History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Index of Persons

    A

  1. Aaronson, Marc (1950-1987)
  2. Abbadie, Antoine Thompson d' (1810-1897)
  3. Abbe, Cleveland (1838-1916)
  4. Abbe, Ernst (1840-1905)
  5. Abbon de Fleury [Abbo of Fleury; Albo; Albon Floriacensis] (c. 945-1004)
  6. Abbot, Charles Greeley (1872-1973)
  7. Abbott, Francis (1799-1883)
  8. Abbott, Francis (jnr) (1834-1903)
  9. Abel, Niels Henrik (1802-1829)
  10. Abell, George Ogden (1927 - 1983)
  11. Abetti, Antonio (1846-1928)
  12. Abetti, Giorgio (1882-1982)
  13. Abiosi [Abbiosi], Giovanni Battista [Jean-Baptiste] (fl. 1490-1520)

    Ablufarabius: see al-Farabi, Mohammed (ca. 870-950)

  14. Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie (1843-1920)
  15. Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi [Abraham Ben Chaja [Chija]; Abraham Judaeus] (ca. 1070-1136(?))
  16. Abraham Ben Dior [Ben David, Harischon; Josophat Ben Levi] (12th c.)

    Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra: see Ezra, Abraham ben Meir ibn (1092-1167)

  17. Abraham Zachut (15th c.)

    Abu Abdallah al-Battani (868-929): see al-Battani
    Abu al-Hasan: see Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari (838-870)
    Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (965-1040): see al-Haitham
    Abu al-Nasr al-Farabi (870-950): see al-Farabi

  18. Abu Dschaasar Almansur (712-775)

    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1128): see al-Ghazali
    Abu Mashar: see Albumazar (787-885)
    Abu Raihan al-Biruni (973-1048): see al-Biruni

  19. Abu'l Fida [Abulfeda], Ismail (1273-1331)
  20. Abul Wafa [Abu'l-Wafa] Muhammad al-Buzjani (940-997)

    Achmed Ibn Ketir: see al-Farghani [Alfraganus]

  21. Achmed Ibn Mohammed Alfagan Abu Hamed (?-980)
  22. Acosta, Cristobal (1515-ca.1594)
  23. Acronius, Johann[es] (1520-1564)
  24. Adam von Bremen [Adam of Bremen] (?-c.1085)
  25. Adams, Charles Edward (1870-1945)
  26. Adams, Charles H. (1868 - 1951)
  27. Adams, George (?-1786)
  28. Adams, George (1750-1795)
  29. Adams, John Couch (1819-1892)
  30. Adams, John Frank (1930-1989)
  31. Adams, Philip Francis (1828-1901)
  32. Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956)
  33. Adams, William Grylls (1836-1915)
  34. Adderley, Ernest Edward (1914-1993[1992?])
  35. Adelard of Bath (1075-1160)
  36. Adelbulner, Michael (1702-1779)

    Adierna: see Odierna, Gioanbatista [Giovan/Giovanni Battista] (1597-1660)

  37. Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodosius (1724-1802)
  38. Affleck, Ian Keith (b. 1952)
  39. Aganice (ca.1878 BC)
  40. Agardh, John Mortimer (1812-1862)
  41. Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873)
  42. Agatharchides of Cnidus (? - ca. 150 BC)
  43. Aglaonike (ca.200 BC)
  44. Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799)
  45. Agricola, Georgius [Bauer, Georg] (1494-1555)
  46. Agrippa (fl. AD 92)
  47. Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius [Agrippa von Nettesheim] (1486-1535)
  48. Ahmad Khan, Khwajah Farid al-din (1747-1828)
  49. Ailly, Pierre d' [Aliacensis; Petrus de Allaco] (1350-ca.1420)
  50. Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892)
  51. Aitken, Alexander Craig (1895-1967)
  52. Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951)
  53. Ajima, Chokuyen Naonobu (1732-1798)
  54. Åkerman, Anders (1721-1778)
  55. Akhenaton [Akh(e)naten; Amenhotep (Amenophis) IV] (fl. 14th c. BC)
  56. Al-Baghdadi, Abu Mansur ibn Tahir (c.980-1037)
  57. Al-Bakri, A. A. (1010-1094)
  58. Al-Banna, al-Marrakushi ibn (1256-1321)
  59. al-Battani, Abu Allah [Abdallah] Mohammad ibn Jabir [Albategnius] (ca.868-929)
  60. al-Biruni, Abu Raihan (973-1048)

    al-Buzjani: see Abul Wafa Muhammad al-Buzjani (940-997)

