History of Astronomy


History of Astronomy: Persons


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Short biographies and links

The following pages include not only astronomers, but also persons with relation to astronomy: Scholars from other fields who did investigations in astronomy, makers of astronomical instruments, etc. In some cases the only relation to astronomy is that a feature on the Moon or on other planets was named after that specific person. Astronauts are included only when there was some relation of their work to astronomy.

A document containing information on astronomers and related scientists is hyperlinked here only in case it provides more or less extended biographical data or it is devoted exclusively to a single person. For a large number of short biographies see the hyperlinks in the document More biographies.

Currently, the following pages contain more than 4600 different links to external documents for more than 1750 persons or on general items.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Index of all persons from A to Z

More biographies / Sources and other lists

Unsorted and roughly sorted links


A Finding List of Obituary Notes of Astronomers (1900 - 1997)

Compiled by Hilmar W. Duerbeck and Beatrix Ott, with contributions by Wolfgang R. Dick

Contains more than 9000 bibliographical entries for obituaries and short obituary notes.


Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomy : Discussion of a Project


Wolfgang R. Dick Created: 9 Feb 1995. Latest change of this page: 24 Oct 2001