Maurice Loewy

Maurice Loewy

male, deceased (1907)
Maurice (Moritz) Loewy was a French astronomer. Born in Mariánské Lázne, in what is now the Czech Republic, Loewy's Jewish parents moved to Vie...

Giovanni Battista Zupi

male, deceased (1650)
Giovanni Battista Zupi or "Zupus" ("circa" 1590-1650) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest. He was born in Catanzaro. In...
Elia Millosevich

Elia Millosevich

male, deceased (1919)
Elia Filippo Francesco Giuseppe Maria Millosevich (September 5 1848, Venice–December 5 1919, Rome), also known as Ilija Milošević, was an Ital...

Richard Dunthorne

male, deceased (1775)
Richard Dunthorne (1711--March 3, 1775) was a British amateur astronomer. Dunthorne was born in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. He worked as head of a...
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt

Karl Georg Christian von Staudt

male, deceased (1867)
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt was a German mathematician born in the Imperial Free City of Rothenburg, which is now called Rothenburg ob der...

Dorothy Woolfolk

female, deceased (2000)
Dorothy A. Woolfolk née Dorothy Roubicek (October 11, 1913 - November 27, 2000, Norfolk, Virginia, United States), was a pioneering woman in the A...

Johann Karl Burckhardt

male, deceased (1825)
Johann Karl Burckhardt (April 30, 1773 - June 22, 1825) was a German-born astronomer and mathematician who later became a naturalized French citizen.

Wallace John Eckert

male, deceased (1971)
Wallace John Eckert (June 19, 1902 - August 24, 1971) was an astronomer, and Director of the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at...

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...

Alfred Harker

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...