James E. Gunn

James E. Gunn

male, 71 years old
James Edward Gunn, Wide Field and Planetary Camera, Caltech, Princeton University faculty, Eugene Higgins, space…spectra
James Edward Gunn (born 1938) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Gunn's early theoretical work helped establish...
Williamina Fleming

Williamina Fleming

female, deceased (1911)
Star, Astronomer, nebula, Scottish, British, spectra
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 - May 21, 1911), astronomer, was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert Stevens and Mary Walker...
Witter Bynner

Witter Bynner

male, deceased (1968)
Harvard University, Arthur Davison Ficke, Marjorie Allen Seiffert, Inn of the Turquoise Bear, McClure's Magazine, imagist…spectra
Harold Witter Bynner was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at what is now the "Inn of the...
Helen Sawyer Hogg

Helen Sawyer Hogg

female, deceased (1993)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, Radcliffe College alumni, Order of Canada, Astronomer, university of toronto, Companion of the Order of Canada…spectra
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC, FRSC (August 1, 1905 - January 28, 1993) was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters....

James Carpenter

male, deceased (1899)
Astronomer, saturn, British, spectra, moon, greenwich
James Carpenter (1840-1899) was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the first observations of...
Rupert Wildt

Rupert Wildt

male, deceased (1976)
Yale University, Princeton University, University of Virginia, professor, Astronomer, German…spectra
Rupert Wildt was a German-American astronomer. He was born in Munich, Germany, and grew up in that country during World War I and its aftermath. In...
Peter Millman

Peter Millman

male, deceased (1990)
Harvard University, Astronomer, spectra, royal canadian air force, Canadian, crater
Peter Mackenzie Millman (1906 - December 11,1990) was a Canadian astronomer. He worked at the Dunlap Observatory from 1933 until 1940. In early...
Alexander N. Vyssotsky

Alexander N. Vyssotsky

male, deceased (1973)
University of Virginia, Astronomer, Russian, dwarf, spectra, catalogue
Alexander N. Vyssotsky (May 23, 1888 - December 31, 1973) was an astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Russia. During his 35 years at the...
Raymond Thayer Birge

Raymond Thayer Birge

male, deceased (1980)
University of Wisconsin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, physicist, spectra, molecular, lewis
Raymond Thayer Birge (March 13, 1887 - March 22, 1980) was a physicist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, into an academic scientific family, Birge...
Frank Scott Hogg

Frank Scott Hogg

male, deceased (1951)
Canadian of Scottish descent, From Cambridge, Ontario, sextant, spectra, University of Toronto faculty, hogg
Frank Scott Hogg (June 26, 1904 - January 1, 1951) was born to Dr. James Scott Hogg and Ida Barberon in Preston, Ontario. After earning and...