History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Persons (T)

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• Tabari: see Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari (838-870)
• Tacquet, Andreas [Andr&eacut;] (1612-1660)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800-1877)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography
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  • Find more about Talbot and astronomy with Alta Vista
• Tamm, Nils A. O. (1876-1957)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Tanaka, Haruo (b. 1922)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove) (26 Aug 1999: disappeared)
• Tannery, Paul (1843-1904)
  • Short biography, references and links (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1893
    Online edition (scanned)
  • Links (Geometry.Net)
• Tarde, Jean (1561/62-1636)
  • Biographical data and references
• Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
  • Between Padua, Bologna and Ferrara: Torquato Tasso student and professor, by Luigi Pepe
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• Tayler, Roger (1929-1997)
  • Obituary
• Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram, Sir (1886-1975)
  Relation to astronomy: applied hydrodynamics to Jupiter's Great Red Spot
  • Very short biography
• Taylor, Janet (19th century)
  • Very short biographical data
• Taylor, Joseph H. (b. 1941)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993
    Including an autobiography.
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Tebbutt, John (1834-1916)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Teller, Edward (b. 1908)
  Relation to astronomy: worked on applications of astrophysics to controlled thermonuclear reactions
  • Very short biography
• Tempel, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht (1821-1889)
  • Biography, reference and links, by Lutz Clausnitzer (in German)
  • Biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography, by Don Yeomans
  • Short biography and links, by Hartmut Frommert and Christine Kronberg
  • Very short biographical data, by Yann Pothier
  • Obituary, by J.L.E. Dreyer (Or see here.)
    From Monthly Notices RAS 50 (1890), 179.
  • Comet 9P/Tempel 1
  • Comet 9P/Tempel 1
  • Comet 10P/Tempel 2
  • Comet 11P/Tempel-Swift
  • Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
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  • Find more about Tempel with Google
• Tenskwatawa (?-1837)
  Relation to astronomy: predicted a solar eclipse
  • Very short biography
• Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna (b. 1937)
  Relation to astronomy: first woman in space
  • Very short biography
• Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)
  Relation to astronomy: anticipated radio communication with other planets
  • Short biography
• Thabit Ibn Qurra (836-901)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Or see here or here.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Thales of Miletus [Thales von Milet] (624 BC - 546 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning by Dmitri Panchenko
    From Configurations, 1993, 1.3:387-414. Including a chapter on The Explanation of the Nature of Solar Eclipses
  • Links to WWW sources
• Theodosius of Bithynia (c. 160 BC - c. 100 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 - c. 395)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Theon of Smyrna (c. 100 - c. 160)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Thiele, Thorvald Nicolai (1838-1910)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Thierry of Freburg [Thierry of Saxony] (fl. 1293-1310)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Thom, Alexander (1894-1945)
  • Very short biography
  • Thom and archaeoastronomy
• Thomas Aquinas (1224/25/27-1274)
  • Biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and links
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology, by William Carroll
  • Links to WWW sources
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• Thomas, Oswald (1882-1963)
  • Very short biography (Or see German version.)
• Thompson, John (1720-1783)
  • John Thompson, English Philomath - A Question of Land Surveying and Astronomy, by Dana A. Freiburger
• Thompson, Roland Dale (1895-1950)
  • Short biographical data and bibliography
  • Very short biography (under construction)
• Thomson, James Park (1854-1941)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Thomson, William [Lord Kelvin of Largs] (1824-1907)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Kelvin Papers, Cambridge University Library
• Thorndike, Lynn (1882-1965)
  Relation to astronomy: worked on the history of astrology
  • Very short biography
• Thurneisser zum Thurn, Leonhard (1531-1596)
  • Short biography (in German)
• Tiarks, Henry Frederick (1900-1995)
  • Obituary
• Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir ibn (1236-1312)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Tieffenthaler, Josef (1710-1785)
  • Very short biography (Or see German version.)
• Timocharis (ca. 200 BC)
  • Very short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Tinseau, D'Amondans Charles de (1748-1822)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Tisserand, Francois Félix (1845-1896)
  • Short biography and reference (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Titius, Johann Daniel (1729-1796)
  • Short biography (in German)
• Toaldo, Giuseppe (1719-1797)
  • Short biography and reference
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Todd, Charles (1826-1910)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Todd, Mabel Loomis (1856-1932)
  • Short biography
• Tombaugh, Clyde William (1906-1997)
  • Biographies, discovery of Pluto, and links
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
  • Very short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography and links
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography and links
  • The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet, by Clyde W. Tombaugh
  • Pluto: The Discovery of Planet X, by Brad Mager
  • Pluto Express Curriculum Guides for Educators, Vol. 1 No. 1
    Also on the history of discovery of Pluto.
  • Burdett, KS and Dr. Clyde Tombaugh
  • Discoverer of Pluto
    On the historical marker at Burdett, with a short biography.
  • Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
  • Clyde W. Tombaugh Campus Observatory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
  • Clyde Tombaugh Astronomy Center, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
  • Clyde W. Tombaugh OMNIMAX Theater and Planetarium, Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA
  • Tombaugh Elementary School, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
    Including a very short biography and links.
  • Links to WWW sources
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• Tompion, Thomas (c.1639-1713)
  • Very short biography
• Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Links to WWW sources
• Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo (1397-1482)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Towneley, Richard (1629-1707)
  • Biographical data and references
• Townes, Charles Hard (b. 1915)
  Relation to astronomy: applied maser-laser technology to astrophysics
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
    Including a biography
  • Very short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biographical data, links
  • Britannica Online entries
  • Portrait, workshop
  • References
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• Triesnecker, Franz von Paula [Francis a Paula] (1745-1817)
  • Short biography
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Troughton, Edward (1753-1836)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Trumpler, Robert Julius (1886-1956)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Tscherenkow: see Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)
• Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walter von (1651-1708)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
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• Tsiolkovsky [Ciolkovskij, Ziolkowski], Konstantin Eduardovich [Eduardowitsch] (1857-1935)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography (See also here.)
  • Very short biography (in German)
  • Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Kaluga, Russia (See also here.)
  • K. E. Tsiolkovsky Museum, Izhevskoe, Ryazan region, Russia
• Tsu Ch'ung Chi (430-501)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821-1873)
  Relation to astronomy: studied also astronomy
  • Very short biography
• Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Tutte, William (b. 1917)
  • Short biography
• Tycho Brahe: see Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 19 Feb 2003