Robert Emden

Robert Emden

male, deceased (1940)
Jacob Robert Emden was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist. He was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1907 he became associate professor of...
Herbert Gursky

Herbert Gursky

male, deceased (2006)
Herbert Gursky (May 27, 1930, Bronx, New York - December 1, 2006) was the Superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division...
Thebe Medupe

Thebe Medupe

male
Thebe Medupe is a South African astrophysicist and founding director of Astronomy Africa. He is perhaps best known for his work on the "Cosmic...
Jacob Bekenstein

Jacob Bekenstein

male, 62 years old
Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947) is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of...
Iosif Shklovsky

Iosif Shklovsky

male, deceased (1985)
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. His last name is sometimes given as Shklovskii or Shklovskij, and...
Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

male
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese-American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is in charge of data production for the RXTE Guest...
Typhoon Lee

Typhoon Lee

male
Typhoon Lee is an astrophysicist and geochemist at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China, where he specializes in isotope geochemistry and...
Jan Oort

Jan Oort

male, deceased (1992)
Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28, 1900, Franeker - November 5, 1992, Leiden) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. He stimulated radio...

Gregory Wright

male
Gregory W. Wright is an astrophysicist and independent consultant with Antiope Associates. On September 2, 2004, an article co-authored by...
Henry Gale

Henry Gale

male, deceased (1942)
Henry Gordon Gale (September 12, 1874 - November 16, 1942) was an American astrophysicist and author.