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Snyder -- Astronomers

General Information

Famous Astronomers: http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/astronomers-alph.html

Astronomers

Aristarchus
Cornell: http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/aristarchus.htm
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
World of Mathematics: http://galenet.galegroup.com/

Edward Barnard
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Dictionary of American Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Biography of Barnard: http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/virtualmuseum/Barnard.html
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Irish Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/B/036.html

Friedrich Bessel
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Biography of Bessel: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bessel.html

Tycho Brahe
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
World Eras: European Renaissance: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Dutch Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/encycl/V04/01/0796.html
Annie Jump Cannon
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/C/008.html

Giovanni Cassini
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Biography of Cassini: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cassini.html

Nicolaus Copernicus
American Eras: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Hot topics: Copernicus: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/hot.topics/february/copernicus/index_frame.html
Willem de Sitter
Dutch astronomer and mathematician: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/D/028.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Biography of de Sitter: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html

Sir Arthur Eddington
English astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/E/004.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Biography of Eddington: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eddington.html

Galileo Galilei
Encyclopedia of World Biography: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
World of Invention: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Italian Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/encycl/V11/00/0309.html
George E. Hale
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Chicago Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/H/006.html
Biography of Hale: http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/virtualmuseum/Hale.html

Edmund Halley
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
British Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/encycl/V12/01/0731.html
Biography of Halley: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Halley.html
Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
World of Scientific Discovery: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
British Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/encycl/V13/00/0228.html
Short biography of Herschel: http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/bfjones/herschel/

Edwin Hubble
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Contemporary heroes: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/H/078.html

Johannes Kepler
Notable Mathematicians: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
German Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/encycl/V15/01/0571.html
Biography of Kepler: http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html

Henrietta Leavitt
Notable Women Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/L/022.html
Biography of Leavitt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/baleav.html

Charles Messier
Biography of Messier: http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/CMessier.html
Image of MI: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960626.html

Rudolph Minkowski
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/M/060.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/

Maria Mitchell
Notable Women Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Short biography of Mitchell: http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95aug/mitchell.html
Jan Hendrick Oort
Father of modern astronomy: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/O/011.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/

Donald Osterbrock
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/O/015.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Dr. Osterbrock faculty page: http://www.ucolick.org/~board/faculty/osterbrock.html

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/P/017.html
Short biography on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: http://physics.carleton.edu/Astro/pages/marga_michele/Cecilia_Payne.html
Nancy Grace Roman
American astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/R/048.html
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
Dr. Roman's faculty page: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/Nancy/nr.html
Carl Sagan
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/S/004.html
Tribute to Dr. Sagan: http://www.planetary.org/society/tributes/

Harlow Shapley
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/S/036.html
Obituary on Shapley: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/shapley_obit.html

Clyde Tombaugh
Notable Scientists: http://galenet.galegroup.com/
American Astronomer: Ask a librarian for a username and password. http://www.es-one.com/lib/reference/gale/ntcs/T/040.html
1991 interview with Clyde Tombaugh: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0int-1

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Last updated: August 5, 2005