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Subject	has name	had appointment	has career	has accomplishment	has associate	has degree	has greatest gaffe	has country of origin	is an instance of	has contribution	has greatest achievement	has image	is associated with	has death date	has career	has birth date	has publication	has refererence	has greatest blunder
Annie Jump Cannon									astronomer		the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types				Havard College Observatory
Antonia Maury									astronomer						Havard College Observatory
Cecilia Payne Gaposhkin									astronomer						Havard College Observatory
Curtis	Heber Doust Curtis					1893 : classics, U. Michigan 1902 : PhD. U. Virginia			19th century scientist					January 9, 1942	1893-1900 : Taught Latin & Greek, later math 1902-1920 : Lick 1920-1930 : Director, Allegheny 1931-1942 : Director, U. Michigan Observatories	1872
Galileo Galilei									astronomer
Hale	George Ellery Hale				Shapley	1890 : BSc. MIT 12 honorary PhDs			19th century scientist					21 February 1938	1886-1996 : Harvard & private observatory 1887-1904 : Yerkes/Chicago 1904-1923 : Mt. Wilson 1923-1938 : honorary director & private observatory	29 June 1868
Hertzsprung									19th century scientist
Hubble	Edwin Powell Hubble					1910 : BSc. U. Chicago 1913 : law, Oxford 1917 : PhD. Yerkes, ("Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae", Frost as supervisor)			19th century scientist					September 28, 1953	1914-1917 : Assistant, Yerkes Observatory 1919-1953 : Mt. Wilson	November 20, 1889
Humason	Milton La Salle Humason								19th century scientist				Mayall
Johann Bayer									astronomer						named many of the constellations in the southern hemisphere
Lacaille	Abbé Nicholas Louis de la Caille								astronomer	named many of the constellations in the southern hemisphere				1762	Invented several southern constellations (many of which are still in use) compiled a catalog of Southern Deep-Sky objects with 42 entries, 33 of which are real. Among them are 25 original and at least two independent rediscoveries. discovered Eta Carinae Nebula NGC 3372 discovered globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) discovered the Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070 in the Large Magellanic Cloud discovered spiral galaxy M83, the first discovered galaxy beyond the Local Group	1713
Leavitt	Henrietta Leavitt	reaserch assistant, Harvard College Observatory, 1908		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					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							Sweden	19th century scientist
Mayall	Nick Mayall								19th century scientist				Humason
Otto Struve									astronomer					6 April 1963	Yerkes McDonald	12 August 1897
Pickering	Edward C. Pickering								astronomer		the Henry Draper Catalog of spectral types				Havard College Observatory
Shapley	Harlow Shapley				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		structure and scale of our galaxy determined from accurate globular cluster distances			20 October 1972	1914-1920 : Mt. Wilson 1921-1952 : Director Harvard College Observatory 1952-1972 : Emeritus	2 November 1885
Slipher	Vesto Melvin Slipher					Indiana Univ.			19th century scientist					8 November 1969	1901-1916 : Lowell Observatory 1913 : blue-shift observed in Andromeda galaxy (Bull. Lowell Obs., 2, 56) 1914 : first galaxy redshifts observed (Bull. Lowell Obs., 2, 6) 1916-1954 : Director Lowell Observatory 1917 : most galaxies have redshifts (The Observatory, 40, 304) 1925 : red-shifts of galaxies suggest a distance/velocity relationship 1929 : Hubble combines Slipher's redshift measurements with Hubble's distance estimates and postulates Hubble's Law	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		Mt. Wilson						19th century scientist

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