George Coyne

George Coyne

male, 76 years old
Member of ISSR, Irish-American, religious figure, George V. Coyne, S.J, Vatican Observatory, American…Astronomer
George V. Coyne, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory’s research group wh...
Chandra Wickramasinghe

Chandra Wickramasinghe

male, 70 years old
Old Royalist, professor, Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, abiogenesis, Interstellar Space, Panspermia…Astronomer
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (born 20 January 1939) is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the...
Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion

male, deceased (1925)
op. cit, "spiritism is not a religion but a science", spiritualism, science fiction, evolutionary theory, triton…Astronomer
Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer and author. His full name is sometimes (rarely) given as Nicolas Camille Flammarion. He was a prolific...
Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco

female
Rings of Neptune, Planetary scientist, rings of Saturn, Cassini mission, American, Neptune…Astronomer
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission <sup>,<;/sup> <sup>,<;/sup>...
Ken Croswell

Ken Croswell

male
majoring, Planet Quest, The Alchemy of the Heavens, Academic major, Milky Way, new scientist…Astronomer
Ken Croswell is an astronomer and author living in Berkeley, California. His first degree mixed science and wider interests, majoring in physics...
Karl Schwarzschild

Karl Schwarzschild

male, deceased (1916)
Relativists, physicist, Jules Henri Poincaré, Schwarzschild-exponent, Frankfurt am Main, potsdam…Astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild. He was born in Frankfurt am...
Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Kuiper

male, deceased (1973)
Leiden University alumni, Tuitjenhorn, naturalized, uranus, naturalized citizen of the United States, Dutch American…Astronomer
Gerard Peter Kuiper, born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (Dec 7 1905, Harenkarspel (Tuitjenhorn) - Dec 23 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch American astronomer...
Giuseppe Piazzi

Giuseppe Piazzi

male, deceased (1826)
from the Province of Sondrio, magnitude, mathematician, monk, Asteroid discoverer, Italian…Astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi (July 7 1746 - July 22 1826) was an Italian Theatine monk, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and...
Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius

male, deceased (1687)
Halophänomen, Elisabeth Koopmann, Jan III Sobieski, halo, Mayor, Royal Society…Astronomer
Johannes Hevelius in 1651 and later mayor of Danzig; but from 1639 onward his chief interest became centered in astronomy. In 1641 he built an...
Henry Draper

Henry Draper

male, deceased (1882)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, American, Astronomer, Doctor, New York University, american philosophical society
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20 1882) was an American doctor and astronomer. Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an...