George van Biesbroeck

George van Biesbroeck

male, deceased (1974)
George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck was a Belgian-American astronomer. He discovered the periodic comet 53P/Van Biesbroeck,...
Otto Heckmann

Otto Heckmann

male, deceased (1983)
Otto Hermann Leopold Heckmann (June 23 1901 - May 13 1983) was a German astronomer. He directed the Hamburg Observatory from 1941 to 1962, after...
Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Carolyn S. Shoemaker

female, 80 years old
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....

Robert B. Leighton

male, deceased (1997)
Robert B. Leighton (September 10, 1919-March 9, 1997) was an American physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of...
Charles T. Kowal

Charles T. Kowal

male, 69 years old
Charles Thomas Kowal (born November 8 1940) is an American astronomer. He discovered two moons of Jupiter: Leda in 1974 and Themisto in 1975,...

David Todd Wilkinson

male, deceased (2002)
David Todd Wilkinson (13 May 1935 - 5 September 2002) was a world-renowned pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the...
Seth Carlo Chandler

Seth Carlo Chandler

male, deceased (1913)
Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (September 16 1846 - December 31 1913) was an American astronomer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. During his last...
Yusuke Hagihara

Yusuke Hagihara

male, deceased (1979)
Yusuke Hagihara was a Japanese astronomer. Hagihara contributed to celestial mechanics and perturbation theory and wrote two lovely books on these...

Jürgen Moser

male, deceased (1999)
Jürgen Moser was a German American mathematician who specialized in dynamical systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 19...

Chester Burleigh Watts

male, deceased (1971)
Chester Burleigh Watts (October 27, 1889 - July 17, 1971) was an American astronomer. He was born in Winchester, Indiana and he attended the...