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Born April 8, 1793 • Poland
Died September 21, 1866 (aged 73) • Poland
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William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Max Wolf
Max Wolf
German astronomer
Simon Marius
German astronomer
Karl Ludwig Harding
German astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astronomer
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
William Cranch Bond
American astronomer
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
Barnard's star
Edward Emerson Barnard
American astronomer
Hall, Asaph
Asaph Hall
American astronomer
Johann Palisa
Silesian astronomer

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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