- male, deceased (1997)
- Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle...
- male, deceased (1932)
- Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer, a pioneer of astrophotography. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1888 he was...
- female
- Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission <sup>,<;/sup> <sup>,<;/sup>...
- male, 84 years old
- Tom Gehrels (born Feb 21 1925, Haarlem) is a Dutch-American astronomer. He helped to set up the Spacewatch program for finding near-Earth...
- male, deceased (2002)
- Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920 - August 24 2002) was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten. Born in The Hague, he spent...
- male, deceased (1925)
- Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau in Austrian Silesia (now in the Czech Republic). He was a prolific discoverer of...
- male, deceased (1979)
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914,...
- male
- John S. Lewis is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. His interests in the chemistry an...
- female
- Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is a Dutch astronomer. In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she...
- male, deceased (1892)
- John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in...
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