Russell W. Porter

Russell W. Porter

male, deceased (1949)
Haletelescope, griffith observatory, telescope, Optician, crater, Amateur astronomer…amateur telescope making
Russell Williams Porter (December 13, 1871 - February 22, 1949) was an American amateur astronomer and explorer. He is sometimes referred to as the...

Francis Gladheim Pease

male, deceased (1938)
craters of the Moon named after them, Mount Palomar Observatory, interferometer, moon, yerkes observatory, American…reflecting telescope, Haletelescope
Francis Gladheim Pease (1881-February 7, 1938) was an American astronomer. He joined the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, where he was an observer...

Mark Serrurier

male, deceased (1988)
inventor, Academy Award for Technical Achievement winner, American, jet propulsion laboratory, Alzheimer's disease, Structural engineer…Haletelescope
Mark Serrurier (190?-1988) is the son of Dutch-born electrical engineer, Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924. Mark was a graduate of...
Patrick Taylor

Patrick Taylor

male
Cornell University, goddard space flight center, University of Maryland, College Park, Haletelescope, Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect, YORP effect
Patrick Alan Taylor (born November 25, 1981 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA) is a graduate student at Cornell University in the Astronomy Department...