David H. Levy

David H. Levy

male, 61 years old
Wendee Levy, Cometdiscoverer, Asteroid discoverer, 129P/Shoemaker-Levy, 135P/Shoemaker-Levy, 137P/Shoemaker-Levy…Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
David H. Levy (born 1948) is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided...

Alan Hale

male, 51 years old
Cometdiscoverer, New Mexico State University, Tachikawa, Deep Space Network, Comet Hale-Bopp, Voyager 2
Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American astronomer. Hale was born in Tachikawa, Japan, in 1958, but grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He served in...
Yuji Hyakutake

Yuji Hyakutake

male, deceased (2002)
Cometdiscoverer, amateur astronomy, aneurysm, Japanese, mass media, Astronomer…Comet Ikeya-Seki, Comet Hyakutake
was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 30 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars. His only other discovery was c...
Robert H. McNaught

Robert H. McNaught

male, 53 years old
P/2007 H1, Comet McNaught 10, C/2006 K3, C/2006 K1, C/2006 E1, C/2006 B1…Comet McNaught, Cometdiscoverer, Asteroid discoverer, Comet McNaught-Hartley, Great Comet of 2007
Robert H. McNaught (born in Scotland in 1956) is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the...
Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple

male, deceased (2004)
icy dirtball, dirty snowball, Occidental College alumni, Cometdiscoverer, astrophysical journal, Planetary scientist…Asteroid discoverer
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in "Astrophysical Journal " from...
Max Wolf

Max Wolf

male, deceased (1932)
Supernova discoverer, Cometdiscoverer, 43P/Wolf-Harrington, Asteroid discoverer, astrophotography, Ph.D.
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer, a pioneer of astrophotography. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1888 he was...

Paul Wild

male
Astronomer, Swiss, asteroid, Asteroid discoverer, Swiss astronomer, Cometdiscoverer…Supernova discoverer
Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.
Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Carolyn S. Shoemaker

female, 80 years old
Cometdiscoverer, Northern Arizona University, Eugene Shoemaker, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, James Craig Watson Medal, From Chico, California…Asteroid discoverer
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born June 24, 1929) is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and is the widow of the late Eugene Shoemaker....
Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard

male, deceased (1923)
Vanderbilt University, craters of the Moon named after them, American, Astronomer, Cometdiscoverer, Barnard's star
Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 - February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer. He was commonly known as E. E. Barnard, and was...
Zhang Yuzhe

Zhang Yuzhe

male, deceased (1986)
Tsinghua University alumni, Cometdiscoverer, National Central University, Asteroid discoverer, tsinghua university, mandarin
Zhang Yuzhe (1902 - 1986), or Yu-Che Chang in English, was a Chinese astronomer. He was born in Minhou, in Fujian province. In 1919 he entered...