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Annie Jump Cannon | | | astronomy | | | | | | | astronomer | | the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types | | | | Havard College Observatory | | | | |
Antonia Maury | | | astronomy | | | | | | | astronomer | | | | | | Havard College Observatory | | | | |
Cecilia Payne Gaposhkin | | | astronomy | | | | | | | astronomer | | | | | | Havard College Observatory | | | | |
Curtis | Heber Doust Curtis | | astronomy | | | | - 1893 : classics, U. Michigan
- 1902 : PhD. U. Virginia
| | | 19th century scientist | 1942, PASP 54, 54. | | | | January 9, 1942 | - 1893-1900 : Taught Latin & Greek, later math
- 1902-1920 : Lick
- 1920-1930 : Director, Allegheny
- 1931-1942 : Director, U. Michigan Observatories
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Hale | George Ellery Hale | | astronomy | | | Shapley | - 1890 : BSc. MIT
- 12 honorary PhDs
| | | 19th century scientist | | | | | 21 February 1938 | | 29 June 1868 | | | |
Hertzsprung | | | astronomy | | | | | | | 19th century scientist | | | | | | | | | | |
Hubble | Edwin Powell Hubble | | astronomy | | | | - 1910 : BSc. U. Chicago
- 1913 : law, Oxford
- 1917 : PhD. Yerkes, ("Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae", Frost as supervisor)
| | | 19th century scientist | - Adams, W.S. : 1954, Observatory 74, 32.
- Humason, M.L. : 1954, MNRAS 114, 291.
- Robertson, H.P. : 1954, PASP 66, 120.
- Sandage, A. : 1989, JRASC 83, 352.
| | | | September 28, 1953 | | November 20, 1889 | | | |
Humason | Milton La Salle Humason | | astronomy | | | | | | | 19th century scientist | | | | Mayall | | | | | | |
Leavitt | Henrietta Leavitt | reaserch assistant, Harvard College Observatory, 1908 | astronomy | | discovered 2400 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud | | | | | 19th century scientist | | the Cepheid period-luminosity relation used in Cepheid distance determination | | Pickering | | | | | | |
Lowell | Percival Lowell | | astronomy | | | | 1876 Harvard (distinction in mathematics) | | | 19th century scientist | | Lowell Observatory (financed with his own money) | | | 1916 | | | | | believes he observed a network of linear canals on the planet Mars built by extraterrestrial beings |
Lundmark | Knut Lundmark | | astronomy | | | | | | Sweden | 19th century scientist | | | | | | | | | | |
Mayall | Nick Mayall | | astronomy | | | | | | | 19th century scientist | | | | Humason | | | | | | |
Niels Bohr | | | physics | | | | | | | 19th century scientist | | | | | | | | | | |
Otto Struve | | | astronomy | | | | | | | astronomer | | | | | 6 April 1963 | | 12 August 1897 | | | |
Pickering | Edward C. Pickering | | astronomy | | | | | | | astronomer | | the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types | | | | Havard College Observatory | | | | |
Shapley | Harlow Shapley | | astronomy | | | van Maanen as a collegue at Mt. Wilson | - 1911 : B.Sc. astronomy, University of Missouri
- 1913 : PhD. Princeton University ("Eclipsing binary stars")
| ignored Humason's observations of Cepheids in Andromeda galaxy | | 19th century scientist | Kopal, Z. : 1972, Nature 240, 429. | structure and scale of our galaxy determined from accurate globular cluster distances | | | 20 October 1972 | | 2 November 1885 | | | |
Slipher | Vesto Melvin Slipher | | astronomy | | | | Indiana Univ. | | | 19th century scientist | | | | | 8 November 1969 | | 11 November 1875 | 1918, PASP 30, 346.. Discussion about the spectra of 'spiral nebula' NGC 4449 and NGC 4214, but no spectra actually published (claims 200 km/s and 300 km/s recession velocities respectively) | Hall, J.S. : 1989, PASP 101, 887. : He discovered the high velocities and rotation of nebulous objects later identified as galaxies. He measured the velocities of 41 of these objects. In 1929 Hubble derived his important velocity-distance relationship using, as he later wrote Slipher, "your velocities and my distances" | |
van Maanen | Adrian van Maanen | | astronomy | Mt. Wilson | | | | | | 19th century scientist | | | | | | | | | | |