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.

Johann Tobias Burg

Austrian astronomer.

American astronomer and archaeologist, founder of dendrochronology

Kirill Ogorodnikov

Soviet astronomer.

Sethus Calvisius

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

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Danish astronomer.

Harold Delos Babcock

American astronomer

American astronomer and instrument maker

Astronomer, surveyor, academician

Jean-Felix Picard

French astronomer

Johan August Hugo Gylden

Finnish-Swedish astronomer

Yusuke Hichihara

Japanese astronomer

Hugo von Seeliger

German astronomer

George Howard Darwin

English astronomer and mathematician

Canadian-American astronomer

Vladimir Shkodrov

Bulgarian astronomer

Russian astronomer

Gennadiy Pinigin

Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.

English astronomer

Gerard Peter Kuiper

Dutch-American astronomer

Samuel Pierpont Langley

American astronomer, physicist, and pioneer of aeronautics.

Edward Pickering

American astronomer and physicist.

Mikhail Grachev

Russian astronomer and surveyor

Nikola Flammarion

French astronomer, author of 'Popular Astronomy'

Andre-Louis Danjon

French astronomer.

American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Pioneer of the widespread use of astronomy in the United States

Charles-Eugene Delaunay

French astronomer and mathematician

Thomas Makdougall Brisbane

British military officer, colonial leader in Australia and astronomer.

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

English astronomer

American astrophysicist, employee of the Goddard Space Flight Center

Horace Welcom Babcock

American astronomer

American astronomer.

Hungarian astronomer

Chinese astronomer and mathematician

Robert Hanbury Brown

Anglo-Australian astronomer and physicist.

Gottfried Kirch

German astronomer, member of the Royal Prussian Scientific Society.

Polish astronomer, telescope designer

French astronomer and mathematician.

Swedish astronomer and meteorologist after whom the temperature scale is named

Stephen Groombridge

British astronomer, star cataloguer

Heinrich Kreutz

German astronomer

Paulius Slavenas

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

English astronomer

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

Czechoslovakian astronomer

Eugeniya Bugoslavskaya

Soviet astronomer.

Russian and Soviet astronomer, professor at Moscow State University

William Robert Brooks

American astronomer

Bulgarian astronomer.

American astronomer

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Anglo-American astronomer and astrophysicist