Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950 - 1987) George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927 - 1983) John Couch Adams (Britain, 1819 - 1892) Walter Sidney Adams (USA, 1876 - 1956) George Biddell Airy, (England 1801 - 1892) Albategnius (see Al-Batani) Al-Batani (Iraq, 850 - 929) 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, (Persia, 903 - 986) Anders Ångström (Sweden, 1814 - 1874) Al-Khwarizmi, (Kheva, Abbasid caliphate, 780 - 850) Andronicus of Cyrrhus Francois Arago (France, 1786 - 1853) Aristarchus (Samos, circa 310 BC - circa 230 BC) Hannes Alvén (Sweden, 1908 - 1995) B Walter Baade (Germany, 1893 - 1960) John Bahcall (USA, 1934 - ) Jean Sylvain Bailly (France, 1736-1793) Benjamin Banneker (USA, 1731 - 1806) Edward Emerson Barnard (USA, 1857 - 1923) Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572 - 1625) Wilhelm Beer (Germany, 1797 - 1850) Jocelyn Bell (Ireland, 1943 - ) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846) Johann Elert Bode (Germany, 1747 - 1826) Bart Bok (Netherlands, 1906 - 1983) Charles Thomas Bolton (USA, 1943 - ) Ruđer Josip Bošković (Dalmatia, 1711 - 1787) James Bradley (England, 1693 - 1762) Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546 - 1601) Margaret Burbidge (Britain, 1919 - ) C Annie Jump Cannon (USA, 1863 - 1941) Giovanni Domenico Cassini (France, 1625 - 1712) Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598 - 1647) Anders Celsius, (1701 - 1744) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India, USA, 1910 - 1995) James Christy (USA, 1938 - ) Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland, 1473 - 1543) D Andre Louis Danjon (France, 1890 - 1967) Willem de Sitter (Netherlands, 1872 - 1934) Robert Dicke (USA, 1916 - 1997) Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978) Franjo Dominko, (Slovenia, 1903 - 1987) Frank Drake (USA, 1930 - ) Henry Draper (USA, 1837 - 1882) E Arthur Eddington (England, 1882 - 1944) Eise Eisinga (Netherlands, 1744 - 1828) Johann Franz Encke (Germany, 1791 - 1865) Eudoxus (Cnidus, circa 408 BC - circa 347 BC) Eratosthenes (Alexandria, 276 BC - 194 BC) F David Fabricius (Netherlands, 1564 - 1617) Johannes Fabricius (Netherlands, 1587 - 1615) John Flamsteed, (England, 1646 - 1719) William Fowler (USA, 1911 - 1995) G Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564 - 1642) Johann Gottfried Galle (Germany, 1812 - 1910) George Gamow (Russia, USA, 1904 - 1968) Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855) Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, 1931 - ) David Gill (Britain, 1843 - 1914) Thomas Gold (USA, 1920 - ) Paul Goldsmith (USA, 1948 - ) Alan Harvey Guth (USA, 1947 - ) H George Ellery Hale (USA, 1868 - 1938) Asaph Hall (USA, 1829 - 1907) Edmond Halley (England, 1656 - 1742) William Hartmann (USA, 1939 - ) Stephen Hawking (Britain, 1942 - ) Thomas Henderson (Scotland, 1798 - 1844) George Herbig (USA, 1920 - ) Caroline Herschel (Britain, 1750 - 1848) John Herschel (Britain, 1792 - 1871) William Herschel (Britain, 1738 - 1822) Ejnar Hertzsprung (Denmark, 1873 - 1967) Antony Hewish (Britain, 1924 - ) Hipparchus (Nicaea, circa 190 BC - 120 BC) Cuno Hoffmeister (Germany, 1892 - 1968) Fred Hoyle (Britain, 1915 - 2001) Edwin Powell Hubble (USA, 1889 - 1953) William Huggins (Britain, 1824 - 1910) Russell Alan Hulse (USA, 1950 - ) Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Netherlands, 1918 - 2000) Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629 - 1695) I I Sin (China, 683 - 727) J Karl Guthe Jansky (USA, 1905 - 1950) K Jacobus Kapteyn (Netherlands, 1851 - 1922) Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571 - 1630) Kidinnu (Babylon, circa 400 BC - 310 BC) Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895) Gerard Kuiper (Netherlands, USA, 1905 - 1973) L Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (France, 1713 - 1762) Joseph-Louis Lagrange (France, 1736 - 1813) Johann Heinrich Lambert (France, Germany, 1728 - 1777) Samuel Pierpont Langley Pierre-Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827) William Lassell (Britain, 1799 - 1880) Henrietta Swan Leavitt (USA, 1868 - 1921) Georges Lemaître (Belgium, 1894 - 1966) Pierre Lemonnier (France, 1715 - 1799) Urbain Le Verrier (France, 1811 - 1877) Bertil Lindblad (Sweden, 1895 - 1965) Joseph Lockyer (Britain, 1836 - 1920) Percival Lowell (USA, 1855 - 1916) Bernard-Ferdinand Lyot (France, 1897 - 1952) M Adriaan van Maanen (USA, 1884 - 1946) Christopher McKee (USA, 1942 -) Charles Messier (France, 1730 - 1817) Rudolph Minkowski (Germany, 1895 - 1976) Maria Mitchell (USA, 1818 - 1889) August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790 - 1868) Johannes Müller (Germany, 1436 - 1476) N Patrick Moore Nils Mustelin Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, circa 560 BC - 480 BC) Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643 - 1727) Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937 - 1998) O Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (Germany, 1758 - 1840) Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900 - 1992) P Anton Pannekoek Netherlands, (1873 - 1960) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979) Roger Penrose (Britain, 1931 - ) Arno Penzias (Germany, 1933 - ) Giuseppe Piazzi (Italy, 1746 - 1826) Edward Charles Pickering (USA, 1846 - 1919) Richard Proctor (England, 1837 - 1888) Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, circa 85 - 165) Q Adolphe Quetelet (Belgium, 1796 - 1874) R Pavla Ranzinger (Slovenia) Grote Reber (USA, 1911 - ) Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436 - 1476) Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany, 1511 - 1553) Giovanni Battistta Riccioli (Italy, 1598 - 1671) Ole Christensen Rømer (1644 - 1710) Bruno Rossi (Italy, 1905 - 1993) Vera Rubin (USA, 1928 - ) Henry Norris Russell (USA, 1877 - 1957) S Carl Sagan (USA, 1934 - 1996) Edwin Salpeter (Austria, Australia, USA, 1924 - ) Allan Sandage (1926 - ) Bernhard Schmidt (Estonia, Sweden, Germany, 1879 - 1935) Karl Schwarzchild (Germany, 1873 - 1916) Carl Keenan Seyfert (USA, 1911 - 1960) Maarten Schmidt (1929 - ) Harlow Shapley, (USA, 1885 - 1972) Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russia, 1916 - 1985) Eugene Shoemaker, (1928-1997) Vesto Slipher (USA, 1875 - 1969) Mary Fairfax Sommerville Edward James Stone, (1831 - 1897) Otto Struve (Russia, USA, 1897 - 1963) T Thabit ibn Qurra (Iraq, 826 - 901) Joseph Taylor (USA, 1941 - ) Kip Thorne (USA, 1940 - ) Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906 - 1997) Robert Trumpler (USA, 1886 - 1956) U Ulugh Beg (Timurid Iran, 1394 - 1449) V Yrjo Vaisala (Finland, 1891 - 1971) James Van Allen (USA, 1914 - ) Hermann Carl Vogel (Germany, 1841 - 1907) Joseph von Fraunhofer (Germany, 1787 - 1826) Friedrich von Struve (Germany, Russia, 1793 - 1864) Karl von Weizsäcker (Germany, 1912 - ) W Godefroy Wedelin (Belgium, 1580 - 1667) John Wheeler (USA, 1911 - ) Fred Whipple (USA, 1906 - ) Robert Wilson (USA, 1936 - ) Maximilian Wolf (Germany, 1863 - 1932) Y Charles Augustus Young (USA, 1834 - 1908) Z Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (USSR, 1914 - 1987) Zhang Heng, (78-139) Zu Chongzhi, (425-500) Fritz Zwicky (Switzerland, USA, 1898 - 1974) Other scientists whose work had an impact on A&A.