Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson

male, 73 years old
Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, together with Arno Allan Penzias,...
Samuel Pierpont Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley

male, deceased (1906)
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston) - February 27 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American...
Charles L. Bennett

Charles L. Bennett

male, 53 years old
Dr. Charles L. Bennett (born November 1956) is an American observational astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns...
R. Paul Butler

R. Paul Butler

male
Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets. He has co-discovered two thirds of the approximately 233 extrasolar planets...
Charles Fabry

Charles Fabry

male, deceased (1945)
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an...
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...
Robert W. Wood

Robert W. Wood

male, deceased (1955)
Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Wood was professor of experimental physics at Johns Hopkins...
James Edward Keeler

James Edward Keeler

male, deceased (1900)
James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer. He worked at Lick Observatory beginning in 1888 but was appointed director of the University of...
Ralph Asher Alpher

Ralph Asher Alpher

male, 88 years old
Ralph Asher Alpher (born 1921) is a U.S. cosmologist. Alpher was something of a child prodigy, and at the age of 16 he was offered a scholarship to...
William Hammond Wright

William Hammond Wright

male, deceased (1959)
William Hammond Wright (November 4, 1871 - May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer. He was director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942....