Astronomy
- Cosmic ray by Theodor Wulf and Victor Hess
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion by Johannes Kepler
- Schwarzschild metric by Karl Schwarzschild
- Neptune by Johann Galle
- Uranus, along with two of its major moons (Titania and Oberon) by British-German William Herschel
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