  61. al-Farabi, Mohammed [Abu Nasr; Abu al-Nasr; Ablufarabius; Avennasar] (ca. 870-950)
  62. al-Farghani (ca. 860)
  63. al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid (1058-1128)
  64. al-Haitham, Abu Ali Hasan Ibn [Alhazen] (965-1040)
  65. Al-Khalili, Shams al-Din Abu Abdallah (c.1320-c.1380)

    al-Khawarizmi: see al-Khwarizmi (800-ca.850)

    al-Khayyam, Omar: see Khayyam, Omar (ca.1044-ca.1123)

  66. al-Khwarizmi [al-Khawarizmi; al'Khwarizmi], Abu Abd-Allah [Abdullah; Ja'far] Mohammad [Muhammad] ibn Musa [Bin Musa] (ca.800-ca.850)
  67. al-Kindi, Yaqub Ibn Ishaq [Alkindus] (c.800-c.873)
  68. al-Maghribi, Muhyi l'din (c.1220-c.1283)
  69. Al-Marrakushi (fl. ca. 1262)
  70. al-Quhi, Abu Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam (ca. 940 - ca. 1000)
  71. al-Razi, Mohammad Ibn Zakariya (864-930)
  72. Al Sufi, Abd-al-Rahman [Abr-ar Rahman As Sufi; Abd al Rahman Abu al Husain; Azophi] (903-986)

    al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201-1274): see Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

  73. al-Zarqali [Arzachel or As Sarkali] (around 1080)

    Albategnius: see al-Battani, Abu Abdallah (ca.868-929)

  74. Alberti, Gioachino (19th c.)
  75. Albertus Magnus [Albert the Great; Graf von (Count of) Bollstädt] (ca.1200-1280)
  76. Albumazar [Abu Mashar; Abu-Mashar; Abu Maschar] (787-885)
  77. Alcock, George E. D. (b. 1912)
  78. Alcuin (c.732-804)
  79. Alden, Harold Lee (1890-1964)
  80. Alder, Kurt (1902-1958)
  81. Aldhelm (c.639-709)
  82. Alcmaeon of Croton [Alkmaion von Kroton] (ca. 535 BC - ?)
  83. Aldrin, Edwin Eugene, Jr. ["Buzz"] (b. 1930)
  84. Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d' (1717-1783)
  85. Alenio, Giulio (1582-1644)
  86. Alexander the Great [A. der Große; A. of Macedon] (356 BC - 323 BC)
  87. Alexandre, Jacques (1653-1734)
  88. Alfonso X [Alfons X. von Castilien; Alfonso the Astronomer; Alfonso the Wise] (1221-1284)

    Alfraganus: see al-Farghani

  89. Alfred the Great [Alfred der Große] (849-899)
  90. Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (1908-1995)

    Alhazen: see al-Haitham, Abu Ali Hasan Ibn (965-1040)

  91. Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari (838-870)

    Alkmaion von Kroton: see Alcmaeon of Croton (ca. 535 BC - ?)

  92. Allen, Clabon Walter (1904-1987)
  93. Allen, David (1946-1994)
  94. Alpetragius [Al-Bitruji, Nur al-Din Ibn Ishaq; Al Betrugi, Nur Ed-Din; al Bidrudschi, Nur ad din] (? - ca. 1100)
  95. Alpher, Ralph Asher (b. 1921)
  96. Alter, David (1807-1881)
  97. Althoff, Friedrich Theodor (1839-1908)
  98. Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988)
  99. Alzate y Ramirez, José Antonio (1738-1799)
  100. Ambartsumian [Ambarzumjan], Viktor Amazaspovich (1908-1996)
  101. Ambolt, Nils Peter (1900-1969)
  102. Ambronn, Leopold Friedrich Anton (1854-1930)
  103. Ambronn, Richard (1887-1954)

    Amenhotep (Amenophis) IV: see Akhenaton (fl. 14th c. BC)

  104. Ames, Nathaniel (1708-1764)
  105. Amici, Giovanni Battista (1786-1868)
  106. 'Amili, Baha' ad-din Muhammad ibn Husayn, al- [Shaykh Baha'i] (1546-1622)
  107. Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie (1718-1793)
  108. Ammen, Daniel (1820-1898)
  109. Amontons, Guillaume (1663-1705)
  110. Ampère, André Marie (1775-1836)
  111. Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning (1872-1928)
  112. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (ca. 500 B.C. - ca. 428 B.C.)
  113. Anaximander of Miletus (611 BC - 547 BC)
  114. Anaximenes of Miletus (ca. 585 BC - ca. 525 BC)
  115. Anders, William Alison (b. 1933)
  116. Anderson, Carl David (1905-1991)
  117. Anderson, Don Lynn (b. 1933)
  118. Anderson, Henry James (1799-1875)
  119. Anderson, John A. (1876-1959)

    Andreae, Iohannes: see Schindel, Iohannes (fl. 14th-15th c.)

