Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell

male, deceased (1957)
Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923,...
Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt

male, 79 years old
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars. Schmidt was born...
David Malin

David Malin

male, 68 years old
David Malin (born 28 March 1941) is a British-Australian astronomer and photographer. Malin trained as a chemist and originally worked in England...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

female, deceased (1921)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4 1868 - December 12 1921) was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational church minister. She...
Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington

male, deceased (1944)
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944) was an astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the...

Robert Jackson

male, 60 years old
Robert Earl Jackson (born 1949) is a scientist, who, with Sandra M. Faber, in 1976 discovered the Faber-Jackson relation between the luminosity of...
Norman Robert Pogson

Norman Robert Pogson

male, deceased (1891)
Norman Robert Pogson was a British astronomer. He was born at Nottingham, England. By the time he was 18 years old, he had computed the orbits of...
George Ogden Abell

George Ogden Abell

male, deceased (1983)
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927-October 7 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA. He has been admired as a research astronomer, as an inspiring teacher,...
Olin Chaddock Wilson

Olin Chaddock Wilson

male, deceased (1994)
Olin Chaddock Wilson (January 13, 1909 - July 13, 1994) was an American astronomer best known for his work as a stellar spectroscopist. Born in San...