Tarmo Oja

Tarmo Oja

male
Tarmo Oja is a professor in astronomy at Uppsala University who studies galactic structure and variable stars. An asteroid, 5080 Oja, is named...
Vance Kirkland

Vance Kirkland

male, deceased (1981)
Vance Kirkland (1904-1981) was a mysterious, visionary Colorado painter who came from Ohio to become founding Director of the University of Denver...
Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan

Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan

male, deceased (1923)
Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in the literature, but this is apparently erroneous. He...
Frederick Hanley Seares

Frederick Hanley Seares

male, deceased (1964)
Frederick Hanley Seares was an American astronomer. He worked at Mount Wilson Observatory and won the Bruce Medal in 1940. Seares was born in...
Edwin Foster Coddington

Edwin Foster Coddington

male, deceased (1950)
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer. He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by the older designation...
Emma Vyssotsky

Emma Vyssotsky

female, deceased (1975)
Emma Vyssotsky (23 October, 1894 - May, 1975), born Emma T. R. Williams in Philadelphia, was an American astronomer. She received her Ph.D. in...
William Hammond Wright

William Hammond Wright

male, deceased (1959)
William Hammond Wright (November 4, 1871 - May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer. He was director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942....

Frank John Kerr

male, deceased (2000)
Frank John Kerr (January 8, 1918--September 15, 2000) was an Australian astronomer and physicist who made contributions to human understanding of...

Hank Stine

male, 64 years old
Hank Stine (born Henry Eugene Stein in Sikeston, Missouri 1945) was an American science fiction editor and writer. Hank Stine is understood to be a...

Marian Albertovich Kowalski

male, deceased (1884)
Marian Albertovich Kowalski was a Polish-Russian astronomer. Sometimes his last name is given as Kovalsky or Koval'sky or Koval'skiy. In the...