  120. Andreae, Johann Valentin (1586-1654)
  121. Andronicus of Cyrrhus [Andronicus Cyrrhestes] (fl. c. 100 BC)
  122. Angel, James Roger Prior (b. 1941)
  123. Angelitti, Filippo (1856-1931)
  124. Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874)
  125. Anianus (fl. 412)
  126. Ansgar [Angarius; Anskar], St (801-865)
  127. Anthelme, Voituret (ca.1618-1683)
  128. Anthonisz, Adriaan (ca. 1543 - 1620)
  129. Anville, Jean Baptiste [Jean-Baptiste] Bourguignon d' (1697-1782)
  130. Apian [Bienewitz or Bennewitz], Peter (1495-1552)
  131. Apollonius [Apollonios] of Perga (200 BC - 100 BC)
  132. Appleton, Edward Victor (1892-1965)
  133. Apt, Jay (b. 1949)
  134. Aquila (fl. 2nd c.)

    Aquinas, Thomas: see Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)

  135. Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853)
  136. Aratus [Aratos] (ca. 315 BC - ca. 245 BC)
  137. Archelaus (fl. 5th c. BC)
  138. Archenhold, Friedrich Simon (1861-1939)
  139. Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC - 212 BC)
  140. Archytas of Tarentum (ca. 428 BC - ca. 350 BC)
  141. Arctowski, Henryk (1871-1958)
  142. Ardeberg, Arne (b. 1940)
  143. Ardenne, Manfred von (1907-1997)
  144. Argand, Emile (1879-1940)
  145. Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875)
  146. Argoli, Andrea (1570-1657)
  147. Aristarchus of Samos (310 BC - 230 BC)
  148. Aristillus (ca. 200 BC)
  149. Aristotle of Stagira (384 BC - 322 BC)
  150. Armstrong, Neil Alden (b. 1930)
  151. Arnaldus Villanovanus [Arnaldus of Villanueva] (1235/1240-1312/1313)
  152. Arnold, James Richard (b. 1923)
  153. Arnold, John (1736-1799)
  154. Arp, Halton Christian (b. 1927)
  155. Arrest, Heinrich Louis d' (1822-1875)
  156. Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927)
  157. Artin, Emil (1898-1962)
  158. Aryabhata the Elder (476-550(499?))

    Arzachel: see al-Zarqali (around 1080)
    As Sarkali: see al-Zarqali (around 1080)

  159. Asada Goryu (1734-1799)
  160. Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692)
  161. Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992)
  162. Assemani, Simeon (1752-1821)
  163. Aston, Francis William (1877-1945)
  164. Atwood, George (ca.1745-1807)
  165. Audiffredi [Audifreddi ?], Giovanni Battista [Giombattista] [orig. Gulio Cesare] (1734-1794)
  166. Augustus, Caesar (63 BC - AD 14)
  167. Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (c. 310-c. 395)
  168. Autolycus of Pitane [Autolykos aus Pitane] (c. 360 BC - c. 290 BC)
  169. Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von (1838-1915)
  170. Auzout, Adrien (1622-1691)
  171. Avempace [Ibn Badsha; Ibn Badja; ibn Baddscha; Aven-Pace] (end of 11th c.-ca.1138)

    Avennasar: see al-Farabi, Mohammed (ca. 870-950)
    Averroes: see Ibn Rushd (1128-1198)
    Avicenna: see Ibn Sina (980-1037)

  172. Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856)
  173. Axford, William Ian (b. 1933)

    B

  174. Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter (1893-1960)
  175. Babbage, Charles (1792-1871)
  176. Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968)
  177. Babcock, Horace Welcome (b. 1912)
  178. Bache, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867)
  179. Bachmann, Augustus Quirinus [Rivinus] (1652-1723)
  180. Backlund, Jöns Oskar (1846-1916)
  181. Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
  182. Bacon, Roger (ca.1214-ca.1294)
  183. Baer, Karl von (1792-1876)
  184. Baeyer, Johann Jacob (1794-1885)
  185. Baffin, William (ca.1584-1622)
  186. Baillaud, Édouard Benjamin (1848-1934)
  187. Bailly, Jean Sylvain (1736-1793)
  188. Baily, Francis (1774-1844)
  189. Bainbridge, John (1582-1643)
  190. Baker, Henry Frederick (1866-1956)
  191. Baldwin, John (20th c.)
  192. Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878-1945)
  193. Ball, Leo Anton Carl de (1853-1916)
  194. Ball, Robert Stawell (1840-1913)
  195. Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898)
  196. Bamberg, Carl (1847-1892)
  197. Bancroft, George (1800-1891)
  198. Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806)
  199. Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941)
  200. Banu Musa, Muhammad / Ahmad / al-Hasan (fl. 9th c.)
  201. Bappu, Manali Kallat Vainu (1927-1982)
  202. Bar Hebræus [Bar 'Ebraya; Abu'l Faraj] (1226-1286)
  203. Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto (1851-1926)
  204. Baranzano, Giovanni Antonio [Redento] (1590-1622)

