- male, deceased (1883)
- Édouard Albert Roche was a French scientist, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. He gave his name to the concepts o...
- male, deceased (1914)
- George William Hill (March 3, 1838 - April 16, 1914), was a U.S. astronomer and mathematician. Hill was born in New York City, New York, and moved...
- male
- Alfred Harker was the first man to successfully determine the distance between the Earth and the moon to within a tenth of a mile. This discovery...
- male, 67 years old
- Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
- male, 73 years old
- Prof Sjur Refsdal (born December 30, 1935) is a Norwegian astrophysicist, born in Oslo. He is best known for his pioneer work on gravitational...
- male
- Ezra T. Newman is an American physicist well known for his many contributions to general relativity. He is known to his colleagues as "Ted". Newman...
- male, deceased (2005)
- Dennis Walsh (12 June 1933 - 1 June 2005) was a British astronomer, born into a poor family in Manchester, England. He was best known for his...
- male, 59 years old
- Richard Ellis FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)....
- male, deceased (2007)
- Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars. Paczyński was born in Vi...
- male (Italy)
- Claudio Maccone is a space scientist born in Turin (Torino), Italy, on February 6, 1948. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Mathematics of...
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