Michel Mayor

Michel Mayor

male, 67 years old
Gliese 581 c, Balzan Prize, 51 Pegasi b, Shaw Prize, High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy…Astronomer
Michel G. E. Mayor (born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva. Together with Didier...
Nevil Maskelyne

Nevil Maskelyne

male, deceased (1811)
Purton, English, wiltshire, Astronomers Royal, British, Fellow of the Royal Society…Astronomer Royal, Astronomer
The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne (October 6, 1732 - February 9, 1811) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811....
Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

male, deceased (1449)
Turko-Persian Tradition, Islamic mathematics, Turco-Persian, Islamic astronomy, Timurid Empire, mirza…Medieval astronomer, Astronomer
Ulugh Beg (c1393 or 1394 in Sultaniyeh (Persia) - October 27, 1449) was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His...
Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
musician, Astronomer, Peripatetic school, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Islamic mathematics, abbasid
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...
Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon

female, deceased (1941)
Edward C. Pickering, Wellesley College alumni, American, scientist, Astronomer, stellar classification
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 - April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloguing work was instrumental in the development of...

Alan Hale

male, 51 years old
Comet discoverer, New Mexico State University, Tachikawa, Deep Space Network, Comet Hale-Bopp, Voyager 2…Astronomer
Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American astronomer. Hale was born in Tachikawa, Japan, in 1958, but grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He served in...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speed of light, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Medieval astronomer, Astronomer
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy

male, 55 years old
Astronomer, HD209458b, 55 Cancri, Shaw Prize, Gliese 436, 51 Pegasi b
Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
rubaiyaa, Omar al-Khayyami, Arabic mathematics, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, Islamic mathematics, heliocentric…Astronomer
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...
Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

male, deceased (1712)
great-grand-son, professor, Sidera Lodoicea, Panzano Observatory, differential rotation, saturn…Astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625-September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as...