Astronomer

Scientist whose area of research is astronomy.

Famous astronomers include:

• [John Couch Adams]? (Britain, 1819-1892)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784-1846)
• Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546-1601)
• [Giovanni Domenico Cassini]? (France, 1625-1712)
• [Bonaventura Cavalieri]? (Italy, 1598-1647)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (Prussia, now Poland 1473-1543)
• Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777-1855)
• [Asaph Hall]? (USA, 1829-1907)
• Hipparchus (Nicea, circa 190-120 B.C.)
• Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom, 1915-2001)
• [Christiaan Huygens]? (Netherlands, 1629-1695)
• Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571-1630)
• [Gerard Kuiper]? (Netherlands & USA, 1905-1973)
• Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (France, 1713-1762)
• [Johann Heinrich Lambert]? (Germany, 1728-1777)
• [Pierre Simon Laplace]? (France, 1749-1827)
• Percival Lowell (USA, 1855-1916)
• Isaac Newton (United Kingdom, 1643-1727)
• Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937-1998)
• Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, c. 85 - c. 165)
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436-1476)
• Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany 1511-1553)
• Carl Sagan (USA, 1934-1996)
• Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906-1997)