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Astronomers and Scientists

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Hipparchus (Ancient Greek Astoronomer)
B.C.190-B.C.120(About)
 
ESA has launched Hipparcos(1989-062B)

This stamp commemorates opening of the Evghenides Planetarim
(Greecee, 1965, SC#835)
Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish Astoronomer)
1473-1543

Germany has lauched 3 Kopernikus (1989-041B, 1990-063B, 1992-066A)

European Earth Observation Program GMES will be renamed to Kopernikus.
 
(Poland,1969,SC#1661)
Tycho Brahe (Danish Astoronomer)
1546-1601

(Denmark,1946,SC#300)
Galileo Galilei (Italian Scientist)
1564-1642
 
US has launched Jupiter Explorer Galileo (1989-084B)

Europe now developping navigation system named Galileo.

(Left : Italia,1983,SC#1558     Right : St.Vincent, 2005)

Johannes Kepler (Austrian Scientist)
1571-1630

NASA will launch Kepler on 16 Feb, 2009.

(Austria,1953,SC#B282)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (Italian Astronomer)
1629-1695
Cassini discovered several satellites of Jupiter.

NASA has launched Saturn Explorer Cassini. (1997-061A)
(Mozambique, 2000)

Christiaan Huygens (Dutch Astronomer)
1629-1695

Huygens discovered Titan (satellite of Saturn).

(Djibouti, 2006)

Isaac Newton (British Scientist)
1642-1727

ESA has launched X-ray Telescope XMM-Newton. (1999-066A)

(Left : Monaco,1987,SC#1601   Right : St.Vincent, 2005)

Edmond Halley (British Astronomer)

1656-1742

British Antarctic Territory, 1986, SC#129)

Herschel (British Astronomer)
1738-1822

Herschel is discoverer of Uranus.

ESA will launch Scientific Satellite Herschel on Dec. 2008

(Ivory Coast, 1986, SC#C100)


Edwin Powell Hubble (US Astronomer)
1889-1953
 
NASA has launched Hubble Telescope. (1990-037B)

(Djibouti, 2006)

 

Hisashi Kimura (Japanese Astronomer)
1873-1940

 
(Japan, 1952, SC#494)


Stephen William Hawking (British Scientist)
1942-
 

(Palau, 2000)
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