IMPORTANT PERSONELS Flashcards
Who is the Father of Observational Astronomy?
Galileo Galilei
Who is the Mathmatician and Astronomer who formulated a Model of the Universe?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Who invented the Nebular Hypothesis and Mathmatical Astronomy?
Pierre Simon Laplace
Who made the Steady Sate Theory?
Thomas Gold
Who discovered Pluto and Asteroids?
Clyde Tombaugh
Who discovered the Infrared Radiation and the planet Uranus?
William Hershels
Who discovered the Comets?
Caroline Hershels
His works is in the field of Astronomy and Mathematics. Who is he?
Johannes Kepler
Who discovered the planet Neptune?
Johann Gottfried Galle
Who invented the Stellar Classification System and Harvard Classification Scheme?
Annie Jump Cannon
Who discovered Halley’s Comet?
Edmund Halley
Who made the SETI program and TV series COSMOS?
Carl Sagan
Who was the person having Space Telescope named after him?
Edwin Hubble
Who identified Pluto as TNO’s (trans-Neptunian)?
Michael E. Brown
Who provided an explanation for Saturn’s Rings?
Christian Huygens
