- Treasure Planet
"Treasure Planet" is a 2002 Academy Award nominated science fiction animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. The 42nd animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is a science fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel "Treasure Island". It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker from a screenplay by Musker, Clements, … - Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works "Astronomia nova", "Harmonices Mundi", and "Epitome of Copernican Astronomy". - Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, Jay Kavanse. - Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include: * "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" (1995) - the genius in question was John Harrison, … - Jeff Waugh
Jeff Waugh (known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is very active in the GNOME free software community. He is married to Pia Waugh - another active member of the free software community in Australia. - Michael E. Brown
Michael (Mike) E. Brown has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. He was previously an associate professor at Caltech from 2002-2003 and an assistant professor at Caltech from 1997–2002. - John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. - Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper, born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (Dec 7 1905, Harenkarspel (Tuitjenhorn) - Dec 23 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch American astronomer who became a naturalized citizen of the United States and lived most of his life in his new homeland. Kuiper, the son of a tailor in a rural village in North Holland, had an early interest in astronomy. He was blessed with an extraordinarily sharp eyesight, … - John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed was an English astronomer. Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, and was educated at Derby School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon and was preparing to take up a living in Derbyshire, when he was invited to London. On 4 March 1675 he was appointed by royal warrant "The King's Astronomical Observator" - the first British Astronomer Royal, with an allowance of £100 a year. - Michael Benson
Michael Benson is an American filmmaker and writer who has lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia since the early-1990s He filmed a documentary there, "Predictions of Fire", on the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), or "New Slovenian Art" movement. He later published a book of his own digitally reprocessed images from interplanetary space probes, called "Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes". - Gerard O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring. - Scott James Remnant
Scott James Remnant is a free and open source software developer. He is an employee of Canonical Ltd where he works on the Ubuntu Linux distribution and directs development of the distribution as part of the four-person technical board. Scott is particularly notable as the author of the new Upstart system initialization system and the popular Planet weblog aggregation system. - Ray Jayawardhana
Ray Jayawardhana is a renowned astronomer at the University of Toronto and an award-winning science writer. His primary research areas include the formation and early evolution of stars, brown dwarfs and planets. As a graduate student at Harvard, he led one of the two teams that discovered a dusty disk around the young star HR 4796A with a large inner hole, possibly carved out by planet formation processes. - Maciej Konacki
Dr. Maciej Konacki (b. 1972 in Toruń, Poland) is a Polish astronomer, notable for his discovery of HD 188753 Ab, the first planet discovered in a three star system. - Richard P. Binzel
Richard (Rick) P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets. Binzel was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society in 1991. He also was awarded a MacVicar Faculty Fellowship for teaching excellence at MIT in 1994. - David Hamel
David Hamel (1924) is a carpenter and inventor who claims to be inspired by extraterrestrials, living in Ontario, Canada with his wife. Hamel claims to have been contacted by aliens, from a planet called "Kladen", which is "located three billion miles from our Earth", and to have been in continuous contact with them ever since. - Daniel Kirkwood
Daniel Kirkwood (September 27, 1814 - June 11, 1895) was an American astronomer. Born in Harford County, Maryland, he graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania in 1838. After teaching there for five years, he became Principal of the Lancaster High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and after another five years he moved on to become Principal of the Pottsville Academy in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. - Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl is a German astronomer working at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice, France. In 1999, he was part of a team that discovered the satellites Prospero, Setebos and Stephano of the planet Uranus. - Heinrich Schwabe
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (October 25, 1789-April 11, 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Schwabe was born at Dessau. At first an apothecary, he turned his attention to astronomy, and in 1826 commenced his observations on sunspots. Schwabe was trying to discover a new planet inside the orbit of Mercury which was tentatively called Vulcan. Because of the proximity to the Sun, it would have been very difficult to observe Vulcan, … - Syuichi Nakano
Syuichi Nakano is a Japanese astronomer. He specializes in the study of comets, in particular calculating their orbits and making predictions about when periodic comets will return for another perihelion approach. It is considerably more difficult to predict the orbits of comets than of other types of solar system objects, … - James Challis
James Challis (December 12, 1803 - December 3, 1882) was a British clergyman and astronomer. He was born in Braintree, Essex and died in Cambridge. He was Plumian Professor for 46 years from 1836 to his death and director of the Cambridge Observatory at the University of Cambridge from 1836 until 1861, at which time he was succeeded by John Couch Adams. In 1846, John Herschel finally persuaded him to join in the search for an eighth planet in the solar system. - Harold F. Levison
Harold F. "Hal" Levison is a planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He argued for a distinction between what are now called dwarf planets and the other eight planets based on their inability to "clear the neighborhood around their orbits," although his proposal suggested the terms "unterplanet" and "überplanet" and used the word "dwarf" to mean something else. - Eudoxus Of Cnidus
Eudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, physician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy. Theodosius of Bithynia's "Sphaerics" may be based on a work of Eudoxus. Eudoxus was the son of Aeschines of Cnidus, located in Asia Minor. Eudoxus first travelled to Tarentum to study with Archytas, from whom he learned mathematics. - David J. Stevenson
David J. Stevenson (born September 2,1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well-known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons. - Alexis Bouvard
Alexis Bouvard (June 27, 1767 - June 7, 1843) was a French astronomer, born in Contamines, France. Bouvard's achievements included the discovery of eight comets and the compilation of astronomical tables of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. While the former two tables were eminently successful, the latter showed substantial discrepancies with subsequent observations. - Seth Ward
Seth Ward (1617 - 6 January 1689) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop. He was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became fellow in 1640. In 1643 he was chosen university mathematical lecturer, but he was deprived of his fellowship next year for opposing the Solemn League and Covenant. In 1649 he became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford University, … - Heinrich Louis D'Arrest
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a Prussian astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest. While still a student, d'Arrest was party to Johann Gottfried Galle's search for Neptune. On September 23 1846, he suggested that a recently drawn chart of the sky, in the region of Urbain Le Verrier's predicted location, could be compared with the current sky to seek the displacement characteristic of a planet, … - Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (1031–1095 AD) was a polymath Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, ethnographer, encyclopedist, poet, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, and governmental state inspector. - Martin Mobberley
Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is an amateur British astronomer, author, and former electronics engineer. He images a wide variety of objects, including comets, planets, novae, supernovae and asteroids from his observatory in Suffolk, England. - George Saliba
George Saliba has been Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, USA since 1979. George Saliba received a master of science degree in Semitic languages and a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a recipient of a number of awards and honors, including the History of Science Prize given by the Third World Academy of Science in 1993, … - Ben Bussey
Ben J. Bussey is a planetary scientist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary geology at University College London, England. In 2001, during his post-doctorate work at the University of Hawaii, he joined the ANSMET (Antarctic Search for METeorites) expedition to recover meteorites from the Antarctic glaciers. He worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston and the European Space Agency, … - John Tripp
John Tripp (1927-1986) was an Anglo-Welsh poet and short-story writer. Born in Bargoed, Wales, he worked for the BBC as a journalist with the BBC, and later became a civil servant. He edited the literary magazine, "Planet", and was a popular performance poet. The John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award was founded to commemorate him. - Jens Martin Knudsen
Jens Martin Knudsen (October 12, 1930 - February 17, 2005) was an internationally renowned Danish astrophysicist, particularly well known in his home country. Born in Haurum near Aarhus, he was author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles, and a long time advisor to NASA. Originally educated as a school teacher, but in 1962 got his degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Copenhagen. - Dale Frail
Dale A. Frail is a Canadian radio astronomer working for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989. In addition to searching for planetary bodies outside of our solar system, he also studies gamma ray bursts. In early 1992 while working for NRAO, Frail and Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan, … - Liu Xin
Liu Xin, courtesy name Zijun (子駿), was the son of Liu Xiang, a Chinese astronomer and historian during the Xin Dynasty. He created a new astronomical system, called "Triple Concordance". He published this system in the year 8 as section of his textbook. In it he provided the following periods: *The Moon phase period (synodic month): 29 43/81 days. *A total of 235 synodic months add up to 19 years. Therefore his number of days in one year was 365.25016, … - George William Hill
George William Hill (March 3, 1838 - April 16, 1914), was a U.S. astronomer and mathematician. Hill was born in New York City, New York, and moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from Rutgers University in 1859. From 1861, he worked at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work focused on the mathematics describing the three-body problem, later the four-body problem, … - Kidinnu
Kidinnu (also Kidunnu was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician. Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas. Some cuneiform and classical Greek and Latin texts mention an astronomer with this name, but it is not clear if they all refer to the same individual: * The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, … - Taqi Al-Din
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi was a major Muslim scientist and inventor. He is the author of several texts on astronomy, astrology, optics, and clocks. One of his books, "Al-Turuq al-samiyya fi al-alat al-ruhaniyya (The Sublime Methods of Spiritual Machines)", described the workings of a rudimentary steam engine, predating the more famous discovery of steam power by Giovanni Branca in 1629. - Stefano Sposetti
Stefano Sposetti (Born on December 22, 1958) is a Swiss astronomer. He lives in Gnosca, Switzerland. Sposetti is a prolific discoverer of minor planets. - Johann Daniel Titius
Johann Daniel Titius (January 2 1729 - December 11 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg. He is best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law, and for using this rule to predict the existence of a celestial object at 2.8 AU from the sun. His suggestion that the object would necessarily be small was later superseded by the claim of Johann Elert Bode for a planet-like object, subsequently identified as being Ceres.
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