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.

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

The first director of the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk University.

James Edward Keeler

American astronomer.

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.

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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Outstanding German scientist and publicist

Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell

English astronomer.

Adalbert Krueger

German astronomer

Scottish astronomer and surveyor

Mexican astronomer.

English astronomer

William Crabtree

An English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century

Giovanni Battista Hodierna

Italian astronomer

Edward Emerson Barnard

American observational astronomer

Jean-Felix Picard

French astronomer

Hungarian astronomer

Gennadiy Pinigin

Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.

Eleanor Burbidge

Anglo-American astronomer

Heinrich Kreutz

German astronomer

Chinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer and Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty

David C. Jewitt

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

Bogdan Shveytser

Russian astronomer and astrometrist.

(Johann Müller) German astronomer and mathematician, invited to Rome in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV to reform the calendar.

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Danish astronomer.

American astronomer

British (Australian) astronomer and meteorologist.

Conon Samosskiy

Ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician.

Russian astronomer

American astronomer who conducted fundamental studies of planetary motion

Bulgarian astronomer.

Zinaida Aksenteva

Soviet geophysicist and astronomer

Friedrich Argelander

German astronomer

English astronomer, geophysicist (discovered Halley's Comet)

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

English astronomer

French astronomer and mathematician.

Joseph Jerome Lefrancois De Lalande

French astronomer.

Henri Alexandre Deslandres

French astronomer

Frederik Kaiser

Dutch astronomer

Henri Debehogne

Belgian astronomer

American astronomer

American astronomer

English winemaker and patron of astronomy.

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