Charles Greeley Abbot

Charles Greeley Abbot

male, deceased (1973)
Centenarian, craters of the Moon named after them, American, smithsonian institution, Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 Wilton, NH - December 17, 1973, Washington D.C.) was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of...
Arthur Milne

Arthur Milne

male, deceased (1950)
Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, hull, general relativity…Astrophysicist
Edward Arthur Milne FRS (February 14 1896 - September 21 1950) was a British mathematician and astrophysicist. Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire,...

France A. Córdova

female, 62 years old
Stanford University, Science Digest, astrophysics, hispanic magazine, purdue university, ph.d…Astrophysicist
France Anne Córdova is the 11th President of Purdue University.. Córdova graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English an...

Rodney Marks

male, deceased (2000)
physicist, Australian, Poison, Astrophysicist, antarctica, methanol
Rodney Marks (1968-2000) was an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working in Antarctica.
Yoji Kondo

Yoji Kondo

male
Astronomer, New Destinies, Japanese, requiem, astrophysics, aikido…Astrophysicist
Dr. Yoji Kondo is an astrophysicist who also writes science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited "Requiem: New Collected Works by...
Giuseppe Piazzi

Giuseppe Piazzi

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

Vitaly Ginzburg

male, 93 years old
Jewish, Astrophysicist, Theoretical physicist, astrophysics, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the...
Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Kuiper

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

Jacqueline Mitton

female
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Jacqueline Mitton is a Cambridge-trained astronomer and an astrophysicist.
Friedrich Bessel

Friedrich Bessel

male, deceased (1846)
craters of the Moon named after them, Halley's comet, Lalande Prize, Institut de France, Königsberg Observatory, Lilienthal…Astrophysicist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel...