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William Herschel

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference

The Griffith Observatory with the Herschel statue (center)

William Herschel (1738-1822) was a British astronomer of German origin.

He was one of six Human astronomers honored with a monument located in front of the Griffith Observatory, the others being Hipparchus, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton. (VOY: "Future's End")

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