- Khaosai Galaxy
Khaosai Galaxy (real name: Sura Saenkham was one of the sport of boxing's greatest champions ever, and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Petchaboon, Thailand, Saenkham was a world champion in the sport of Muay Thai in the early 1980s. As he became popular in his native Thailand, he did as many of his famous countrymen did, and adopted a "catchier" name. He has been known as Khaosai Galaxy ever since.
- Kaokor Galaxy
Nirote Saenkham in Petchaboon, Thailand, is the twin brother of boxing star Khaosai Galaxy and twice world champion in his own right. Like his brother, Nirote Saenkham started his career in the sport of kickboxing and later switched to orthodox boxing. After becoming a sports star in his native country, he followed a long-standing Thai custom of adopting an attention-getting pseudonym and thus became known as Kaokor Galaxy.
- Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is a noted American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited "Galaxy" magazine and its sister magazine "if", winning the Hugo for "if" three years running. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
- Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name: Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a fictional character from the "Star Wars" galaxy. He first appeared in Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn trilogy" of novels, which are set five years after the time of "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi". Thrawn was his public "core" name, reminiscent of the English word "thrawn", meaning "twisted or crooked", …
- Jabba
Jabba is a television personality who first made a name for himself as part of the launch of subscription television in Australia in 1995. He was a host for music television station "Red" on the now-defunct Galaxy subscription television network, before the channel changed its name to Channel [V].
- Michel Mayor
Michel G. E. Mayor (born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva. Together with Didier Queloz in 1995 he discovered the first extrasolar planet, 51 Pegasi B, orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. After studying Physics at the University of Lausanne Mayor obtained his doctorate in Astronomy at the Geneva Observatory in 1971. Among other places, he worked at the observatory at Cambridge, …
- Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18 1926 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American astronomer.
- Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars. Schmidt was born in Groningen, (The Netherlands) and studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. from Leiden Observatory in 1956. In 1959 he emigrated to the United States and went to work at the California Institute of Technology. In the beginning he worked at theories about the mass distribution and dynamics of galaxies.
- Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975.
- Scott Tremaine
Scott Tremaine completed his BSc. at McMaster University in 1971, then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 1981 to 1985 he was in the Department of Physics at MIT as an Associate Professor.
- William Huggins
Sir William Huggins, OM, FRS (February 7 1824 - May 12 1910) was a British astronomer. William Huggins was born at Cornhill, Middlesex in 1824 and was the husband of Margaret Lindsay Huggins, a capable astronomer in her own right. She encouraged her husband's photography and helped to systemise their research. He built a private observatory at 90 Upper Tulse Hill, …
- Neil Ross
Neil Ross (born December 31, 1944) (sometimes credited as Neilson Ross) is a British voice actor and announcer, now resident and working in Los Angeles, in the United States. He has provided voices for (mainly minor characters) in many American cartoons, particularly those based on Hasbro products and Marvel Comics, and numerous video games. Ross has also provided voice roles (such as radio announcers) for many movies, …
- Mordehai Milgrom
Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. He is most famous for his proposal of Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxies rotation curves problem, in 1981. Milgrom suggests that Newton's Second Law be modified for very small accelerations. Milgrom is married and has three daughters.
- Mark Clifton
Mark Clifton (1906 - 1963) was an American author and businessman. He wrote science fiction and most of his stories fit into one of two series. The "Bossy" sequence, was written alone and in collaboration with both Alex Apostolides and Frank Riley. The "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is lighter in tone was mostly written solo, including the novel "When They Come From Space" although there was one collaboration with Apostolides.
- Ed Emshwiller
Ed Emshwiller (also known as "Emsh was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering computer-generated movies. Born in Lansing, Michigan, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947, then studied at École des Beaux Arts (1949-1950) in Paris with his wife, the award-winning writer Carol Emshwiller (née Fries), whom he married on August 30, 1949, …
- Donald Lynden-Bell
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (born Dover, England April 5 1935) is a British astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. Lynden-Bell has been the president of the Royal Astronomical Society. He currently works at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge; he was the Institute's first director.
- Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin was a science fiction editor. Born with dwarfism, she was a fan and regular attendee at science fiction conventions and worked her way up the publishing ladder, starting with work at the SF magazine "Galaxy". Judy-Lynn was friends with Lester del Rey and after the death of his third wife married him. After moving to Ballantine Books, she revitalized the publisher's once-prominent science fiction line there, …
- Stephen Tall
Stephen Tall was the most common pseudonym of American science fiction writer Compton Newby Crook (June 14 1908 – January 1981, Baltimore, Maryland). Crook was also a professor at Towson University and a long-time resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Crook's early writing, published under his own name, began appearing in 1930, but he didn't begin to publish science fiction until 1955 with the appearance of "The Lights on Precipice Peak" in "Galaxy".
- Gray Morrow
Gray Morrow (March 7, 1934 - November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of paperback books and comics. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he is best known as art director of "Spider-Man" between 1967 and 1970 and as illustrator of the syndicated "Tarzan", "Buck Rogers", "Flash Gordon" and "Prince Valiant" comic strips, among others.
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4 1868 - December 12 1921) was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational church minister. She was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts to an old Massachusetts Puritan family who had settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early part of the seventeenth century.
- R. Brent Tully
R. Brent Tully is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tully's specialty is astrophysics of galaxies. He, along with J. Richard Fisher, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, "A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies", published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 54, No. 3, in February, 1977.
- Mike Barr
Mike Barr (born December 8, 1978) is a American football punter for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He attended Rutgers University, where he finished as one of the best Rutgers punters in school history. Since then, he has had experience in both the Washington Redskins and N.Y. Jets training camps in 2003 and has been playing with the Frankfurt Galaxy NFL Europa. He has been signed by the Steelers every year since 2004, but has been released and allocated to Galaxy every time.
