Famous Swedish Astronomers

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Anders Celsius
(Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician)
Anders Celsius
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Birthdate: November 27, 1701
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Uppsala
Died: April 25, 1744
Inventor of the centigrade or the Celcius scale of temperature, Swedish astronomer and scientist Anders Celsius was no stranger to science, being the son of an astronomy professor and the grandson of mathematician Magnus Celsius. His expeditions confirmed Isaac Newton's belief that the earth was flattened at the poles.
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Max Tegmark
(Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist)
Max Tegmark
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Birthdate: May 5, 1967
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Sweden

Born to math professor Harold S. Shapiro, Max Tegmark grew up to co-establish the Future of Life Institute, with funding from Elon Musk. The MIT professor is a specialist in cosmology, physics, and machine learning and had also penned a book on artificial intelligence, titled Life 3.0.

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Bertil Lindblad
(Swedish Astronomer Who Was the First to Propose the Rotation of the Galaxy)
Bertil Lindblad
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Birthdate: November 26, 1895
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Örebro, Sweden
Died: June 25, 1965
Bertil Lindblad was a Swedish astronomer best remembered for serving as the head of the Stockholm Observatory as well as a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He oversaw the re-establishment of the Stockholm Observatory at Saltsjöbaden in 1931. Bertil Lindblad was honored with several prestigious awards, such as the Bruce Medal and Janssen Medal.
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Nils Christoffer Dunér
(Astronomer)
Nils Christoffer Dunér
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Birthdate: May 21, 1839
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Billeberga, Sweden
Died: November 10, 1914
Nils Christoffer Dunér was a Swedish astronomer who served as a professor at Uppsala University from 1888. A respected astronomer, Dunér was honored with many prestigious awards such as the Rumford Medal in 1892. A crater on the Moon is named Nils Christoffer Dunér in his honor.