Xul Solar

Xul Solar

male, deceased (1963)
painter, modern painter, writer, sculptor, argentine, Constructed language
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.
George Ellery Hale

George Ellery Hale

male, deceased (1938)
palomar observatory, craters of the Moon named after them, from Chicago, solar, journalist, california institute of technology
George Ellery Hale (June 29 1868 - February 21 1938) was an American solar astronomer, born in Chicago. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory...
Samuel Pierpont Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley

male, deceased (1906)
University of Pittsburgh, United States Naval Academy, Recipient of the Henry Draper Medal, physicist, Henry Draper Medal, Astronomer…solar
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston) - February 27 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American...
Arthur Milne

Arthur Milne

male, deceased (1950)
Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, hull, general relativity…solar
Edward Arthur Milne FRS (February 14 1896 - September 21 1950) was a British mathematician and astrophysicist. Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire,...
Richard Of Wallingford

Richard Of Wallingford

male, deceased (1336)
From Wallingford, orphan, Medieval astronomer, Astrologer, mathematician, abbot…solar
Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336) was an English mathematician who made major contributions to astronomy/astrology and horology while serving as...
Marcel Minnaert

Marcel Minnaert

male, deceased (1970)
Utrecht University faculty, science teacher, utrecht university, World War II, fascist, World War I…solar
Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (February 12 1893 - October 261970) was a Belgian astronomer. He obtained a PhD in biology at Ghent University in...
Jean Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin

male, deceased (1942)
sedimentation equilibrium, Ecole Normale Superieure, sorbonne, Nobel Laureate, physical chemistry, French…solar
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in Lille, France where he attended the École Normale Supérieure. He be...
Edward Walter Maunder

Edward Walter Maunder

male, deceased (1928)
Astronomer, mathematician, Alumni of King's College London, sunspot, sun, solar
Edward Walter Maunder (April 12 1851 - March 21 1928) was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic...
Giorgio Abetti

Giorgio Abetti

male, deceased (1982)
professor, Rome, Italy, Cairo, Egypt, from Padua, Accademia dei Lincei, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri…solar eclipse, solar
Giorgio Abetti (October 5, 1882 - August 24, 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio...

Edison Pettit

male, deceased (1962)
University of Chicago, Astronomer, crater, moon, yerkes observatory, sun…solar
Edison Pettit (September 22 1889 - May 6 1962) was an American astronomer. He was born in Peru, Nebraska. He taught astronomy at Washburn College...