Astronomy

Discover a comprehensive list of notable individuals who have made significant contributions to astronomy. From renowned scientists and astronauts to influential astronomers and astrophysicists, this category showcases the brilliance behind astronomical discoveries and advancements.

English winemaker and patron of astronomy.

Paulius Slavenas

Soviet and Lithuanian astronomer, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science

Ludwig Biermann

German astronomer

The first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk University.

Canadian astronomer

Nicolas-Louis De la Caille

French astronomer

American astronomer

English astronomer.

Nikolay Barabashov

Astronomer, founder of the Kharkov School of Planetology, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948)

Frederik Kaiser

Dutch astronomer

Georges Lemeiter

Belgian Catholic priest, astronomer and mathematician.

Ernst Julius Opik

Estonian astronomer

English metrologist and astronomer

French-American scientist of various profiles: astronomer, astrophysicist, mathematician-programmer, businessman

Mexican astronomer.

Henri Alexandre Deslandres

French astronomer

Johann Tobias Burg

Austrian astronomer.

Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer and mathematician

Sethus Calvisius

German astronomer, chronologist, historian, music theorist and composer.

Dutch astronomer

Eugeniya Bugoslavskaya

Soviet astronomer.

American astronomer.

German astronomer, member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, founder of the Berlin Astronomical Yearbook. (53)

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

English astronomer

Stephen Groombridge

British astronomer, star cataloguer

Aleksander Wolszczan

Polish astronomer.

Harold Delos Babcock

American astronomer

American astronomer

Vladimir Shkodrov

Bulgarian astronomer

American astronomer

Swiss-born American astronomer

James Van Allen

American astrophysicist, famous for his discovery of the Earth's radiation belts.

Henri Debehogne

Belgian astronomer

Chinese astrophysicist and public figure, dissident

Johannes Kepler

German astronomer, physicist, astrologer, who discovered the laws of planetary motion.

Sherburne Burnham

American astronomer

Antonio Cagnoli

Italian astronomer.

Baldassarre Capra

17th century astronomer

German physician, mathematician and astronomer

Indian astronomer, mathematician and astrologer

Forest Ray Moulton

American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Anton Pannekoek

Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist.

Ivan Baranovskiy

Astronomer, author of a number of scientific articles on astronomy and meteorology

English astronomer.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

American astronomer

American astronomer.

Bulgarian astronomer.

Geoffrey Burbidge

Anglo-American astronomer

American astronomer who discovered the ninth major planet of the solar system, Pluto, in 1930

Harold Jeffreys

English geophysicist and astronomer.