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.

Peter Andreas Hansen

Famous German astronomer.

Tomasz Zebrowski

Astronomer and mathematician

Yusuke Hichihara

Japanese astronomer

American astronomer.

French physician, soothsayer, astrologer, physician-in-ordinary to Charles IX

English astronomer

Richard Woolley

English astronomer.

Famous German astronomer.

Czechoslovakian astronomer

Born in Mashhad, Iran, died in Kutahya, Türkiye - Turkish astronomer.

Roald Gerscberg

Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer

Nikola Flammarion

French astronomer, author of 'Popular Astronomy'

Karolina Gershel

English astronomer

Pierre Simon Laplace

Astronomer, physicist, mathematician

Waseem Effendi Abbas

Born in Bursa, Türkiye, died in Istanbul, Türkiye - Turkish astronomer, physician, calligrapher and poet

American astronomer who proved that galaxies are made up of star systems

Polish astronomer, telescope designer

English astrophysicist

Jacobus Kapteyn

A Dutch astronomer who became famous for his extensive studies of the Milky Way.

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

British astronomer, author of several science fiction novels.

Jesse Leonard Greenstein

American astronomer

Peter van de Kamp

Dutch-American astronomer

Chinese astronomer, mathematician, geographer, inventor, artist, poet, literary critic and statesman

Dutch astronomer

Percival Lowell

American businessman, orientalist, diplomat, astronomer and mathematician

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

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

American astronomer

Harold Jeffreys

English geophysicist and astronomer.

Finnish astronomer, optician and geodesist, professor, academician

American astronomer and instrument maker

George A.Van Biesbroeck

Belgian-American astronomer

The first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk University.

American astronomer

James Edward Keeler

American astronomer.

English astronomer.

Medieval astronomer and mathematician

Nikolay Copernicus

Polish astronomer, creator of the heliocentric system of the world, philosopher, physician

Nicolas-Louis De la Caille

French astronomer

Arthur Eddington

English astrophysicist, foreign corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Danish astronomer, astrologer and alchemist of the Renaissance.

Eugene Joseph Delporte

Belgian astronomer.

Hugo von Seeliger

German astronomer

Christoph Scheiner

German astronomer, physicist, mechanic and mathematician

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

Indian astronomer and astrologer of the 3rd century. AD

English astronomer.

French astronomer.

William Robert Brooks

American astronomer

Vladimir Albitsky

Soviet astronomer