Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy

male, 55 years old
Astronomer, HD209458b, 55 Cancri, Shaw Prize, Gliese 436, 51 Pegasi b…astronomicalunit
Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be...
James Gregory

James Gregory

male, deceased (1675)
craters of the Moon named after them, From Aberdeenshire, mathematician, inventor, Polymath, Scottish…astronomicalunit
James Gregory (November 1638 - October 1675), was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was born at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, and died at...
Johann Daniel Titius

Johann Daniel Titius

male, deceased (1796)
Astronomer, German, asteroid, ceres, wittenberg, moon…astronomicalunit
Johann Daniel Titius (January 2 1729 - December 11 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg. He is best known for formulating...

Hans-Emil Schuster

male, 75 years old
3271 Ul, 1978 CA, asteroid, 3908 Nyx, galaxy, astronomicalunit
Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer (retired since October 1991). He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern...