History & Biographies: Biographies
Biographies of people who have made significant contributions to astronomy and space science.
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Galilei, Galileo
Introduction Many books and plays exist on the life of Galilei, the Italian scholar who laid the foundation to the discipline known for many years as "natural philosophy," now called physics. He was...
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The Galileo Project
The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you...
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Introduction Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 -- March 6, 2005) -- German born American theoretical physicist...
Introduction Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish nobleman interested in astronomy. In 1572 a "new star" (in t...
Nicolaus Copernicus (the Latin version of Koppernigk) was a Polish church official whose passion was astronomy...
Introduction Einstein's appropriation of the metric tensor to also represent the gravitational field led to an...
Introduction The central issues behind these studies are deceptively simple to state: What is the quantum mech...
Introduction Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) had studied astronomy long before he met Tycho Brahe: he favored the ...
Introduction A French astronomer best known for his catalogue of unusual objects. Charles Joseph Messier was b...
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