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Astronomers and Astrophysicists

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Edwin Hubble

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Hubble made the observational discovery that the universe is expanding, leading to the formulation of Hubble's Law.

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Albert Einstein

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Einstein developed the theory of relativity, which has become fundamental to modern physics.

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Georges Lemaître

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Lemaître proposed the Big Bang theory for the origin of the universe and also derived Hubble's Law independently.

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Arthur Eddington

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Eddington was a key figure in the popularization and interpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity in the English-speaking world.

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Vera Rubin

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Rubin provided some of the most convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter through the study of galaxy rotation curves.

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Isaac Newton

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Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation which he used to predict planetary orbits.

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Stephen Hawking

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Hawking made significant contributions to cosmology and theoretical physics, including the prediction of Hawking radiation.

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Johannes Kepler

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Kepler formulated the three laws of planetary motion which significantly improved the heliocentric model of the solar system.

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William Herschel

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Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, and also two moons of Saturn, in addition to creating a comprehensive catalog of nebulae and star clusters.

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Karl Jansky

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Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves, thus laying the groundwork for the field of radio astronomy.

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Hipparchus

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Hipparchus is considered the founder of trigonometry and made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the motion of the Sun and Moon.

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Annie Jump Cannon

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Cannon developed a stellar classification system based on the temperature of stars, which is still used today (OBAFGKM).

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars, providing important evidence for the existence of rapidly rotating neutron stars.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

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Leavitt discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars, which became a crucial step in measuring cosmic distances.

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Tycho Brahe

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Brahe's detailed astronomical observations laid the foundation for Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

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Galileo Galilei

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Galileo is known for his improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations that supported heliocentrism.

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Carl Sagan

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Sagan was crucial in popularizing astronomy through books and the television series 'Cosmos'.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Chandrasekhar determined the maximum mass for white dwarfs, beyond which they would collapse into neutron stars or black holes.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium and are the most common elements in the universe.

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