1. Nasir Al-din Al-Tusi (1201)

Astronomer

Nasir Al-din Al-Tusi is a famous Astronomer, who was born on February 18, 1201 in Iran. Persian scholar who created the foundations for astronomy and trigonometry hundreds of years before...

2. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)

Astronomer

Nicolaus Copernicus is a famous Astronomer, who was born on February 19, 1473 in Poland. Renaissance astronomer best known as the first scientist to assert that the Earth revolves around...

3. Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625)

Astronomer

Giovanni Domenico Cassini is a famous Astronomer, who was born on June 8, 1625 in Italy. Italian astronomer, engineer and mathematician who was the first to notice the division of...

4. Ole Romer (1644)

Astronomer

Danish astronomer who made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light in 1676.

5. William Herschel (1738)

Astronomer

William Herschel is a famous Astronomer, who was born on November 15, 1738 in Germany. Famous Astronomer and composer who discovered infrared radiation, the planet Uranus, and two of its...

6. Caroline Herschel (1750)

Astronomer

German-British astronomer who contributed to the discovery of several comets including the 35P/Herschel-Rigollet comet, which is named after her. She is known as the first woman to be paid for...

7. Otto Wilhelm Von Struve (1819)

Astronomer

Otto Wilhelm Von Struve is a famous Astronomer, who was born on May 7, 1819 in Estonia. 19th century Russian astronomer and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who...

8. Williamina Fleming (1857)

Astronomer

Scottish astronomer remembered for having developed a workable system for cataloging stars under the tutelage of renowned astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. In 1888, she discovered the Horsehead Nebula.

9. James E. Keeler (1857)

Astronomer

James E. Keeler is a famous Astronomer, who was born on September 10, 1857 in United States. Astronomer who discovered the first pulsar and observed the rings of Saturn. Because...

10. Annie Jump Cannon (1863)

Astronomer

Annie Jump Cannon is a famous Astronomer, who was born on December 11, 1863 in United States. American astronomer who greatly impacted contemporary stellar classification when she created the Harvard...

11. Henrietta Leavitt (1868)

Astronomer

Astronomer who helped measure the relative brightness of Cepheid variables, which helped scientists to measure distances to stars. After her death her work was used to determine that the Milky...

12. A E Douglass (1867)

Astronomer

A E Douglass is a famous Astronomer, who was born on July 5, 1867 in United States. Astronomer remembered for establishing a wood ring-dating methodology called dendrochronology. He also researched...

13. George Van Biesbroeck (1880)

Astronomer

George Van Biesbroeck is a famous Astronomer, who was born on January 21, 1880 in Belgium. An observational astronomer who became known for his studies of double stars, asteroids, and...

14. Clyde Tombaugh (1906)

Astronomer

Clyde Tombaugh is a famous Astronomer, who was born on February 4, 1906 in United States. Astronomer who discovered Pluto, which is no longer considered a planet. He discovered nearly...

15. George Mueller (1918)

Astronomer

Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight from 1963 to 1969 who has been called one of NASA's 'most brilliant and fearless managers'. He played in an...

16. Andrea Ghez (1965)

Astronomer

Astronomer who, in 2004, was listed by Discover Magazine as one of the top 20 scientists in the U.S. who had shown a high degree of understanding in their respective...

17. Sarah Lee Lippincott (1920)

Astronomer

Sarah Lee Lippincott also known as Sarah Lee Lippincott Zimmerman is an American astronomer. She is Professor Emerita of Astronomy at Swarthmore College and Director Emerita of the college's Sproul...

18. Viktor Knorre (1840)

Astronomer

Viktor Karlovich Knorre Russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158...

19. Sami Solanki (1958)

Astronomer

Sami Khan Solanki is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and...

20. Chandra Wickramasinghe (1939)

Astronomer

Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician astronomer and astrobiologist. He is currently Professor and Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham a...

21. Brian O'Leary (1940)

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22. Akira Fujii (1941)

Astronomer

Akira Fujii is a noted Japanese astrophotographer and astronomer.

23. Riccardo Giovanelli (1946)

Astronomer

Riccardo Giovanelli is an Italian born astronomer. He works as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca New York United States.

24. Lyudmila Karachkina (1948)

Astronomer

Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is a former Soviet/Ukrainian astronomer. Working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1978 she discovered a number of asteroids including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and...

25. Heather Couper (1949)

Astronomer

Canadian artist and graphic designer see Heather CooperHeather Anita Couper CBE CPhys is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television and was president...

