Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell

male, deceased (1916)
Flagstaff, Astronomer, Harvard University alumni, Asteroid discoverer, Lowell family, Pluto…LowellObservatory
Percival Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell...
Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh

male, deceased (1997)
Space burials, University of Kansas alumni, from LaSalle County, Illinois, American, University of Kansas, from Kansas…LowellObservatory
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle...
Marc W. Buie

Marc W. Buie

male
University of Hawaii, Deep Ecliptic Survey, methane, Charon, Albedo, LowellObservatory
Marc W. Buie is an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. He grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and went on to get a B.S. in...
Travis Barman

Travis Barman

male
Astronomer, American, LowellObservatory, HD 209458 b, Heather Knutson
Travis Barman, is an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. While studying a combination of the previously published Hubble Space...
Vesto Slipher

Vesto Slipher

male, deceased (1969)
Indiana University, Astronomer, from Indiana, Indiana University alumni, Milton Humason, Pluto…LowellObservatory
Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 - November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer. Slipher...
Venetia Phair

Venetia Phair

female, 90 years old
Oxford University, natural satellite, Oxford, England, LowellObservatory, Deimos, dwarf planet
Venetia Phair (née Burney was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she w...
A. E. Douglass

A. E. Douglass

male, deceased (1962)
from Vermont, Astronomer, crater, herschel, sequoia, American…LowellObservatory
A. E. (Andrew Ellicott) Douglass (July 5, 1867, Windsor, Vermont - March 20, 1962, Tucson, Arizona) was an American astronomer. He discovered a...
Thomas Jefferson Jackson See

Thomas Jefferson Jackson See

male, deceased (1962)
University of Missouri–Columbia, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, University of Chicago, Astronomer, mathematics, American…United States Naval Observatory, LowellObservatory, Leander McCormick Observatory
Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See. An American Astronomer (born near Montgomery City, Missouri), who received his Ph.D. in mathematics from...
William Lowell Putnam

William Lowell Putnam

male, deceased (1923)
banker, elizabeth, lawyer, Harvard, American, ramkesh…Lowell family, LowellObservatory
William Lowell Putnam II (November 22 1861 - June 1923) (more commonly known as William Putnam, Sr.) was an American lawyer and banker. He...