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.

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

Annie Jump Cannon

American astronomer

American astronomer

John Gatenby Bolton

British-born Australian astronomer.

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

Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer and mathematician

Sherburne Burnham

American astronomer

English astronomer and physicist

Giuseppe Maria Asclepi

Italian astronomer.

Alexander Bogorodsky

Soviet astronomer

American astronomer of Dutch origin.

The first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk University.

Christoph Arnold

German astronomer.

American astronomer

Ancient Greek scientist, one of the founders of astronomy

German astronomer

American astronomer

Swiss astronomer.

Dutch astronomer

George Phillips Bond

Son of American astronomer William Cranch Bond.

Charles Thomas Kowal

American astronomer

Nicolas-Louis De la Caille

French astronomer

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

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

Ervest-Ogust Fay

French astronomer.

Alvan Graham Clark

American astronomer and telescope maker

Pierre Simon Laplace

Astronomer, physicist, mathematician

James Van Allen

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

Waseem Effendi Abbas

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

English metrologist and astronomer

Frank Donald Drake

American astronomer.

French astronomer.

Vladimir Kavraysky

Soviet astronomer, geodesist and cartographer

Mexican astronomer.

Jacques Cassini

French astronomer

Louis Delil de la Croyere

French astronomer, professor of astronomy

Zinaida Aksenteva

Soviet geophysicist and astronomer

Nikolay Barabashov

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

English amateur astronomer

Swiss-born American astronomer

Willem de Sitter

Dutch astronomer

Tomasz Zebrowski

Astronomer and mathematician

Austrian astronomer and meteorologist.

David C. Jewitt

American astronomer, professor at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

Joseph Jerome Lefrancois De Lalande

French astronomer.

In total, Abetti was the author of more than 250 scientific works. His works on the history of astronomy and popular science books are well known, the most notable of which are "The Sun" (1936) and "Stars and Planets" (1956).