Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
physicist, classical mechanics, laws of motion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, celestial mechanics, sir isaac newton…reflectingtelescope
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...
James Gregory

James Gregory

male, deceased (1675)
craters of the Moon named after them, From Aberdeenshire, mathematician, inventor, Polymath, Scottish…reflectingtelescope, Gregorian telescope
James Gregory (November 1638 - October 1675), was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was born at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, and died at...
Warren de la Rue

Warren de la Rue

male, deceased (1889)
photographer, Phil. Trans, daguerreotype, Canonbury, British Association, wet-collodion…reflectingtelescope
Warren de la Rue was a British astronomer and chemist, most famous for his pioneering work in astronomical photography. Son of Thomas De la Rue,...
Giovanni Battista Amici

Giovanni Battista Amici

male, deceased (1863)
Astronomer, biological, modena, jupiter, biology, satellite…reflectingtelescope
Giovanni Battista Amici (March 25, 1786 - April 10 1863) was an Italian astronomer and microscopist. Amici was born in Modena, Italy. After...
George Hadley

George Hadley

male, deceased (1768)
Fellow of the Royal Society, British, Meteorologist, lunar, lawyer, crater…reflectingtelescope
George Hadley (February 12,1685 - June 28,1768) was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the...
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov

Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov

male, deceased (1964)
Maksutov telescope, Laboratory of Astronomical Optics, Military Engineering College, Russian Astronomical Society, Peter Ivanovich Maksutov, Saint Petersburg, Russia…reflectingtelescope
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov was a Soviet/Russian optician and astronomer. He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Dmitri...
Benjamin Baillaud

Benjamin Baillaud

male, deceased (1934)
Astronomer, telescope, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, saturn, French, University of Paris…refracting telescope, reflectingtelescope
Édouard Benjamin Baillaud was a French astronomer. Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris. He worked as an ass...

Francis Gladheim Pease

male, deceased (1938)
craters of the Moon named after them, Mount Palomar Observatory, interferometer, moon, yerkes observatory, American…reflectingtelescope, Hale telescope
Francis Gladheim Pease (1881-February 7, 1938) was an American astronomer. He joined the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, where he was an observer...
Thomas William Webb

Thomas William Webb

male, deceased (1885)
magdalen college, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, reflectingtelescope, British, refracting telescope, monmouth
The Reverend Thomas William Webb (December 14 1807 - May 19 1885) was a British astronomer. Some sources give his year of birth as 1806. The only...
Edward Knobel

Edward Knobel

male, deceased (1930)
impact crater, Analytical Chemist, Chemist, British, Alumni of Imperial College London, crater…reflectingtelescope
Edward Ball Knobel (21 October 1841 - 25 July 1930) was a British businessman and amateur astronomer. He was born in London, England. He started to...