Dave Green

male, 50 years old
Astrophysicist, University of Cambridge, astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory, Churchill College, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Dave Green (born 1959) is an astrophysicist at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK and university lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He...
Vesto Slipher

Vesto Slipher

male, deceased (1969)
Indiana University, Astronomer, from Indiana, Indiana University alumni, Milton Humason, Pluto…Astrophysicist
Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 - November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer. Slipher...
Peter Goldreich

Peter Goldreich

male, 70 years old
California Institute of Technology faculty, 3805 Goldreich, neutron star, helioseismology, Cornell University alumni, Jewish American…Astrophysicist
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He...
Ben R. Oppenheimer

Ben R. Oppenheimer

male
Astrophysicist, Columbia University, upper west side, National Research Council, brown dwarf, adaptive optics
Ben R. Oppenheimer (b. April 1972 in New York City) is an American astrophysicist and one of three curators in the Department of Astrophysics at...
Walter Lewin

Walter Lewin

male
Delft University of Technology alumni, Walter H. G. Lewin, X-ray astronomy, nuclear physics, Post-doctoral, American…Astrophysicist
Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at the...
Julio Navarro

Julio Navarro

male, 47 years old
physicist, dark matter, argentine, Astrophysicist, University of Victoria, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Julio F. Navarro is a professor of Astronomy (Ph.D. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) at the department of Physics and Astronomy in the U...
Rudolph Minkowski

Rudolph Minkowski

male, deceased (1976)
Astronomer, Polish-American, German-American, German, Asteroid discoverer, Jewish person…Astrophysicist
Rudolph Minkowski (born Rudolf Leo Bernhard Minkowski) (May 28 1895 – January 4 1976) was a German-American astronomer. His father was the ph...
Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury

male, deceased (1873)
from Virginia, Astronomer, Cartographer, Geographer, historian, Geologist…Astrophysicist
Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 - February 1, 1873), USN - American astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist,...
Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi

male, 89 years old
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, hertzsprung-russell diagram, Japanese, Eddington Medal, Hayashi track
Chushiro Hayashi is a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him. He won the Eddington Medal in...
George Blumenthal

George Blumenthal

male
University of California, Ph.D., Martin Rees, galaxy clusters, Academic Senate, active galaxies…Astrophysicist
George Blumenthal is an American professor and astronomer and the Acting Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is known...