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Famous Cosmologists - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 7 times
- The average score is 4 of 14
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| discovered Milky Way | Galileo | 80%
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| used cepheid in Andromeda to measure distance, farther than size of Milky Way, proved island hypothesis | Edwin Hubble | 40%
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| professional musician, studied universe, Sun @ center of disk universe, discovered Uranus | William Herschel | 40%
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| made telescopes, especially one on Mt. Wilson | George Hale | 20%
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| used cepheid pulsation periods to infer magnitude and distance | Harlow Shapley | 20%
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| studied cepheids @ Harvard, slower period=brighter cepheid | Henrietta Leavitt | 20%
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| we're in the Milky Way, island universe vs. nebula hypothesis, ellipsoidal universe | Immanuel Kant | 20%
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| found that a spherical cloud of gas collapses into a disk | James Jeans | 20%
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| catalogued the solar spectrum | Joseph Fraunhofer | 20%
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| mapped emission lines, identified absorption lines | Kirchhoff/Bunsen | 20%
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| found stars in Andromeda spiral nebula arms | Ritchey/Curtis | 20%
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| the milky way is the band around the universe | Thomas Wright | 20%
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| distinguished populations 1+2 cepheids, found contradiction in period-luminosity law | Walter Baade | 20%
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| postulated that all nebulae are gas | William Huggins | 20%
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