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.

Eleanor Burbidge

Anglo-American astronomer

French astronomer and mathematician.

Aleksander Wolszczan

Polish astronomer.

Samuel Pierpont Langley

American astronomer, physicist, and pioneer of aeronautics.

Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell

English astronomer.

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

American astronomer and instrument maker

Karl Schwarzschild

German astronomer, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics

Italian missionary, monk of the Jesuit Order, astronomer, cartographer, geographer

English astrophysicist

Lydia Tseraskaya

Outstanding Russian and Soviet astronomer

Klavdiy Ptolemey

Ancient Greek scientist.

German astronomer who discovered the planet Neptune in 1846 using coordinates calculated by the Frenchman Le Verrier.

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

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

Russian astronomer

Vladimir Shkodrov

Bulgarian astronomer

Gennadiy Pinigin

Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.

English astronomer

Gerard Peter Kuiper

Dutch-American astronomer

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

Swedish astronomer and meteorologist after whom the temperature scale is named

Stephen Groombridge

British astronomer, star cataloguer

Heinrich Kreutz

German astronomer