Heinrich Schwabe

Description: (German Astronomer Who Discovered That Sunspots Vary in Number in a Cycle of About 10 Years)
Initially an apothecary, Heinrich Schwabe later gained fame as an astronomer and studied sunspots. He was also the first to draw Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. He was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and also won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Birthday October 25, 1789 (Scorpio)
Died on April 11, 1875
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