Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
physicist, classical mechanics, laws of motion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, celestialmechanics, sir isaac newton…celestial
Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, ma...

Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…celestialmechanics
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…celestialmechanics
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
Joseph Louis Lagrange

Joseph Louis Lagrange

male, deceased (1813)
from the Kingdom of Sardinia, from the Province of Turin, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Count of the First French Empire, Italian-French, French…celestialmechanics, Analytical mechanics, classical mechanics
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l'Empire (January 25, 1736 - April 10, 1813; b. Turin, baptised in the name of "Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia") was...
Tom van Flandern

Tom van Flandern

male, 69 years old
Yale University, Fringe physics, celestialmechanics, Washington, D. C., Doctor of Philosophy, How
Tom Charles Van Flandern (born Cleveland, Ohio, 1940) is an astronomer who specializes in celestial mechanics. He received a PhD at Yale University...
Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Le Verrier

male, deceased (1877)
Astronomer, mathematician, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, French, Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni, Neptune…celestialmechanics
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (March 11, 1811 - September 23, 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics. He worked at...
Jean Meeus

Jean Meeus

male, 81 years old
Leuven alumni before 1968, university of leuven, flemish, Jan Meeus, 2213 Meeus, celestialmechanics
Jean Meeus (born 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. He is sometimes known as Jan Meeus. The asteroid 2213 Meeus is...
Dirk Brouwer

Dirk Brouwer

male, deceased (1966)
Yale University, New Haven, dutch, Astronomer, Dutch American, leiden university…celestialmechanics, Methods of Celestial Mechanics
Dirk Brouwer (Sep 1 1902, Rotterdam - Jan 31 1966, New Haven) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University...
E. T. Whittaker

E. T. Whittaker

male, deceased (1956)
Old Mancunian, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, special functions, celestialmechanics, convert to Roman Catholicism, Trinity College, Dublin
Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October1873 - 24 March1956) was an English mathematician, who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical...
Benjamin Peirce

Benjamin Peirce

male, deceased (1880)
Christian, Harvard University, professor, mathematician, librarian, Number theorist…celestialmechanics
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made co...