Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi

male, 89 years old
Chushiro Hayashi is a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him. He won the Eddington Medal in...
Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish

male, 85 years old
Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow...
Alan Guth

Alan Guth

male, 62 years old
Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory...

Herbert Friedman

male, deceased (2000)
Herbert Friedman died of cancer at his home in Arlington, Virginia, on 9 September 2000, at the age of eighty four. He was a pioneer in the...
William Alfred Fowler

William Alfred Fowler

male, deceased (1995)
William Alfred "Willie" Fowler (August 9, 1911 - March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. He should not be confused with the British...
Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown

male, deceased (2002)
Robert Hanbury Brown AC (31 August, 1916 - 16 January, 2002) was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He studied...
Richard Tousey

Richard Tousey

male, deceased (1997)
Richard Tousey (May 18 1908 - April 15 1997) was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space. He won the...
Leon Mestel

Leon Mestel

male, 82 years old
Leon Mestel is a British astronomer who has won both the Eddington Medal (1993) and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2002). He was...
Richard Q. Twiss

Richard Q. Twiss

male, deceased (2005)
Richard Q. Twiss (1920 - 20 May, 2005) is famous for his work on the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect with Robert Hanbury Brown. This led to the...
Icko Iben

Icko Iben

male
Icko Iben, Jr. is an American astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Iben received his PhD...