    Barberini, Maffeo: see Urban VIII

  205. Barbier, Joseph Émile (1839-1889)
  206. Barclay, Andrew (c.1814-1900)
  207. Bardesanes [Bar-Daisan] (154(164?)-222)
  208. Barkly, Henry (1815-1898)
  209. Barlow, Peter (1776-1862)
  210. Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923)
  211. Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (1809-1889)
  212. Barnum, Charlotte Cynthia (1860-1934)
  213. Barocius [Barozzi], Franciscus [Francesco] (1537-1604)
  214. Barrett, Alan H. (1927?-1991)
  215. Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)
  216. Bartholin, Erasmus (1625-1698)
  217. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (fl.1224-1231)
  218. Bartsch, Jacob (1599/1600 - 1632/33)
  219. Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich [Bassow, Nikolai Gennadijewitsch] (b. 1922)
  220. Bates, Richard Heaton Tunstall (1929-1990)
  221. Bay, Zoltán (1900-1992)
  222. Bayer, Johann (1572-1625)
  223. Beals, Carlyle Smith (1899-1979)
  224. Beames, Ken (1899-1989)
  225. Bean, Alan LaVern (b. 1932)
  226. Beaugrand, Jean (ca. 1595 - ca. 1640)

    Beaune, Florimond de: see Debeaune, Florimond (1601-1652)
    Beck, Aloys, Edler von Widmannstätten: see Widmannstätten, Alois von Beckh- (1753/54-1849)

  227. Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond (1820-1891)
  228. Becquerel, Antoine Henri (1852-1908)
  229. Beda Venerabilis [Baeda; Engl. The Venerable Bede] (ca.673-735)
  230. Beeckman, Isaac (1588-1637)
  231. Beer, Wilhelm (1797-1850)
  232. Behaim, Martin (1459-1507)
  233. Belfield, Algernon H. (? - ?)
  234. Belgrado, Jacopo [Giacopo] (1704-1789)
  235. Bell, Alexander (1847-1922)
  236. Bell Burnell [Bell; Bell-Burnell], Susan Jocelyn (b. 1943)
  237. Bellarmino [Bellarmine], Roberto [Robert] (1542-1621)
  238. Belopolskij [Belopolsky], Aristarkh Apollonovich [Aristarch Apollonowitsch] (1859-1934)
  239. Benedetti, Giovanni Battista (1530-1590)
  240. Bennett, Willard Harrison (1903-1987)
  241. Benoît, Michel (1715-1774)
  242. Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich (1777-1849)
  243. Berenice II (c. 269 BC-221 BC)
  244. Bergstrand, Carl Östen Emanuel (1873-1948)
  245. Bernacchi, Louis Charles (1876-1942)
  246. Bernoulli (family)
  247. Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
  248. Bernoulli, Jacob [Jakob, Jacques] (1654-1705)
  249. Bernoulli, Johann [Jean] (1667-1748)
  250. Bernstein, Jeremy (b. 1929)
  251. Berosus [Berosós; Berossós; Berossos von Babylon] (ca. 345 BC - ca. 270 BC)
  252. Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807)
  253. Berti, Gasparo (ca.1600-1643)
  254. Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois (1822-1900)
  255. Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848)
  256. Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846)
  257. Bessemer, Henry, Sir (1813-1898)
  258. Bethe, Hans Albrecht (b. 1906)
  259. Bevis, John (1695-1771)
  260. Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1909-1966)
  261. Bhaskara (1114-1185)
  262. Bianchini, Francesco (1662-1729)
  263. Bickel, Lennard (20th c.)
  264. Biela, Wilhelm von (1782-1856)
  265. Biermann, Ludwig Franz Benedikt (1907-1986)
  266. Biggs, Alfred Barrett (1825-1900)
  267. Bigourdan, Guillaume (1851-1932)
  268. Bilfinger, Georg Bernhard (1693-1750)
  269. Billy, Jacques de (1602-1679)
  270. Binet, Jacques-Philippe-Marie [Jacques Philippe Marie] (1786-1856)
  271. Biot, Jean-Baptiste [Jean Baptiste] (1774-1862)
  272. Birch, Peter Vaughan (b. 1949)
  273. Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944)
  274. Bishop, Roy (20th c.)
  275. Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren (1862-1951)
  276. Blaauw, Adriaan (b. 1914)
  277. Black, Joseph (1728-1799)
  278. Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974)
  279. Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
  280. Bliss, Gilbert Ames (1876-1951)
  281. Bliss, Nathaniel (1700-1764)
  282. Blyth, John (fl. 20th c.)
  283. Bobillier, Etienne (1798-1840)
  284. Bochart de Saron, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (1730-1794)
  285. Bode, Johann Elert (1747-1826)
  286. Boethius, Anicius Manilius Servinus (480-524)
  287. Bohlin, Karl Petrus T[h]eodor (1860-1939)
  288. Bohnenberger, Johann Gottlob Friedrich von (1765-1831)
  289. Bohr, Harald August (1887-1951)
  290. Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962)
  291. Bok, Bart Jan (1906-1983)
  292. Bolton, John Gatenby (1922-1993)
  293. Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)
  294. Bolyai, Farkas [Wolfgang] (1775-1856)
  295. Bolyai, János [Johann] (1802-1860)
  296. Bolzano, Bern[h]ard (1781-1848)
  297. Bonaventura, Federigo (1555-1602)
  298. Boncompagni, Balthasar (1821-1894)
  299. Bond, George Phillips (1825-1865)
  300. Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859)
  301. Bondi, Hermann (b. 1919)
  302. Bonestell, Chesley (1888-1986)
  303. Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)
  304. Bonnet, Pierre Ossian (1819-1892)
  305. Boole, George (1815-1864)
  306. Booth, Edgar Harold (1893-1963)
  307. Borchardt, Carl Wilhelm (1817-1880)
  308. Borda, Jean Charles [Jean-Charles de] (1733-1799)
  309. Borel, Félix Édouard Justin Émile (1871-1956)
  310. Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679)
  311. Borman, Frank (b. 1928)
  312. Born, Max (1882-1970)
  313. Borra, Ermanno Franco (20th c.)
  314. Borrus [Borri; Burrus], Christopher (1583-1632)
  315. Bosch, Carl (1874-1940)

