1838-1916
1876-1956
1921-2007
Benjamin Banneker was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor and writer.
1731-1806
1114-1185
1546-1601
British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell assisted in constructing a large radio telescope and discovered pulsars, cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses.
1943-
Annie Jump Cannon was a pioneering astronomer responsible for the classification of hundreds of thousands of stars.
1863-1941
1625-1712
1701-1744
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus identified the concept of a heliocentric solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of the solar system.
1473-1543
Italian scientist and scholar Galileo made pioneering observations that laid the foundation for modern physics and astronomy.
1564-1642
1777-1855
1750-1848
Robert Hooke was an English philosopher, mathematician and architect who discovered the law of elasticity, now known as Hooke's law.
1635-1703
Astronomer Edwin Hubble revolutionized the field of astrophysics. His research helped prove that the universe is expanding, and he created a classification system for galaxies that has been used for several decades.
1889-1953
1905-1973
1855-1916
1818-1889
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
1643-1727
Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer who confirmed that the Milky Way rotates in its own plane around the center of the galaxy.
1900-1992
1934-1996
1800-1877
American radio astronomer and physicist Joseph H. Taylor Jr. was the co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the first binary pulsar.
1941-
1906-2004
1936-