Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…Astronomer
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

male, deceased (1996)
scientist, Astronomer, agnostic, astrobiologist, Seti, Science writer…American astronomer
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural...
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…Astronomer
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...
Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
physics, scientific revolution, physicist, From Tuscany, Italian, Astronomer
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

male, deceased (1630)
physics, planet, eponym, telescopic, Harmonices Mundi, 17th century…Astronomer
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century...
Phil Plait

Phil Plait

male
Death from the Skies, Philip Plait, Badastronomy.com, The Bad Astronomer, Science blogger, Sonoma State University…Astronomer
Philip Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer who runs the website Badastronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy...
Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe

male, deceased (1601) (Greenwich, United States)
Lutheran, New Latin author, American English, British English, University of Rostock, Danish…Astronomer
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman from the region of Scania (in modern-day Sweden), best known today as an early...
William Herschel

William Herschel

male, deceased (1822)
Jewish, Songwriter, German-English, craters of the Moon named after them, From Bath, From Slough…Astronomer
Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (15 November 1738-25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for...
Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble

male, deceased (1953)
Edwin Powell Hubble, from Wheaton, Illinois, craters of the Moon named after them, From Louisville, Kentucky, From Louisville, Master's Degree…Astronomer
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in...
Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore

male, 86 years old
Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, World War II, Legion of Frontiersmen member, KBE, British Military, Order of the British Empire…Amateur astronomer, Astronomer
Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, KBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March, 1923), known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has...