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Noun: Marquis de Laplace
  1. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
    - Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace

Type of: astronomer, mathematician, stargazer, uranologist

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