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.

Soviet astronomer

Margaret Turnbull

American astronomer

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Outstanding German scientist and publicist

German astronomer and cartographer

Peter van de Kamp

Dutch-American astronomer

Gottfried Kirch

German astronomer, member of the Royal Prussian Scientific Society.

Aleksander Wolszczan

Polish astronomer.

French astronomer and mathematician.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Theoretical astrophysicist

Chinese astronomer and mathematician

Andre-Louis Danjon

French astronomer.

Willem de Sitter

Dutch astronomer

Peter Andreas Hansen

Famous German astronomer.

German astronomer and astrophysicist

Nicolas-Louis De la Caille

French astronomer

English astronomer

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

French astronomer, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

William Crabtree

An English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century

Charles-Eugene Delaunay

French astronomer and mathematician

William Henry Fox Talbot

English physicist, chemist and master of photography

Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer and mathematician

George Phillips Bond

Son of American astronomer William Cranch Bond.

Sherburne Burnham

American astronomer

French astronomer.

American astronomer and instrument maker

Medieval astronomer and mathematician

David Fabricius

German astronomer, discoverer of the first variable star

Cornelis De Jager

Dutch astronomer

Cesar Francois Cassini

French astronomer and surveyor

Cleostratus Tenedosskiy

Ancient Greek astronomer.

Astronomer, SETI project participant.

George A.Van Biesbroeck

Belgian-American astronomer

Dutch astronomer

Lawrence Hugh Aller

American astronomer.

Louis Delil de la Croyere

French astronomer, professor of astronomy

English astronomer.

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Danish astronomer.

Antonio Cagnoli

Italian astronomer.

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

Frank Donald Drake

American astronomer.

Nikolay Barabashov

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

Michael Vashakidze

Soviet astronomer

Jean Sylvain Bailly

Astronomer and figure of the Great French Revolution

Zinaida Aksenteva

Soviet geophysicist and astronomer

Johann Franz Encke

German astronomer

Mexican astronomer.

Joseph Jerome Lefrancois De Lalande

French astronomer.

Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell

English astronomer.

English astrophysicist

Yusuke Hichihara

Japanese astronomer