People
Every idea comes from a specific head. The very thought of imagination requires people. These represent, with apologies to Walt Disney, the imagineers of Astronomy and Space Exploration. Without them, we'd be nothing but apes throwing bones at an alien black monolith (wait, wasn't that in Popular Culture?). Now, here are the rules for the People Category: Don't nominate someone you're related to and don't nominate any living people.
Nominations
Consider nominating any of the following candidates under the People category. Highlighted candidates have already been nominated. To view the nominees, place your cursor anywhere over the text of the nominee and click (pop-ups must be enabled on your browser):
Anaximander (c610-c546BC)
Pythagoras (c580-c500BC)
Anaxagoras (c500-c428BC)
Aristotle (384-322BC)
Aristarchus of Samos (280-264BC)
Eratosthenes (c276-c194BC)
Hipparchus of Nicaea (146-127BC)
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus: c100-c178)
Albategnius (c858-929)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Johann Daniel Titius (1729-1796)
Charles Messier (1730-1817)
Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
W.C. Bond (1789-1859) (first photograph of star [Vega] – 1850)
John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871)
John William Draper (1811-1882) (first photograph of Moon – c. 1840)
Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921)
Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
Robert Goddard (1882-1945)
Harlow Shapley (1885-1972)
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
Georges Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966)
Mikhail Klavdiyevich (1900-1974)
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992)
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950)
Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973)
Hans Bethe (1906-2005)
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997)
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (1908-1987)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
Werner von Braun (1912-1977)
Carl Fredrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007)
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
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