astronomer
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Among them was astronomer and astrophysicist Ernst Öpik.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
If you’re an astronomer, it’s people confusing what you do with astrology.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we have seen in the past 50 years," said Eliza Neights, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The calculation was created in the 1800s by a Belgian astronomer, and then a doctor in the U.S. renamed it the body mass index in the 1970s.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
In Peking, in the 1670s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit astronomer, was able to build instruments based on his designs without ever having seen Brahe’s originals.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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