Oskar Backlund

Oskar Backlund

male, deceased (1916)
Västergötland, geodesy, swedish, uppsala university, tartu, mercury…celestialmechanics
Johan Oskar Backlund was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish s...

Charles Lane Poor

male, deceased (1951)
Johns Hopkins University alumni, City College of New York, City University of New York, Lexington, Johns Hopkins University, Astronomer…celestialmechanics
Charles Lane Poor (January 18, 1866 - September 27, 1951) was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of Edward Erie Poor. He graduated from the...
T. A. Heppenheimer

T. A. Heppenheimer

male, 62 years old
Astronomer, aerospace engineering, American, National Space Society, planetary science, celestialmechanics
Thomas A. Heppenheimer (born 1947) is a major space advocate and researcher in planetary science, aerospace engineering, and celestial mechanics....
Julio Garavito Armero

Julio Garavito Armero

male, deceased (1920)
civil engineer, bogota, Optics, celestialmechanics, nine-point circle, Thousand Days War
Julio Garavito Armero was a Colombian astronomer. Born in Bogotá, he was a child prodigy in science and mathematics. He obtained his degrees as m...
Maurice Loewy

Maurice Loewy

male, deceased (1907)
Astronomer, asteroid, French, orbit, longitude, moon…celestialmechanics
Maurice (Moritz) Loewy was a French astronomer. Born in Mariánské Lázne, in what is now the Czech Republic, Loewy's Jewish parents moved to Vie...
Mary Watson Whitney

Mary Watson Whitney

female, deceased (1921)
Astronomer, observatory, zurich, vassar college, Harvard, American…celestialmechanics
Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 - January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and for 22 years the head of the Vassar Observatory. Whitney...

Erich Kähler

male, deceased (2000)
mathematician, German, algebraic geometry, Algebraic geometer, geometrical, geometry…celestialmechanics
Erich Kähler was a German mathematician with wide-ranging geometrical interests. Kähler was born in Leipzig, and studied there. He received his Ph...
Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli

male
mathematician, Italian, economics, mathematics, probability, probability theory…celestialmechanics
Francesco Paolo Cantelli (1875-1966) was an Italian mathematician. He was the founder of the "Istituto Italiano degli Attuari" for the applications...
Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

male, deceased (1984)
German rocket scientist in the US, physicist, German-American, technology writer, inventor, German…celestialmechanics
Dr. Krafft Arnold Ehricke (March 24, 1917 - December 11, 1984), was a rocket-propulsion engineer. Born in Berlin, Ehricke believed in space travel...

Miguel Itzigsohn

male
Astronomer, la plata, asteroid, Asteroid discoverer, argentine, argentinian…celestialmechanics
Miguel Itzigsohn was an Argentinian astronomer. He discovered a number of asteroids, and also studied comets. He was a department director at the...