    Boscovich: see Boskovic

  316. Bose, Jagadis Chandra (1858-1937)
  317. Bose, Satyendra Nath [Satyendranath] (1894-1974)
  318. Boskovic [Boscovich], Rudjer Joseph [Ruggiero Giuseppe; Rodger Joseph] (1711-1787)
  319. Boss, Lewis (1846-1912)
  320. Bossut, Charles (1730-1814)
  321. Bothe, Walther (1891-1957)
  322. Bouguer, Pierre (1698-1758)
  323. Boulainvilliers, Henri de, Comte de (count of) Saint-saire (1658-1722)
  324. Boulliau [Bouillaud], Ismael [Bullialdus] (1605-1694)
  325. Bourgainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811)
  326. Bouvard, Alexis (1767-1843)
  327. Bouvet, Joachim (?-1732)
  328. Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773-1838)
  329. Bowdoin, James (1726-1790)
  330. Bowen, Edward George (1911-1991)
  331. Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973)
  332. Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
  333. Boyle, Willard S. (b. 1924)
  334. Boys, Charles Vernon (1855-1944)
  335. Bracewell, Ronald Newbold (b. 1921)
  336. Brackett, Frederick Sumner (1896-1972)
  337. Bradley, James (1693-1762)
  338. Brag, Jonas (1781-1857)
  339. Bragg, William Henry (1862-1942)
  340. Brahe, Sofie [Sophia] (1556-1643)
  341. Brahe, Tycho [Brahe, Tyge; Brahe, Tycho de] (1546-1601)
  342. Brahmagupta (ca. 598 - ca. 665)
  343. Brander, Georg Friedrich (1713-1783)
  344. Brandes, Heinrich Wilhelm (1777-1834)
  345. Brashear, John Alfred (1840-1920)
  346. Brattle, Thomas (1658-1713)
  347. Braun, Karl Ferdinand (1850-1918)
  348. Braun, Wernher von (1912-1977)
  349. Bredman, Johan (1770-1859)
  350. Breguet, Abraham-Louis (1747-1823)
  351. Brendel, Martin (1862-1939)
  352. Brewster, David (1781-1868)
  353. Brianchon, Charles Julien (1783-1864)
  354. Briggs, Daniel S. (1964-1998)
  355. Briggs, George Henry (1893-1987)
  356. Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
  357. Bring, Erland Samuel (1736-1798)
  358. Brioschi, Francesco (1824-1897)
  359. Briot, Charles Auguste (1817-1882)
  360. Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall (1773-1860)
  361. Brooks, Joseph (1847-1918)
  362. Brouncker, William (ca.1620-1684)
  363. Brouwer, Dirk (1902-1966)
  364. Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966)
  365. Brown, Ernest William (1866-1938)
  366. Brown, Peter (20th c.)
  367. Brown, Robert Hanbury (b. 1916)
  368. Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
  369. Browne, William Rowan (1884-1975)
  370. Brozek, Jan [Broscius, Brocki, Broski, Broszcz, Brzoski, Zbroek] (1585-1652)
  371. Bruce, William (1833-1927)
  372. Brunner, William Otto (1878-1958)
  373. Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600)
  374. Bruns, Ernst Heinrich (1848-1919)

