Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle

male, deceased (2001)
FRS, Sir Frederick Hoyle, Geoffrey Hoyle, University of Cambridge, From West Yorkshire, Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge…Astronomer
Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (born on June 24, 1915 in Gilstead, Yorkshire, England - August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…Astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

male
Astrologer, craters of the Moon named after them, Astronomer, trigonometry, astrolabe, antiquity…Greek and Roman astronomer
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...
Charles Messier

Charles Messier

male, deceased (1817)
Astronomer, nebula, French, catalogue, solar eclipse, lorraine
Charles Messier was a French astronomer who in 1774 published a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of...
Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

male
death by starvation, circumference of the earth, Geometer, Egyptian, Hellenistic Egyptian, Librarian of Alexandria…Greek and Roman astronomer, Astronomer
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...
Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell

male, deceased (1916)
Flagstaff, Astronomer, Harvard University alumni, Asteroid discoverer, Lowell family, Pluto
Percival Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell...
John Herschel

John Herschel

male, deceased (1871)
From Slough, Colour blindness, German-English, Sir William Herschel, Tripos Wranglers, uranus…Astronomer
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792-May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and...
Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh

male, deceased (1997)
Space burials, University of Kansas alumni, from LaSalle County, Illinois, American, University of Kansas, from Kansas…Astronomer
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle...
Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley

male, deceased (1742)
Old Pauline, Old Paulines, Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Anglican, Geophysicist…Astronomer
Edmond Halley FRS (sometimes "Edmund", November 8, 1656 - January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist,...
Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

male, deceased (1695)
law of motion, Newton's laws of motion, Dutch Christian, New Latin author, Dutch music theorist, titan…Astronomer, Astronomer and Physicist
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English : ; in Dutch:) (April 14, 1629 - July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born...