History of Astronomy:
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Persons
- A
- Abbadie, Antoine Thompson d' (1810-1897)
- Abbe, Cleveland (1838-1916)
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Abbe, Ernst (1840-1905)
- Abbot, Charles Greeley (1872-1973)
- Abel, Niels Henrik (1802-1829)
- Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie (1843-1920)
- Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi [Abraham Ben Chaja [Chija]; Abraham Judaeus] (c.1065-c.1136)
- Abu al-Fida' [Abu'l Fida; Abu'L-fida; Abulfeda], Ismail (1273-1331)
- Abu al-Wafa' [Abul Wafa; Abu'l-Wafa; Abul Wefa] Muhammad al-Buzjani (940-997)
- Adams, John Couch (1819-1892)
- Adelard of Bath (1075-1160)
- Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodosius (1724-1802)
- Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799)
- Agricola, Georgius [Bauer, Georg] (1494-1555)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Agrippa (fl. AD 92)
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius [Agrippa von Nettesheim] (1486-1535)
- Ailly, Pierre d' [Aliacensis; Petrus de Allaco] (1350-c.1420)
- Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892)
- Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951)
- Akhenaton [Akh(e)naten; Amenhotep (Amenophis) IV] (fl. 14th c. BC)
- al-Battani, Abu Allah [Abdallah] Mohammad ibn Jabir [Albategnius] (c.858-929)
- al-Biruni, Abu Raihan (973-1048)
- al-Farabi, Mohammed [Abu Nasr; Abu al-Nasr; Ablufarabius; Avennasar] (c. 870-950)
- al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid (1058-1128)
- al-Haitham, Abu Ali Hasan Ibn [Alhazen] (965-1040)
- al-Khwarizmi [al-Khawarizmi; al'Khwarizmi], Abu Abd-Allah [Abdullah; Ja'far] Mohammad [Muhammad] ibn Musa [Bin Musa] (c.780-c.850)
- al-Kindi, Yaqub Ibn Ishaq [Alkindus] (c.800-c.873)
- al-Razi [ar-Razi], Mohammad Ibn Zakariya (c.865-923/932)
- al-Zarqali [Arzachel; As Sarkali] (1028-1087)
- Albertus Magnus [Albert the Great; Albert der Große; Graf von (Count of) Bollstädt] (c.1200-1280)
- Albumazar [Abu Mashar; Abu-Mashar; Abu Maschar] (787-886)
- Alcuin (c.732-804)
- Alder, Kurt (1902-1958)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Aldrin, Edwin Eugene, Jr. ["Buzz"] (b. 1930)
- Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d' (1717-1783)
- Alexander the Great [A. der Große; A. of Macedon] (356 BC - 323 BC)
- Alfonso X [Alfons X. von Castilien; Alfonso the Astronomer; Alfonso the Wise] (1221-1284)
- Alfred the Great [Alfred der Große] (849-899)
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Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (1908-1995)
- Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari [Tabari, at-] (c.839-923)
- Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988)
- Ambartsumian [Ambarzumjan], Victor [Viktor] Amazasp [Amazaspovich] (1908-1996)
- Amici, Giovanni Battista (1786-1868)
- Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie (1718-1793)
- Amontons, Guillaume (1663-1705)
- Ampère, André Marie (1775-1836)
- Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning (1872-1928)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500 BC - c. 428 BC)
- Anaximander of Miletus (610 BC - 546/545 BC)
- Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 BC - c. 525 BC)
- Anders, William Alison (b. 1933)
- Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874)
- Ansgar [Angarius; Anskar], St (801-865)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Anville, Jean Baptiste [Jean-Baptiste] Bourguignon d' (1697-1782)
- Apollonius [Apollonios] of Perga (c.262 BC - c.190 BC)
- Appleton, Edward Victor (1892-1965)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853)
- Aratus [Aratos] (c. 315 BC - c. 245 BC)
- Archimedes of Syracuse (c.290/280 BC - 212/211 BC)
- Archytas of Tarentum (c. 428 BC - c. 350 BC)
- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875)
- Aristarchus [Aristarchos] of Samos (c.310 BC - 230 BC)
- Aristotle [Aristoteles] of Stagira (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Armstrong, Neil Alden (b. 1930)
- Arrest, Heinrich Louis d' (1822-1875)
- Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927)
- Artin, Emil (1898-1962)
- Aryabhata the Elder (476-550(499?))
- Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992)
- Aston, Francis William (1877-1945)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von (1838-1915)
- Avempace [Ibn Badsha; Ibn Badja; ibn Baddscha; Aven-Pace] (c.1095-1138/39)
- B
- Bacon, Roger (c.1214-c.1294)
- Bolzano, Bern[h]ard (1781-1848)
- Boole, George (1815-1864)
- Burglechner, Anton (1693-1760)
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Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)
Wolfgang R. Dick