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Otto Struve
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
Belgian astronomer
Henry Draper
American astronomer
Giovanni Battista Donati
Italian astronomer

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