Statistics for Famous Cosmologists

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