26. Marc Aaronson (1950)

Astronomer

Marc Aaronson was an American astronomer.

27. Charles R. Alcock (1951)

Astronomer

Charles Roger Al* is a British New Zealander astronomer. He is the current director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts.

28. J. Davy Kirkpatrick (1964)

Astronomer

J. Davy Kirkpatrick is an American astronomer at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena California. Kirkpatrick's research was named one of the...

29. Jane C. Charlton (1965)

Astronomer

Jane C. Charlton is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University where she is a specialist in galaxy formation and evolution.

30. Roberto Abraham (1965)

Astronomer

Roberto Abraham is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and an E. W. R. Steacie Fellow.

31. Anja Cetti Andersen (1965)

Astronomer

Anja Cetti Andersen is an astronomer and astrophysicist from Hørsholm Denmark.

32. Dirk Terrell (1965)

Astronomer

Dirk Terrell is an American astronomer and space artist who is the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section in the Department of Space Studies of the Space Science...

33. Jacques Laskar (1955)

Astronomer

Jacques Laskar is a French astronomer. He is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a member of Astronomy and dynamical systems of the Institute...

34. Duncan Steel (1955)

Astronomer

Duncan Steel is a famous Astronomer, who was born on June 11, 1955 in United Kingdom. Duncan G. Steel (born 1951) is an American experimental physicist, researcher and professor in...

35. Andrea M. Ghez (1965)

Astronomer

Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. In 2004 Discover magazine listed Ghez as one of the top 20...

36. Chris Impey (1956)

Astronomer

Christopher David Impey is a British astronomer educator and author. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1986. Impey has done research on observational cosmology...

37. Schelte J. Bus (Unknow)

Astronomer

Schelte John Bobby Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF. He received his B. S....

38. Heidi Hammel (1960)

Astronomer

Heidi B. Hammel is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She is Executive Vice President of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. She is...

39. Frédéric Petit (astronomer) (Unknow)

Astronomer

édéric Petit was a French astronomer. He was the first director of the Toulouse Observatory located in Toulouse France serving from 1838–1865. In 1846 he announced that he had discovered...

40. Wendy Freedman (1957)

Astronomer

Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer best known for her measurement of the Hubble Constant and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena California and Las Campanas Chile.

41. Merieme Chadid (1969)

Astronomer

Merieme Chadid is a Moroccan astronomer and researcher at Dome C Concordia Research Station in Antarctica. She led an international scientific program to install a major astronomical observatory in Antarctica.

42. Amy Barger (1971)

Astronomer

Dr. Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars black holes and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes...

43. Jānis Ikaunieks (1912)

Astronomer

Jānis Ikaunieks was a Latvian astronomer the founder of the Observatory of the Latvian Academy of Sciences at Baldones Riekstukalns and its first director. – Astrophysical Observatory of the...

44. Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (Unknow)

Astronomer

Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri was an important Indian natural philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century. Book II of his classic Shams-e-Bazeghi is on theoretical astronomy where he raises doubts about...

45. Abu al-Salt (1068)

Astronomer

Abū al‐Ṣalt Umayya ibn ʿAbd al‐ʿAzīz ibn Abī al‐Ṣalt al‐Dānī al‐Andalusī was an Andalusian polymath whose works on astronomical instruments were read both in the Islamic world and Europe. He...

46. Pamela L. Gay (1973)

Astronomer

Pamela L. Gay is an American astronomer educator podcaster and writer best known for her work in astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy projects. She works as an assistant research...

47. Victoria Kaspi (1967)

Astronomer

Victoria Michelle Vicky Kaspi is an American-Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

48. Karl Glazebrook (1965)

Astronomer

Karl Glazebrook is a famous Astronomer, who was born on May 11, 1965 in United Kingdom. Glazebrook was born in 1965 in the United Kingdom, and educated at the University...

49. Gonzalo Tancredi (1963)

Astronomer

Gonzalo Tancredi is a famous Astronomer, who was born on August 3, 1963 in Uruguay. Gonzalo Tancredi (born 8 March 1963) is an Uruguayan astronomer and full professor in the...

50. Yuri Ivashchenko (1961)

Astronomer

Yuri Ivashchenko is a famous Astronomer, who was born on April 12, 1961 in United Kingdomraine. Yuri Ivashchenko was born in Andrushivka, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine on April 12, 1961, the...