History of Astronomy:
What's new at this site on June 22, 2000
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Persons
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- Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956)
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Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951)
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Short biography and references (C. Plicht)
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Very short biography (Ciel Extr.)
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Address ... in awarding the Bruce Gold Medal to to Dr. Robert G. Aitken,
by Benfield, Bernard (+
last page)
- PASP 38 (1926) 221, 2-14
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Address ... on the award of the Gold Medal of the Society awarded to Dr.
Robert Grant Aitken for his work on double stars, by Knox-Shaw, H.
- MNRAS 92 (1932) 4, 354-360
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Robert Grant Aitken, by van den Bos, W. H.
- MNRAS 112 (1952) 3, 271-273 (Obituary Notices)
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Robert Grant Aitken, 1864-1951, by Jeffers, Hamilton M.
- PASP 64 (1952) 376, 5-10
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The Robert G. Aitken Memorial Fund
- PASP 65 (1953) 382, 64
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Britannica Online entries
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Works (LoC entries)
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Works (ADS entries)
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References (LoC entries)
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References (ADS entries)
- Aldhelm (c.639-709)
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Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (1908-1995)
- 'Amili, Baha' ad-din Muhammad ibn Husayn, al- [Shaykh Baha'i] (1546-1622)
- Anderson, Carl David (1905-1991)
- Andronicus of Cyrrhus [Andronicus Cyrrhestes] (fl. c. 100 BC)
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Auwers, Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur [von] (1838-1915)
- B
- Babbage, Charles (1792-1871)
- Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968)
- Babcock, Horace Welcome (b. 1912)
- Bacon, Roger (c.1220-c.1292)
- Baer, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Baffin, William (c.1584-1622)
- Bailly, Jean Sylvain (1736-1793)
- Baily, Francis (1774-1844)
- Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898)
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Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806)
- Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Bardesanes [Bar-Daisan] (154-c.222)
- Barkly, Henry (1815-1898)
- Barlow, Peter (1776-1862)
- Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923)
- Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)
- Bartholin, Erasmus (1625-1698)
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus [Engl. Bartholomew The Englishman] (fl. c. 1220-1240)
- Bayer, Johann (1572-1625)
- Becquerel, Antoine Henri (1852-1908)
- Beer, Wilhelm (1797-1850)
- Behaim, Martin (1459-1507)
- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Bellarmino [Bellarmine], Roberto [Robert] (1542-1621)
- Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
- Bernoulli, Johann [Jean] (1667-1748)
- Bernoulli, Jacob [Jakob, Jacques] (1654-1705)
- Berosus [Berosós; Berossós; Berossos von Babylon; Akkadian Bel-usur] (c. 345 BC - c. 270 BC)
- Bertrand, Joseph Louis François (1822-1900)
- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848)
- Solar system feature named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
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Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846)
- Bethe, Hans Albrecht (b. 1906)
- Bhaskara (1114-c.1185)
- Biela, Wilhelm von (1782-1856)
- Biot, Jean-Baptiste [Jean Baptiste] (1774-1862)
- Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944)
- Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren (1862-1951)
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart [Baron Blackett of Chelsea] (1897-1974)
- Bode, Johann Elert (1747-1826)
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Servinus (c.480-524)
- Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962)
- Bok, Bart Jan (1906-1983)
- Bolton, John Gatenby (1922-1993)
- Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844-1906)
- Bolyai, János [Johann] (1802-1860)
- Bolzano, Bern[h]ard (1781-1848)
- Relation to astronomy: Wrote "Christ. Doppler's neueste Leistungen
auf dem Gebiete der physikalischen Apparatenlehre, Akustik, Optik u.
optischen Astronomie"
- Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859)
- Bondi, Hermann, Sir (b. 1919)
- Boole, George (1815-1864)
- Borda, Jean Charles [Jean-Charles de] (1733-1799)
- Borel, Félix Édouard Justin Émile (1871-1956)
- Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679)
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Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)
Wolfgang R. Dick