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Also Known As Polidore F. F. Swings
Born September 24, 1906 • Belgium
Died October 28, 1983 (aged 77)
Subjects Of Study Swings effect • comet • spectroscopy • star

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Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
American astrophysicist
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
Robert Emden
Swiss astronomer
Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
France A. Córdova
France A. Córdova
French-born American astrophysicist
Viktor Ambartsumian
Viktor Ambartsumian
Armenian astronomer
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astronomer