    Buergi: see Bürgi, Joost (1552-1632)

  375. Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788)
  376. Bulgaris, Eugenius (1716-1806)
  377. Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899)
  378. Buot, Jacques (ca.1675- ?)
  379. Burbank, Daniel C. (b. 1961)
  380. Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret Peachey (b. 1919)
  381. Burbidge, Geoffrey (b. 1925)
  382. Burckhardt, Johann Karl (1773-1825)
  383. Bürg, Johann Tobias (1766-1835)
  384. Bürgi [Buergi], Joost (1552-1632)
  385. Burglechner, Anton (1693-1760)
  386. Buridan [Buridano], John (14th century)
  387. Burke-Gaffney, Michael Walter, S. J. (1896-1979)
  388. Burney, Charles (1726-1814)
  389. Burnham, Sherburne Wesley (1838-1921)
  390. Büttner, Wolfgang (b. 1905)
  391. Buys-Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Didericus (1817-1890)

    C

  392. Cacciatore, Gaetano (1814-1889)
  393. Cacciatore, Niccolò [Nicolò] (1780-1841)
  394. Caccini, Tommaso (1574-1648)
  395. Caesar, Julius (100? BC - 44 BC)
  396. Cahill, Daniel William (1796-1864)
  397. Cajori, Florian (1859-1930)
  398. Callippus of Cyzicus (ca. 370 BC - ca. 310 BC)
  399. Calvin, John (1509-1564)
  400. Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639)
  401. Campani, Giuseppe (1635-1715)
  402. Campanus of Novara [Campano, Giovanni] (1220-1296)
  403. Campbell, Catherine Celeste (1905-?)
  404. Campbell, William Wallace (1862-1938)
  405. Candy, Michael Philip (1928-1994)
  406. Canivet (...-1774)
  407. Cannizzaro, Stanislao [Stanislav] (1826-1910)
  408. Cannon, Annie Jump (1863-1941)
  409. Cantelli, Francesco Paolo (1875-1966)
  410. Canton, John (1718-1772)
  411. Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845-1918)
  412. Cantor, Moritz Benedikt (1829-1920)
  413. Capella, Martianus (fl. 5th c.)
  414. Capra, Baldassar [Baldassarre] (1580-1626)
  415. Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan (1606-1682)
  416. Carathéodory, Constantin (1873-1950)
  417. Carbonnelle, Ignatius (1829-1889)
  418. Carcavi [Carcavy], Pierre de (ca. 1600 - 1684)
  419. Cardan [Cardano; Cardanus], Jerome [Geronimo; Hieronymus; Girolamo] (1501-1576)
  420. Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite (1753-1823)
  421. Caron, Antoine (c.1515-1593)
  422. Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826-1875)
  423. Carruthers, George R. (b. 1939)
  424. Cartan, Elie Joseph (1869-1951)
  425. Carter, Charles Rooking (1822-1896)
  426. Cassini (family)
  427. Cassini, Gian Domenico [Giovanni Domenico; Jean Dominique] [Cassini I] (1625-1712)
  428. Cassini, Jacques [Cassini II] (1677-1756)
  429. Cassini, Jacques Dominique [Cassini IV] (1748-1845)
  430. Cassini de Thury, César-François [Cassini III] (1714-1784)
  431. Castelli, Benedetto (1578-1643)
  432. Castillon, Giovan Francesco Mauro Melchior [Johann] (1704[1708?]-1791)
  433. Castner [Kastner], Caspar (1655-1709)
  434. Cataldi, Pietro Antonio (1552-1626)
  435. Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)
  436. Cavalieri, Bonaventura (1598?-1647)
  437. Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
  438. Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895)
  439. Cecco d'Ascoli (1250/1258/1269?-1327)
  440. Cellarius, Andreas (c.1596-1665)
  441. Cellérier, Charles (1818-1889)
  442. Celsius, Anders (1701-1744)

    Cerenkov: see Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)

  443. Cerulli, Vincenzo (1859-1927)
  444. Cesi, Federico (1585-1630)
  445. Chadwick, James (1891-1974)
  446. Challis, James (1803-1882)
  447. Chalonge, Daniel (1895-1977)
  448. Chamberlain, Noel Gordon (b. 1916)
  449. Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843-1928)
  450. Chandler, Seth Carlo (1846-1913)
  451. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995)

