List of Famous Astronomers
by help-12313 | created - 20 Apr 2020 | updated - 20 Apr 2020 | PublicThere have been many famous astronomers throughout history including Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and most recently, Cometan has become synonymous with 21st century astronomy for his founding of the Astronist philosophy.
1. Galileo Galilei
Writer | Body of the Moon - Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
In 1575 Galileo moved to Florence with his parents. He returned to Pisa in 1581 to study mathematics, where he studied until 1585. At the Florentine Accademia del Disegno he became acquainted with the writings of Archimdes and in 1586 constructed a hydrostatic balance. In 1589 he was appointed ...
(born 1564 - 1642)
2. Cometan
Producer | A Conversation with Cometan
Founder of Astronism, philosopher and astrotheologian, lecturer, human rights scholar and specialist in freedom of religion or belief, Cometan was born Brandon Reece Taylor (later changed to Taylorian) in Preston in the county of Lancashire in England to hair salon owner Janet Louise Richardson (...
The most famous young astronomer in the world, Cometan has become synonymous with 21st century astronomy for his development of cosmontology and his astronomical religion, Astronism.
3. Nicolaus Copernicus
Writer | Teatr Polskiego Radia
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland. He was a writer, known for Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004). He died on May 24, 1543 in Frombork, Poland.
4. Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton is known for Stomp! Shout! Scream! (2005), Fair Game (2005) and Motives (2004).
5. Johannes Kepler
German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, conventionally designated as follows: (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the time necessary to traverse any arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the ...
6. Albert Einstein
Writer | Schooling the World
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, to a German Jewish family. He was the son of Pauline (Koch) and Hermann Einstein, a featherbed salesman. Albert began reading and studying science at a young age, and he graduated from a Swiss high school when he was 17. He then attended a ...
7. Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was born on December 14, 1546 in Knutstorp Castle, Scania, Denmark, Denmark-Norway (now Sweden). He died on October 24, 1601 in Prague, Habsburg Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [now Czech Republic].
8. Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, USA. He died on September 28, 1953 in San Marino, California, USA.
9. William Herschel
Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 - 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). Born in the Electorate of Hanover, ...
10. Carl Sagan
Writer | Contact
Astronomer, educator and author Carl Sagan was perhaps the world's greatest popularizer of science, reaching millions of people through newspapers, magazines and television broadcasts. He is well-known for his work on the PBS series Cosmos (1980), the Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning show that ...
11. Clyde Tombaugh
Self | Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
Clyde Tombaugh was born on February 4, 1906 in Streator, Illinois, USA. He was married to Patricia Edson. He died on January 17, 1997 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
12. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Actor | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was ...
13. Brian Cox
Brian Cox was born on March 3, 1968 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sunshine (2007), The Last Star and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has been married to Gia Milinovich since 2003. They have one child.
14. Chris Lintott
Actor | They've Made Us
Chris Lintott is known for They've Made Us (2023), The Sky at Night (1957) and Chris Moyles Quiz Night (2009).
15. Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Maggie Aderin-Pocock is known for Paradox (2009), Robot Wars (1998) and Duck Quacks Don't Echo (2014).
16. Edmond Halley
17. Stephen Hawking
Actor | Star Trek: The Next Generation
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 on Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
His scientific works include a collaboration with ...
Tell Your Friends