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.

Klavdiy Ptolemey

Ancient Greek scientist.

American astronomer who discovered several of Jupiter's moons and asteroids

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

Peter van de Kamp

Dutch-American astronomer

Aleksander Wolszczan

Polish astronomer.

American astronomer

Vsevolod Sharonov

Soviet astronomer.

Alexander Bogorodsky

Soviet astronomer

Western Arabian astronomer and mathematician

Eugene Joseph Delporte

Belgian astronomer.

American astronomer and archaeologist, founder of dendrochronology

William Henry Fox Talbot

English physicist, chemist and master of photography

Nikolay Barabashov

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

American astronomer.

Cornelis De Jager

Dutch astronomer

Sethus Calvisius

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

Edward Pickering

American astronomer and physicist.

French astronomer.

Vasiliy Phesenkov

Astrophysicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

American astronomer of Dutch origin.

Canadian-American astronomer

Frank Donald Drake

American astronomer.

Swiss-born American astronomer

Mikhail Grachev

Russian astronomer and surveyor

Karl Schwarzschild

German astronomer, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics

Dutch astronomer

Cesar Francois Cassini

French astronomer and surveyor

Stephen Groombridge

British astronomer, star cataloguer

Chinese astronomer and mathematician

George A.Van Biesbroeck

Belgian-American astronomer

Gerard Peter Kuiper

Dutch-American astronomer

Benjamin Apthorp Gould

American astronomer.

Kirill Ogorodnikov

Soviet astronomer.

John Stanley Plaskett

Canadian astronomer

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

English astronomer

Forest Ray Moulton

American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Famous astronomer

American astronomer.

English astronomer and physicist

Robert Hanbury Brown

Anglo-Australian astronomer and physicist.

Ivan Baranovskiy

Astronomer, author of a number of scientific articles on astronomy and meteorology

French astronomer.

Jean Sylvain Bailly

Astronomer and figure of the Great French Revolution

Galileo Galilei

Italian physicist, astronomer, one of the founders of natural science, an outstanding thinker of the Renaissance.

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf

German astronomer, pioneer in astrophotography.

Russian, Romanian and French astronomer.

Russian and Soviet astronomer, professor at Moscow State University

Peter Andreas Hansen

Famous German astronomer.

Tomasz Zebrowski

Astronomer and mathematician