List of astronomers (original) (raw)
Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950 - 1987)
- George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927 - 1983)
- John Couch Adams (Britain, 1819 - 1892)
- Walter Sidney Adams (USA, 1876 - 1956)
- George Biddell Airy, (England 1801 - 1892)
- Albategnius (see Al-Batani)
- Al-Batani (Iraq, 850 - 929)
- 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, (Persia, 903 - 986)
- Anders �ngstr�m (Sweden, 1814 - 1874)
- Al-Khwarizmi, (Kheva, Abbasid caliphate, 780 - 850)
- Andronicus of Cyrrhus
- Francois Arago (France, 1786 - 1853)
- Aristarchus (Samos, circa 310 BC - circa 230 BC)
- Hannes Alv�n (Sweden, 1908 - 1995)
B
- Walter Baade (Germany, 1893 - 1960)
- John Bahcall (USA, 1934 - )
- Jean Sylvain Bailly (France, 1736-1793)
- Benjamin Banneker (USA, 1731 - 1806)
- Edward Emerson Barnard (USA, 1857 - 1923)
- Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572 - 1625)
- Wilhelm Beer (Germany, 1797 - 1850)
- Jocelyn Bell (Ireland, 1943 - )
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)
- Johann Elert Bode (Germany, 1747 - 1826)
- Bart Bok (Netherlands, 1906 - 1983)
- Charles Thomas Bolton (USA, 1943 - )
- Ruđer Josip Bošković (Dalmatia, 1711 - 1787)
- James Bradley (England, 1693 - 1762)
- Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546 - 1601)
- Margaret Burbidge (Britain, 1919 - )
C
- Annie Jump Cannon (USA, 1863 - 1941)
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini (France, 1625 - 1712)
- Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598 - 1647)
- Anders Celsius, (1701 - 1744)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India, USA, 1910 - 1995)
- James Christy (USA, 1938 - )
- Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland, 1473 - 1543)
D
- Andre Louis Danjon (France, 1890 - 1967)
- Willem de Sitter (Netherlands, 1872 - 1934)
- Robert Dicke (USA, 1916 - 1997)
- Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978)
- Franjo Dominko, (Slovenia, 1903 - 1987)
- Frank Drake (USA, 1930 - )
- Henry Draper (USA, 1837 - 1882)
E
- Arthur Eddington (England, 1882 - 1944)
- Eise Eisinga (Netherlands, 1744 - 1828)
- Johann Franz Encke (Germany, 1791 - 1865)
- Eudoxus (Cnidus, circa 408 BC - circa 347 BC)
- Eratosthenes (Alexandria, 276 BC - 194 BC)
F
- David Fabricius (Netherlands, 1564 - 1617)
- Johannes Fabricius (Netherlands, 1587 - 1615)
- John Flamsteed, (England, 1646 - 1719)
- William Fowler (USA, 1911 - 1995)
G
- Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564 - 1642)
- Johann Gottfried Galle (Germany, 1812 - 1910)
- George Gamow (Russia, USA, 1904 - 1968)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)
- Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, 1931 - )
- David Gill (Britain, 1843 - 1914)
- Thomas Gold (USA, 1920 - )
- Paul Goldsmith (USA, 1948 - )
- Alan Harvey Guth (USA, 1947 - )
H
- George Ellery Hale (USA, 1868 - 1938)
- Asaph Hall (USA, 1829 - 1907)
- Edmond Halley (England, 1656 - 1742)
- William Hartmann (USA, 1939 - )
- Stephen Hawking (Britain, 1942 - )
- Thomas Henderson (Scotland, 1798 - 1844)
- George Herbig (USA, 1920 - )
- Caroline Herschel (Britain, 1750 - 1848)
- John Herschel (Britain, 1792 - 1871)
- William Herschel (Britain, 1738 - 1822)
- Ejnar Hertzsprung (Denmark, 1873 - 1967)
- Antony Hewish (Britain, 1924 - )
- Hipparchus (Nicaea, circa 190 BC - 120 BC)
- Cuno Hoffmeister (Germany, 1892 - 1968)
- Fred Hoyle (Britain, 1915 - 2001)
- Edwin Powell Hubble (USA, 1889 - 1953)
- William Huggins (Britain, 1824 - 1910)
- Russell Alan Hulse (USA, 1950 - )
- Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Netherlands, 1918 - 2000)
- Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695)
I
J
- Karl Guthe Jansky (USA, 1905 - 1950)
K
- Jacobus Kapteyn (Netherlands, 1851 - 1922)
- Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630)
- Kidinnu (Babylon, circa 400 BC - 310 BC)
- Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895)
- Gerard Kuiper (Netherlands, USA, 1905 - 1973)
L
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (France, 1713 - 1762)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (France, Germany, 1728 - 1777)
- Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827)
- William Lassell (Britain, 1799 - 1880)
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (USA, 1868 - 1921)
- Georges Lema�tre (Belgium, 1894 - 1966)
- Pierre Lemonnier (France, 1715 - 1799)
- Urbain Le Verrier (France, 1811 - 1877)
- Bertil Lindblad (Sweden, 1895 - 1965)
- Joseph Lockyer (Britain, 1836 - 1920)
- Percival Lowell (USA, 1855 - 1916)
- Bernard-Ferdinand Lyot (France, 1897 - 1952)
M
- Adriaan van Maanen (USA, 1884 - 1946)
- Christopher McKee (USA, 1942 -)
- Charles Messier (France, 1730 - 1817)
- Rudolph Minkowski (Germany, 1895 - 1976)
- Maria Mitchell (USA, 1818 - 1889)
- August Ferdinand M�bius (Germany, 1790 - 1868)
- Johannes M�ller (Germany, 1436 - 1476)
N
- Patrick Moore
- Nils Mustelin
- Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, circa 560 BC - 480 BC)
- Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 - 1727)
- Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937 - 1998)
O
- Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (Germany, 1758 - 1840)
- Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900 - 1992)
P
- Anton Pannekoek Netherlands, (1873 - 1960)
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979)
- Roger Penrose (Britain, 1931 - )
- Arno Penzias (Germany, 1933 - )
- Giuseppe Piazzi (Italy, 1746 - 1826)
- Edward Charles Pickering (USA, 1846 - 1919)
- Richard Proctor (England, 1837 - 1888)
- Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, circa 85 - 165)
Q
- Adolphe Quetelet (Belgium, 1796 - 1874)
R
- Pavla Ranzinger (Slovenia)
- Grote Reber (USA, 1911 - )
- Regiomontanus (Johannes M�ller, Germany, 1436 - 1476)
- Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany, 1511 - 1553)
- Giovanni Battistta Riccioli (Italy, 1598 - 1671)
- Ole Christensen R�mer (1644 - 1710)
- Bruno Rossi (Italy, 1905 - 1993)
- Vera Rubin (USA, 1928 - )
- Henry Norris Russell (USA, 1877 - 1957)
S
- Carl Sagan (USA, 1934 - 1996)
- Edwin Salpeter (Austria, Australia, USA, 1924 - )
- Allan Sandage (1926 - )
- Bernhard Schmidt (Estonia, Sweden, Germany, 1879 - 1935)
- Karl Schwarzchild (Germany, 1873 - 1916)
- Carl Keenan Seyfert (USA, 1911 - 1960)
- Maarten Schmidt (1929 - )
- Harlow Shapley, (USA, 1885 - 1972)
- Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russia, 1916 - 1985)
- Eugene Shoemaker, (1928-1997)
- Vesto Slipher (USA, 1875 - 1969)
- Mary Fairfax Sommerville
- Edward James Stone, (1831 - 1897)
- Otto Struve (Russia, USA, 1897 - 1963)
T
- Thabit ibn Qurra (Iraq, 826 - 901)
- Joseph Taylor (USA, 1941 - )
- Kip Thorne (USA, 1940 - )
- Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906 - 1997)
- Robert Trumpler (USA, 1886 - 1956)
U
V
- Yrjo Vaisala (Finland, 1891 - 1971)
- James Van Allen (USA, 1914 - )
- Hermann Carl Vogel (Germany, 1841 - 1907)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer (Germany, 1787 - 1826)
- Friedrich von Struve (Germany, Russia, 1793 - 1864)
- Karl von Weizs�cker (Germany, 1912 - )
W
- Godefroy Wedelin (Belgium, 1580 - 1667)
- John Wheeler (USA, 1911 - )
- Fred Whipple (USA, 1906 - )
- Robert Wilson (USA, 1936 - )
- Maximilian Wolf (Germany, 1863 - 1932)
Y
Z
- Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (USSR, 1914 - 1987)
- Zhang Heng, (78-139)
- Zu Chongzhi, (425-500)
- Fritz Zwicky (Switzerland, USA, 1898 - 1974)
Other scientists whose work had an impact on A&A.
- Niels Bohr (physicist) (1885 - 1962)
- Albert Einstein (physicist) (1879 - 1955)