Jarita Holbrook

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Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Occupation: Historian
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: History of Science, History of Astronomy, Broadcasting
"Historians of astronomy…are… people with a broad and open-minded curiosity about those forces which drove human endeavour in the past."
Occupation: Astronomer and Writer
Year born: 1842
Research Areas: History of Astronomy, Biographies, Spectroscopy
Occupation: Physicist & Astronomer
Year born: 1873
Research Areas: Relativity, Black Holes, Quantum Theory, Stars, Comets
"Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, march in one front."
Occupation: Physicist & Author
Year born: 1942
Research Areas: Cosmology, Theoretical Physics
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1910
Research Areas: Stellar Evolution, Black Holes
"My motive has not been to solve a single problem, but to acquire a perspective of an entire area"
Occupation: Mathematician, Astronomer
Year born: 1868
Research Areas: The Sun, Sunspots, Magnetic Storms
Occupation: Mathematician
Year born: 1918
Research Areas: Rocket Flightpaths, Trajectories, Orbital Mechanics
"I loved going to work every single day"