[Answer] Which astronomer has a chemical element named in his honor?

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Which astronomer has a chemical element named in his honor?

• Nicolaus Copernicus:Copernicium is a chemical element with the symbol Cn and atomic number 112. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that can only be created in a laboratory. Copernicium was first created in 1996, and is named after Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Considered the father of modern astronomy, Copernicus was the first modern European scientist to propose that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Copernicus' observations of the heavens were made with the naked eye, as he did not have the tools to prove his theories. He died more than fifty years before Galileo became the first person to study the skies with a telescope.

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