was the pope for nine years.
He helped to end the fighting in Europe.




Stephen Hawking
1942-
Expert on black holes.
He is also a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.


Carl Sagan
1934-1996
Was in the pbs show Cosmos.
He later won a Pulitzer Prize.

Ptolemy
2nd century A.D.
He wrote four books on astronomy.
He explained how to figure out the lines of latitude and longitude.

Hipparchus
170 B.C.-120 B.C.
He invented the way to divide stars based on how bright they are.
He was one of the first to figure out trigonometry.


Sources: Voyages Book
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