- Raymond F. Jones
Raymond F(isher) Jones (November 15, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah - January 24, 1994, Sandy, Utah) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel, "This Island Earth", which was adapted into the 1955 film "This Island Earth". Jones' career was at its peak during the 1940s and '50s. His stories were mostly published in the pulp magazines, such as "Thrilling Wonder Stories", "Astounding Stories", and "Galaxy".
- Bertil Lindblad
Bertil Lindblad (Örebro November 26 1895 - Saltsjöbaden (outside Stockholm) June 25 1965) was a Swedish astronomer. After finishing his secondary education at Örebro högre allmänna läroverk, Lindblad matriculated at Uppsala University in 1914. He received his "filosofie magister" degree in 1917, his "filosofie licentiat" degree in 1918 and completed his doctorate and became a docent at the university in 1920.
- Boris Blenn
Boris Blenn is a psychedelic trance artist from Germany. He is most famous for his project Electric Universe. Additionally, he was part of Endora, Galaxy, Jupiter 8000 and Rainbow Spirit. Boris has been monitored in 1995 in Hamburg Germany working prodigiously in an upper floor flat with a room full of instruments. He was busy recording and sampling a live musician who played many different ethnic instruments from around the world.
- Eric Becklin
Eric E. Becklin is an American astrophysicist, best known for his pioneering study of infra-red sources at the center of our galaxy. Becklin received his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. A faculty member since 1989, Becklin is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. Named SOFIA Chief Scientist in 1996, he was the first director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at Mauna Kea, …
- Gustav Tammann
Dr. Gustav Tammann was the director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland, European Space Agency member of the Space Telescope Advisory Team and Member of Council of the European Southern Observatory. His research interests include supernovae and the extragalactic distance scale. Professor Tammann is a former President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Galaxies. He received the Albert Einstein Medal for his achievements.
- Adar Tallon
In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Adar Tallon was a military instructor and commander for the Galactic Republic, Rebel Alliance and New Republic. Admiral Tallon was a brilliant tactician who fought during the Clone Wars alongside the Jedi and the forces of Alderaan. A veteran soldier, it was Tallon who spoke to many new recruits about the brutal realities of war. His starship tactics, such as those at the Battle of Balamak, had a heavy influence, …
- Andrew J. Offutt
Andrew Jefferson Offutt (born August 16, 1934 in Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offut. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has his name in all lower-case letters. His son is the author Chris Offutt. Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story "And Gone Tomorrow" in "If".
- William G. Tifft
William G. Tifft is Emeritus Professor/Astronomer at the University of Arizona. His main interests are in galaxies, superclusters and what Tifft calls redshift problems (see redshift quantization). He was influential in the development of the first redshift surveys and was an early proponent of manned space astronomy, conducted at a proposed moon base for example. He has an A.B. in Astronomy from Harvard University (1954), …
- Annette Ferguson
Annette Ferguson is a Scottish observational astronomer who specializes in the area of galaxy evolution. She is currently a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching, Germany, Her research focuses on conducting observations of stars and interstellar gas in nearby galaxies to gain insights to the formation and evolution of systems in our own Milky Way. Much of her recent work has focused on the Andromeda galaxy, …
- John J. Pierce
John J. Pierce (born 1941) was an American science fiction editor. Pierce began editing the fanzine "Renaissance" in the 1960s and was a critic of the New Wave. In 1977, he was named editor of "Galaxy" during a time when the magazine was undergoing a decline following the editorship of Jim Baen. After leaving "Galaxy", Pierce focused on his series of critical books, "A Study in Imagination and Evolution", …
- Robert Julius Trumpler
Robert Julius Trumpler was a Swiss-American astronomer. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland and obtained his early education in that country. He then studied in Germany where he earned his Ph.D. in 1910. In 1915, during World War I he emigrated to the United States, and joined the University of California. He took a position at Allegheny Observatory, and later went to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Ejler Jakobsson
Ejler Jakobsson was a Finnish-born science fiction editor. Jakobsson moved to the United States in 1926 and began a career as an author in the 1930s. He worked on "Astonishing Stories" and "Super Science Stories" briefly before they shut down production due to paper shortages. When "Super Science Stories" was revived in 1949, Jakobson was named editor until it ended publication two years later.
- Christopher Conselice
Christopher Conselice is an American lecturer at the University of Nottingham. Conselice received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1996 and his PhD in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. He specializes in the formation and evolution of galaxies and their structural parameters - the so-called CAS parameters (Concentration, Asymmetry, and Smoothness).
- Hayford Peirce
Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942, Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received his BA from Harvard College. He has written numerous short stories for the science-fiction magazines "Analog", "Galaxy", and "Omni", as well as mystery shorts for "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine".
- Alexei Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko born in Oakland, CA) is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko received his B.A. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths. He was a member of both of the teams (first the Supernova Cosmology Project, …
- Sydney J. van Scyoc
Sydney J. van Scyoc (born July 27, 1939) is an American science fiction writer. Her first published story was "Shatter the Wall" in "Galaxy" in 1962. She continued to write short stories throughout the 1960s and in 1971, published her first novel, "Saltflower". Other novels followed until 1992, when she turned her back on writing to make and sell jewelry. Retired now, she gardens and has begun to write science fiction again.
- F. L. Wallace
F. L. Wallace, sometimes credited as Floyd Wallace, was a noted science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1915, and died in Tustin, California, in 2004. Wallace spent most of his life in California as a writer and mechanical engineer after attending the University of Iowa. His first published story, "Accidental Flight," appeared in "Galaxy Magazine".