The Griffith Observatory with the Herschel statue (center)
William Herschel (1738 - 1822) was a British astronomer of German origin.
He was one of six Human astronomers honored with a monument located in front of the Griffith Observatory, the others being Hipparchus, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton. (VOY: "Future's End")