Ken Croswell

Ken Croswell

male
majoring, Planet Quest, The Alchemy of the Heavens, Academic major, MilkyWay, new scientist
Ken Croswell is an astronomer and author living in Berkeley, California. His first degree mixed science and wider interests, majoring in physics...
Karl Guthe Jansky

Karl Guthe Jansky

male, deceased (1950)
From Norman, Oklahoma, Amateur astronomer, Astronomer, scientist at Bell Labs, from Oklahoma, czech…MilkyWay
Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 - February 14, 1950), was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio...
Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright

male, deceased (1786)
Byers Green, MilkyWay, architect, sunderland, English, navigation
Thomas Wright (1711 - 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. Wright is best known for his...
Jan Oort

Jan Oort

male, deceased (1992)
Leiden University faculty, antenna, second world war, university of leiden, observatory, westerbork…MilkyWay
Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28, 1900, Franeker - November 5, 1992, Leiden) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. He stimulated radio...
Jacobus Kapteyn

Jacobus Kapteyn

male, deceased (1922)
Utrecht University alumni, Retirement, professor, Astronomer, physics, mathematics…MilkyWay
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, (January 19, 1851-June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

female, deceased (1921)
computers, Radcliffe College alumni, computer, Radcliffe College, deaf, American…MilkyWay
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4 1868 - December 12 1921) was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational church minister. She...

Hannes Alfvén

male, deceased (1995)
plasma, Nobel Prize in Physics, magnetohydrodynamics, physicist, professor of electricity (1940-1945), professor of electronics (1945-1963)…MilkyWay
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish plasma physicist who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of ma...
Bertil Lindblad

Bertil Lindblad

male, deceased (1965)
Saltsjöbaden Observatory, filosofie magister, uppsala university, galaxy, stellar, Uppsala University alumni…MilkyWay
Bertil Lindblad (Örebro November 26 1895 - Saltsjöbaden (outside Stockholm) June 25 1965) was a Swedish astronomer. After finishing his secondary ed...
Eric Becklin

Eric Becklin

male (Mountain View, California, United States)
infra-red, University of California, Los Angeles, infrared, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, Ph.D., MilkyWay
Eric E. Becklin is an American astrophysicist, best known for his pioneering study of infra-red sources at the center of our galaxy. Becklin...
Knut Lundmark

Knut Lundmark

male, deceased (1958)
Astronomer, Lundmark, Great Debate, Lund Observatory, Knut Emil Lundmark, Mount Wilson Observatory…MilkyWay
Knut Emil Lundmark (1889-1958), was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929-1955. Lundmark...