Català > astrònom: 1 sentit > nom 1, person | Sentit | A physicist who studies astronomy. |
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| Sinònim | uranologist |
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| Categoria | astronomia, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
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| Espècimens | Anaximandre de Milet | A presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC) |
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| Anders Celsius, Celsius | Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744) |
| Aristarc de Samos | An ancient Greek astronomer who was one of the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe (circa 270 BC) |
| Arthur Stanley Eddington, Eddington | English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944) |
| Asaph Hall | United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907) |
| Benjamin Peirce, Peirce | United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies / studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880) |
| Brahe, Tycho Brahe | Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601) |
| Claudi Ptolemeu, Ptolemy, Ptolomeu, Tolomeu | Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance |
| Clyde Tombaugh | United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997) |
| Copèrnic, Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik, Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) |
| Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley, Halley | English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) |
| Eratòstenes, Eratosthenes | Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846) |
| Galileo Galilei, Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars |
| George Ellery Hale | United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938) |
| Gerard Kuiper, Gerard Peter Kuiper | United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973) |
| Harlow Shapley | United States astronomer (1885-1972) |
| Henry Norris Russell | United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957) |
| Hiparc de Nicea, Hipparchus | Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC) |
| Hipatia, Hypatia | Greek philosopher and astronomer |
| Ibn al-Hàytham | An Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century |
| Johannes Kepler, Kepler | German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630) |
| John Herschel | English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871) |
| Laplace | French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827) |
| Lovell | English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913) |
| Maria Mitchell | United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889) |
| Omar Khayyam | Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) |
| Percival Lowell | United States astronomer whose studies / studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916) |
| Regiomontanus | German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476) |
| Simon Newcomb | United States astronomer (1835-1909) |
| Tales de Milet, Thales, Thales of Miletus | A presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science |
| Willem de Sitter | Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) |
| William Herschel | English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) |
| Específic | astrofísic | An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies |
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| cosmòleg | An astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe |
| General | físic | A scientist trained in physics |
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| Anglès | astronomer, uranologist, stargazer |
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| Espanyol | astrónomo, uranologist |
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| Noms | astronomia, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
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