M2-9 [SEP] discoverer or inventor
M2-9
Minkowski 2-9, abbreviated M2-9 (also known as Minkowski's Butterfly, Twin Jet Nebula, the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula, or just Butterfly Nebula) is a planetary nebula that was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. It is located about 2,100 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus. This bipolar nebula takes the peculiar form of twin lobes of material that emanate from a central star. Astronomers have dubbed this object as the "Twin Jet Nebula"
, writer, and linguist
- Richard Owen, English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist
- Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher
- André Patry, French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s
- Emmi Pikler, Hungarian pediatrician and infant-education theorist
- Paul Ricœur, French philosopher, for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, raised by aunt and uncle
- Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer