Regiomontanus

Regiomontanus

male, deceased (1476)
Unfinden, Walhalla enshrinee, Königsberg in der Neumark, German, Astrologer, kaliningrad…Astronomer
Johannes Müller von Königsberg, known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He wa...
Aristarchus Of Samos

Aristarchus Of Samos

male
geocentric, geocentric model, from the North Aegean, earth, hypothesis, craters of the Moon named after them…Greek and Roman astronomer, Astronomer
Aristarchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He was the first person to present an...

Robert Wilson

male, deceased (2002)
durham, Alumni of Durham University, Fellow of the Royal Society, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British, Corona…Astronomer
Sir Robert Wilson (16 April, 1927 - 2 September, 2002) FRS, CBE, Kt, the son of a Durham miner studied physics at King's College, Durham and...
George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale

male, deceased (1938)
palomar observatory, craters of the Moon named after them, from Chicago, solar, journalist, california institute of technology…Astronomer
George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 - February 21 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory...
Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius

male, deceased (1744)
Laponia, scale, French, Uppsala University alumni, swedish, uppsala university…Astronomer
Anders Celsius (November 27, 1701 - April 25, 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy...

Ole Rømer

male, deceased (1710)
Ole Christensen Rømer, University of Copenhagen alumni, Danish, From Copenhagen, measurement, speed of light…Astronomer
Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. In the scientific l...
Halton Arp

Halton Arp

male, 82 years old
Intrinsic redshift, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Fringe physics, Halton Christian Arp, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Carnegie Institution of Washington…Astronomer
Halton Christian Arp is an American astronomer mainly known for Intrinsic redshift and as a main critic of the Standard cosmology. He was born...
John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams

male, deceased (1892)
Tripos Wranglers, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, galle, mathematician, asteroid, British…Astronomer
John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in...
Aryabhata

Aryabhata

male, deceased (550)
Aryabhatta-siddhanta, Brahmagupta, Indian mathematics, Ancient Indian mathematician, Bhāskara I, Aryabhatiya…Medieval astronomer, Astronomer
Aryabhata was the first in the line of brilliant mathematician-astronomers of classical Indian mathematics, whose major work was the "Aryabhatiya"...
Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin

female, 81 years old
Harvard University, Yale, Master's Degree, peer review, Ph.D., Vassar College alumni…Astronomer
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as...