    Chang Heng: see Zhang Heng (78-139)

  452. Chant, Clarence Augustus (1865-1956)
  453. Chaplygin [Tschaplygin], Sergej Alekseevich (1869-1942)
  454. Chapman, John Herbert (1921-1979)
  455. Chapman, Sydney (1888-1970)
  456. Charles II, King of England (1630-1685)
  457. Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludwig (1862-1934)
  458. Châtelet, Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du (1706-1749)
  459. Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca. 1343-1400)
  460. Chebyshev [Tschebyschew], Pafnutij [Pafnuty] L'vovich [Lwowitsch] (1821-1894)
  461. Cherenkov [Cerenkov, Tscherenkow], Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)
  462. Cherry, Thomas Macfarland (1898-1966)

    Chéseaux: see Loys de Chéseaux, Philippe (1718-1751)

  463. Chiara, Luciano (1910-1969)
  464. Childrey, Joshua (1623-1670)
  465. Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich (1756-1827)
  466. Christiansen, Wilbur Norman (b. 1913)
  467. Christie, William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922)
  468. Christmann, Jacob (1554-1613)
  469. Christy, James W. (b. 1938)
  470. Chrysippus (280 BC - 206 BC)

    Chu-hsi: see Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

  471. Cidenas (4th c. BC)
  472. Ciermans, Jean (1602-1648)

    Ciolkovskij: see Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich (1857-1935)

  473. Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713-1765)
  474. Clark (family)
  475. Clark, Alvan (1804-1887)
  476. Clark, Alvan Graham (1832-1897)
  477. Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
  478. Clarke, William Branwhite (1798-1878)
  479. Clausen, Thomas (1801-1885)
  480. Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel (1822-1888)
  481. Clavius [Klau], Christoph [Christopher] (1538-1612)
  482. Cleanthes (331 BC - 232 BC)
  483. Cleomedes [Kleomedes] (fl. 1st c.)
  484. Clerke, Agnes Mary (1842-1907)
  485. Clerke, Ellen Mary (1840-1906)
  486. Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879)
  487. Coblentz, William Weber (1873-1962)
  488. Cocconi, Giuseppe (b. 1914)
  489. Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir (1897-1967)
  490. Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683)
  491. Collins, John (1625-1683)
  492. Collins, Michael (b. 1930)
  493. Colson, Edmund Albert (1881-1950)
  494. Columbus, Christopher [Cristóbal Colón; Cristoforo Colombo; Christoph Kolumbus] (1451-1506)
  495. Comenius, Johann Amos [orig. Komenský, Jan Amos] (1592-1670)
  496. Commandino, Federico (1509-1575)
  497. Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962)
  498. Comrie, Leslie John (1893-1950)

    Condamine: see La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701-1774)

  499. Condon, Edward Uhler (1902-1974)
  500. Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat (1743-1794)
  501. Coningham, S. Brett (?-1999)
  502. Conon of Samos (ca. 280 BC - ca. 220 BC)
  503. Conrad, Charles P. "Pete" (1930-1999)
  504. Conway, Anne, née Finche (1631-1679)
  505. Cook, James (1728-1779)
  506. Cooke, William Ernest (1863-1947)
  507. Copernicus [Kopernik, Kopernikus], Nicolaus [Mikolaj] (1473-1543)
  508. Cornu, Marie Alfred (1841-1902)
  509. Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718)
  510. Cortes de Albacar, Martin (before 1530 - before 1582)
  511. Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574)
  512. Cosserat, Eugène Maurice Pierre (1866-1931)
  513. Coster, Francis (1532?-1619)
  514. Cotes, Roger (1682-1716)
  515. Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806)
  516. Cournot, Antoine Augustin (1801-1877)
  517. Covington, Arthur Edwin (b. 1913)
  518. Cowling, Thomas George (1906-1990)
  519. Coyne, George V. (b. 1933)
  520. Crabtree, William (1610-1644)
  521. Craig [Craige], John (1662/63-1731)
  522. Cremona, Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe (1830-1903)
  523. Cristannus de Prachaticz (before 1370-1439)
  524. Cronstrand, Simon Anders (1784-1850)
  525. Crookes, William (1832-1919)
  526. Culpeper, Nicholas (1616-1654)
  527. Cumont, Franz [Franz-Valéry-Marie] (1868-1947)
  528. Cunitz [Cunitia], Maria (1610-1664)
  529. Curie, Douglas (20th c.)
  530. Curie, Marie, née Sklodowska (1867-1934)
  531. Curie, Pierre (1859-1906)
  532. Curlewis, Harold Burnham (1874-1968)
  533. Curley, James (1796-1889)
  534. Curtis, Heber Doust (1872-1942)

