English > stargazer: 3 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | A physicist who studies astronomy. |
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| Synonyms | astronomer, uranologist |
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| Category | astronomy, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
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| Instances | Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | An Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century |
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| Anaximander | 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) |
| Aristarchus of Samos | An ancient Greek astronomer who was one of the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe (circa 270 BC) |
| Bessel, 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) |
| Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch | United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838) |
| Brahe, Tycho Brahe | Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601) |
| Celsius, Anders Celsius | Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744) |
| Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik | Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) |
| Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington | English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944) |
| Eratosthenes | Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) |
| Galileo, Galileo Galilei | Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars |
| Hale, George Ellery Hale | United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938) |
| Hall, Asaph Hall | United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907) |
| Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley | English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) |
| Herschel, William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel | English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) |
| Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William 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) |
| 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) |
| Huggins, Sir William Huggins | English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910) |
| Hypatia | Greek philosopher and astronomer |
| Kepler, Johannes Kepler, Johan Kepler | German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630) |
| Kuiper, 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) |
| Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley | United States astronomer and aviation / aviation / aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) |
| Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de 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, Sir Bernard Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell | English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913) |
| Lowell, Percival Lowell | United States astronomer whose studies / studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916) |
| Mitchell, Maria Mitchell | United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889) |
| Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus | German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476) |
| Newcomb, Simon Newcomb | United States astronomer (1835-1909) |
| Omar Khayyam | Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) |
| Oort, Jan Hendrix Oort | Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992) |
| Peirce, Benjamin Peirce | United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies / studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880) |
| Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus | Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance |
| Rittenhouse, David Rittenhouse | United States astronomer said to have built the first telescope made in America |
| Russell, Henry Russell, Henry Norris Russell | United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957) |
| Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli | Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910) |
| Shapley, Harlow Shapley | United States astronomer (1885-1972) |
| Sitter, Willem de Sitter | Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) |
| 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 |
| Tombaugh, Clyde Tombaugh, Clyde William Tombaugh | United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997) |
| Narrower | astrophysicist | An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies |
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| cosmologist | An astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe |
| Broader | physicist | A scientist trained in physics |
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| Spanish | astrónomo, uranologist |
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| Catalan | astrònom, uranologist |
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| Verbs | stargaze | observe / observe the stars |
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