Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell

male, deceased (1957)
luminosity, stellarevolution, LS coupling, Astronomer, American, hertzsprung-russell diagram…Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy
Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923,...
George Gamow

George Gamow

male, deceased (1968)
physicist, 1904-1968, University of California, Berkeley, quantum tunneling, Russian, University of Colorado…stellarevolution, stellar nucleosynthesis
George Gamow (March 4, 1904 - August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian born theoretical physicist...

Guillermo Gonzalez

male, 46 years old
Discovery Institute campaigns, ISCID fellow, signatory of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism", havana, stellarevolution, Center for Science and Culture
Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is an astrophysicist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa...
Frank Shu

Frank Shu

male
University of California, San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, giant molecular cloud core, university president, spiral density wave, evolution of star…stellarevolution
Frank Shu (born in Kunming, China), is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, San Diego and the...
Martin Schwarzschild

Martin Schwarzschild

male, deceased (1997)
Jewish, Astronomer, German-American, German, scientist, Astrophysicist…stellarevolution, stellar structure
Martin Schwarzschild (May 31 1912 - April 10 1997) was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and...
Icko Iben

Icko Iben

male
PhD, Astronomer, American, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Distinguished Professor, stellarevolution
Icko Iben, Jr. is an American astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Iben received his PhD...
George Herbig

George Herbig

male, 89 years old
ph.d, PhD, interstellar medium, variable star, Herbig-Haro object, diffuse interstellar band…stellarevolution
George Howard Herbig (born January 2 1920) is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. He received his Ph.D in 1948 at...
Leon Mestel

Leon Mestel

male, 82 years old
Institute for Advanced Study, emeritus professor, weizmann institute, Astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Society, east london…stellarevolution, stellar structure
Leon Mestel is a British astronomer who has won both the Eddington Medal (1993) and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2002). He was...
James Hopwood Jeans

James Hopwood Jeans

male, deceased (1946)
Wilson's Grammar School, Wilson's School, Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Camberwell, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old Merchant Taylor…stellarevolution
Sir James Hopwood Jeans (September 11 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire - September 16 1946 in Dorking, Surrey) was a British physicist, astronomer and...

Bohdan Paczyński

male, deceased (2007)
Princeton University faculty, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Warsaw University alumni, vilnius, Wilno…stellarevolution
Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars. Paczyński was born in Vi...