John Herschel

John Herschel

male, deceased (1871)
From Slough, Colour blindness, German-English, Sir William Herschel, Tripos Wranglers, uranus…Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order, Royal Guelphic Order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Society of London, RoyalAstronomicalSociety
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792-May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and...
Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle

male, deceased (2001)
FRS, Sir Frederick Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle, University of Cambridge, From West Yorkshire, Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge…Fellow of the Royal Society, Council of the Royal Society, RoyalAstronomicalSociety
Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (born on June 24, 1915 in Gilstead, Yorkshire, England - August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British...

Michael Rowan-Robinson

male
Astronomer, Herschel Space Observatory, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Gresham College, RoyalAstronomicalSociety, Swire
Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and head of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department...
Arthur Milne

Arthur Milne

male, deceased (1950)
Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the Royal Society, RoyalAstronomicalSociety, hull, general relativity
Edward Arthur Milne FRS (February 14 1896 - September 21 1950) was a British mathematician and astrophysicist. Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire,...
Benny Peiser

Benny Peiser

male
Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, Academic of Liverpool John Moores University, CCNet, environmental change, Spaceguard…RoyalAstronomicalSociety, international astronomical union
Benny Peiser is a social anthropologist with particular research interest in human and cultural evolution. His research focuses on the effects of...
Chandra Wickramasinghe

Chandra Wickramasinghe

male, 70 years old
Old Royalist, professor, Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, abiogenesis, Interstellar Space, Panspermia…RoyalAstronomicalSociety, Royal Society of Arts
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 20 January 1939) is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the...
Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh

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

Hugh Ross

male, 64 years old
Christian apologist, Christian, ministry, creationist, Old Earth creationism, Religious ministry…RoyalAstronomicalSociety
Hugh Norman Ross (born July 24, 1945) is a Canadian-born Old Earth creationist and Christian apologist. An astronomer by training, he has...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

female, 66 years old
Dame of the British Empire, astrophysics, DBE, Academic, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Educator…RoyalAstronomicalSociety, Religious Society of Friends, Fellow of the Royal Society
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS FRAS, Ph.D (born as Susan Jocelyn Bell, 15 July 1943) is anastrophysicist, who, as a postgraduate student,...