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Archenhold founded the Treptow Observatory that holds his name today.
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Nicolae Coculescu was a Roman astronomer, the first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Bucharest.
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Francesco Denza was an Italian meteorologist and astronomer. At the time of his death, he was President of the Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei (Academy of the Lynx-Eyed).
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Nicolas Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer and author. He was a founder and the first president of the Société astronomique de France. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.
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Goldschmidt was a German-French painter amateur astronomer and a systematic asteroid searcher, discovered 14 asteroids.
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Jeno Gothard was a wealthy Hungarian nobleman who established a private observatory in Herény. He was also a mechanical engineer and astronomer.
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Johan August Hugo Gyldén was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics.
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Hind was an English astronomer and a systematic asteroid searcher, discovered 10 asteroids.
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Fernand Jacobs was an amatuer astronomer and founder of the Belgian Astronomy Society.
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His greatest discovery happened in 1868, it was the Helium gas. The French Academy of Sciences established an award medal out of respect for him.
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Miklós Konkoly Thege was a wealthy Hungarian nobleman who established a private observatory at Ógyalla. He was not simply a rich landowner but an educated scientist as well.
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Zygmunt Laskowski a Polish medical doctor, professor of anatomy of University on Geneva, amateur astronomer, issued a commemorative medal on his own discovery of a supernova.
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Urbain Le Verrier French was astronomer who wrote his name into the history of astronomy by discovering the Neptune.
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Karl Ludwig von Littrow was observatory director in Vienna, author and translator of several astronomical work.
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His portrait was modeled on a medal associated with his greatest discovery, the Helium gas.
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Luther was a German astronomer and a systematic asteroid searcher, discovered 24 asteroids.
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The Swedish astronomer Axel Möller can be found on a medal that was issued in 1906.
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Frederico Augusto Oom was originally a hydrographic engineer and the lieutenant of the Portuguese Navy. Later he was trained by Otto Struve on astronomy and became the first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon.
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Father Pietro Angelo Secchi was an Italian astronomer, director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
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Swasey was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, amateur astronomer, and philanthropist.
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Warner was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, amateur astronomer, and philanthropist.
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Yrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.