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Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
Herbert Hall Turner
British astronomer
Barnard's star
Edward Emerson Barnard
American astronomer
Henry Draper
American astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Otto Struve
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Swings, Pol
Pol Swings
Belgian astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer

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