History
Gan De
Thebe Medupe

Credit: North West University
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Occupation: Astrophysicist & Ethno-astronomer
Year born: 1973
Research Areas: Variable Stars
Haida Liang
Occupation: Professor of Physics
Research Areas: Imaging and Sensing, Conservation, Science and Art
"I’m working on the boundary between optical imaging and history… physics and history are the two things that I love."
Anthony Aveni

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Occupation: Astronomer, Anthropologist and Author
Year born: 1938
Research Areas: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy in the Americas, Mayans
Jarita Holbrook

Credit: AAAS portrait photographer.
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Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Allan Chapman
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."
Agnes Clerke

Credit: Hector Macpherson
Occupation: Astronomer and Writer
Year born: 1842
Research Areas: History of Astronomy, Biographies, Spectroscopy
History

analogue computer used to predict
astronomical positions and eclipse.
Credit: Wikicommons user Marsyas
Isaac Newton

Credit: G Kneller
Occupation: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist
Year born: 1643
Research Areas: Optics, maths, motion, gravity