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)

Dominique Arago (France, 1786 - 1853)

Aristarchus (Samos, circa 310 BC - 230 BC)

George Airy (England, 1801 - 1892)

B

Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572 - 1625)

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784 - 1846)

Ruđer Josip Bošković (Dalmatia, 1711 - 1787)

Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546 - 1601)

C

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (France, 1625 - 1712)

Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598 - 1647)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India, USA, 1910 - 1995)

Nicolaus Copernicus (Prussia in Europe, 1473 - 1543)

D

Andre Louis Danjon (France, 1890 - 1967)

Willem de Sitter (Netherlands, 1872 - 1934)

Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978)

E

Arthur Eddington (England, 1882 - 1944)

F

David Fabricius (Netherlands, 1564 - 1617)

Johannes Fabricius (Netherlands, 1587 - 1615)

John Flamsteed, (England, 1646 - 1719)

G

Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564 - 1642)

Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777 - 1855)

David Gill (Britain, 1843 - 1914)

H

George Ellery Hale (USA, 1868 - 1938)

Asaph Hall (USA, 1829 - 1907)

Edmond Halley (England, 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

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)

Johann Heinrich Lambert (France, Germany, 1728 - 1777)

Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749 - 1827)

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (USA, 1868 - 1921)

Urbain Leverrier (1811 - 1877)

Bertil Lindblad (Sweden, 1895 - 1965)

Percival Lowell (USA, 1855 - 1916)

M

Adriaan van Maanen (USA, 1884 - 1946)

August Ferdinand Möbius (Germany, 1790 - 1868)

N

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 Oort (Netherlands, 1900 - 1992)

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 Keenan Seyfert (1911 - 1960)

Maarten Schmidt (1929 - )

Harlow Shapley, (USA, 1885 - 1972)

Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russia, 1916 - 1985)

Edward James Stone, (1831 - 1897)

T

Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906 - 1997)

Robert Trumpler (USA, 1886 - 1956)

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)