List of astronomers
Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include:
A
- Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950-1987)
- George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927-1983)
- John Couch Adams (Britain, 1819-1892)
- Albategnius (Iraq, 850-929)
B
- Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572-1625)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784-1846)
- Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546-1601)
C
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini (France, 1625-1712)
- Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598-1647)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (Prussia in Europe, 1473-1543)
D
- Andre Louis Danjon (France, 1890-1967)
- Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978)
E
- Arthur Eddington (England, 1882-1944)
F
- David Fabricius (Netherlands, 1564-1617)
- Johannes Fabricius (Netherlands, 1587-1615)
G
- Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777-1855)
H
- George Ellery Hale (1868-1938)
- Asaph Hall (1829-1907)
- Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
- Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
- John Herschel (1792-1871)
- William Herschel (1738-1822)
- Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873-1967)
- Hipparchus (Nicaea, circa 190 BC-120 BC)
- Fred Hoyle (Britain, 1915-2001)
- Edwin Powell Hubble (USA, 1889-1953)
- William Huggins (1824-1910)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
I
J
- Karl Guthe Jansky (USA, 1905-1950)
K
- 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)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728-1777)
- Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749-1827)
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (USA, 1868-1921)
- Urbain Leverrier (1811-1877)
- Percival Lowell (USA, 1855-1916)
M
- Adriaan van Maanen (USA, 1884-1946)
N
- Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, circa 560 BC-480 BC)
- Isaac Newton (Britain, 1643-1727)
- Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937-1998)
O
- Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers (Germany, 1758-1840)
P
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
- Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, circa 85-165)
Q
- Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (Belgium, 1796-1874)
R
- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436-1476)
- Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany 1511-1553)
- Grote Reber (USA, 1911- )
- Ole Romer (1644-1710)
- Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957)
S
- Carl Sagan (USA, 1934-1996)
- Allan Sandage (1926-)
- Carl Seyfert (1911-1960)
- Maarten Schmidt (1929-)
- Harlow Shapley, (USA, 1885-1972)
T
- Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906-1997)
U
- Ulugh Beg (Timurid Iran, 1394-1449)
V
- Yrjo Vaisala (Finland, 1891-1971)
- Hermann Carl Vogel (Germany, 1841-1907)
W
- Godefroy Wedelin (Belgium, 1580-1667)
Y
- Charles Augustus Young (USA, 1834-1908)
Z
- Fritz Zwicky (Switzerland, USA, 1898-1974)
Other scientists whose work had an impact on A&A.
- Niels Bohr (physicist) (1885-1962)
- Albert Einstein (physicist) (1879-1955)
(...many more)