“The Astronomer William Herschel: A Short Biography” highlights the accomplishments and the important events in the life of the 18th century English astronomer William Herschel. Herschel is most known for

Tycho Brahe was a 16th century Danish nobleman, writer, and astronomer who made thousands of accurate naked eye observations of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. His observations along with

The nineteenth-century English chemist and entrepreneur, Sir William Crookes, is one of the most complex and interesting figures in the history of science. As well as a leading scientist, he

The German-American Wernher von Braun started his career in rocketry as a young man in Adolf Hitler’s Germany and would go on to become one of the driving forces in

Dr. Robert Goddard is considered the father of modern rocketry in the United States. His pioneering work lead the way to “space age” and man’s ability to travel to the

Nicolaus Copernicus was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer who lived during the Renaissance and Reformation eras and contributed to science with a new model of the universe that placed the

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician, who was a prominent figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

Galileo Galilei grew up in a time when nearly everyone thought the Earth was the center of the universe and the Sun and the planets revolved around the Earth. His