    Cusanus: see Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

  535. Cutler, Manasseh (1742-1823)
  536. Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832)
  537. Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien (1619-1655)
  538. Cysat, Johann Baptist [Cysatus] (1586-1657)
  539. Czerny, Albin (1821-1900)

    D

  540. Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé (1787-1851)

    d'Alembert: see Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d' (1717-1783)

  541. Dalencé, Joachim (1640-1707)
  542. Dalgarno, Alexander (b. 1928)
  543. Dallmeyer, John Henry (1830-1883)
  544. Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808)
  545. Dalton, John (1766-1844)
  546. Danjon, André-Louis (1890-1967)
  547. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
  548. Danti, Egnatio [Egnazio, Ignazio] (1536-1586)
  549. Darquier de Pellepoix, Antoine (1718-1802)

    d'Arrest: see Arrest, Heinrich Louis d' (1822-1875)

  550. Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
  551. Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912)
  552. Dasypodius [Rauchfuss], Cunradus (1530-1600)
  553. Daublebsky von Sterneck, Robert von (1839-1910)
  554. Davidson, George (1825-1911)

    da Vinci: see Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

  555. Davis, Charles Henry (1807-1877)
  556. Davis, Elizabeth Brown (1863-1917)
  557. Davis, John (20th c.)
  558. Davison, William (1593-1669)
  559. Davy, Humphry (1778-1829)
  560. Dawes, William (1762-1836)
  561. Dawes, William Rutter (1799-1868)
  562. Debeaune [de Beaune], Florimond (1601-1652)
  563. Dechales, Claude Francois Milliet (1621-1678)
  564. Dechend, Hertha von (1915-2001)

    de Chéseaux: see Loys de Chéseaux, Philippe (1718-1751)

  565. Dee, John (1527-1608)
  566. De Filiis, Anastasio (1577-Naples 1608)
  567. de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inez (1651-1717)
  568. Del Rio, Martin Antoininem (1551-1608)
  569. Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1749-1822)
  570. Delaunay, Charles Eugene (1816-1872)
  571. Delbrück, Max (1906-1981)
  572. Delisle, Guillaume (1675-1726)
  573. Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas (1688-1768)
  574. della Valle, Pietro (? - 16--)

    de Mairan: see Mairan, Jean Jacques d'Ortous [Dortous] de (1678-1771)

  575. Democritus of Abdera (ca. 460 BC - ca. 370 BC)
  576. De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
  577. Denis, Jean-Baptiste (ca. 1640-1704)
  578. Denner, Jacob (1659-1746)
  579. Denning, William Frederick (1848-1931)
  580. Dent, Edward John (1790-1853)
  581. Denza, Francesco (1834-1894)
  582. Deparcieux, Antoine (1703-1768)
  583. Derham, William (1657-1735)
  584. Desargues, Gérard (1591-1661)
  585. Descartes, René (1596-1650)
  586. Desing, Anselm (1699-1772)

    de Sitter, Willem: see Sitter, Willem de (1872-1934)

  587. Deslandres, Henri Alexandre (1853-1948)
  588. de Vaucouleurs: see Vaucouleurs, Gérard de (1918-1995)
  589. Dicke, Robert Henry (b. 1916)
  590. Dickinson, Terence (20th c.)
  591. Dicuil (fl. 8th c.)
  592. Diesterweg, Adolph (1790-1866)
  593. Digges, Leonard (ca. 1520 - ca. 1559)
  594. Digges, Thomas (1545/46-1595)
  595. Dionis du Séjour, Achille Pierre (1734-1794)
  596. Dionysodorus (ca. 250 BC - ca. 190 BC)
  597. Diophantus of Alexandria [Diophantos von Alexandrien] (ca. 200 - ca. 284)
  598. Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984)
  599. Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805-1859)
  600. Divini, Eustachio (1610-1685)
  601. Dixon, Jeremiah (1733-1779)
  602. Dodwell, George Frederick (1879-1963)
  603. Doerffel, Georg Samuel (1643-1688)
  604. Doi, Takao (b. 1954)
  605. Dolezal, Erich (1902-1990)
  606. Dollond, John (1706-1761)
  607. Dollond, John (1730-1821)
  608. Donati, Giambattista [Giovanni Battista] (1826-1873)
  609. Dooley, James Creswell (b. 1919)
  610. Doppelmayr, Johan Gabriel (1671-1750)
  611. Doppler, Johann Christian (1803-1853)
  612. Douglas, Charles S. (1923-1998)
  613. Douglass, Andrew Ellicott (1867-1962)
  614. Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm (1803-1879)
  615. Drake, Francis (c.1540-1596)
  616. Drake, Frank Donald (b. 1930)
  617. Draper, Charles Stark (1901-1987)
  618. