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Charles Todd (1826 - 1910)
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Sir Charles Todd KCMG, FRS (7 July 1826 - 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841-1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847-1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as the colony's superintend...
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Johann Rudolf Wolf (1816 - 1893)
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Johann Rudolf Wolf (7 July 1816 - 6 December 1893) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Read more
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Jean Godin des Odonais (1713 - 1792)
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Jean Godin des Odonais (July 5, 1713 Saint-Amand-Montrond, France - March 1, 1792 Paris) was a French cartographer and naturalist. Read more
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Harry Hemley Plaskett (1893 - 1980)
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Harry Hemley Plaskett FRS (July 5, 1893 - January 26, 1980) was a Canadian astronomer who made significant contributions to the fields of solar physics, astronomical spectroscopy and spectrophotometry. From 1932 to 1960, he served as the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxfo...
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Louise Freeland Jenkins (1888 - 1970)
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Louise Freeland Jenkins (July 5, 1888 - May 9, 1970) was an American astronomer. From 1913 to 1915 she worked at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh. She was noted for her research into the trigonometric parallax of nearby stars. She also studied variable stars. [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
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Terence T. Henricks
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Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. He served on four Space Shuttle missions. Read more
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James Breen (1826 - 1866)
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James Breen (5 July 1826 - 25 August 1866) was an Irish astronomer. In 1854 he published The Planetary Worlds: the Topography and Telescopic Appearance of the Sun, Planets, Moon, and Comets. He went to Spain, and observed the total solar eclipse of July 18, 1860 at Camuesa, with Messrs. Wray and Bucki...
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Bernard Mills (1920 - 2011)
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Bernard Yarnton Mills AC, FRS, FAA, DSc(Eng) (8 August 1920 - May 2011) was an Australian engineer and a pioneer of radio astronomy in Australia, responsible for the design and implementation of the Mills Cross Telescope and the Molonglo Cross Telescope. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be...
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Bryan Gaensler
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Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748 - 1845)
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Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (30 June 1748 - 18 October 1845) was a French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury. Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. In 1784 he succeeded his father as director of the observatory; but his plans for its restoration and re-equipment were wrec...
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Ľudmila Pajduáková (1916 - 1979)
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Ludmila Pajdusáková (29 June 1916 - 6 October 1979) was a Slovak astronomer. She specialised in solar astronomy, and also discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusáková, and the non-periodic C/1946 K1 (Pajdusáková-Rotbart-Weber), C/1948 E1 (Pajdusáko...
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Charles Jasper Joly (1864 - 1906)
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Charles Jasper Joly (27 June 1864 - 4 January 1906) was an Irish mathematician and astronomer who became Royal Astronomer of Ireland Read more
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Stewart Ainsworth
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Stewart Ainsworth (born 26 June 1951) is a British archaeological investigator, who is regularly seen on Time Team, the Channel 4 archaeological television series. Read more
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Mick Aston (1946 - 2013)
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Professor Michael Antony 'Mick' Aston, FSA (1 July 1946 - 24 June 2013) was a prominent English archaeologist. As an academic, he taught at a number of universities across the United Kingdom, and helped popularise the discipline amongst the British public by appearing as the resident academic on t...
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Ralph Allen Sampson (1866 - 1939)
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Ralph Allen Sampson FRS (June 25, 1866 - November 7, 1939) was an Irish-British astronomer. He did pioneering work in measuring the colour temperature of stars. He did important research into the theory of the motions of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, for which he won the Gold Medal of the Roya...
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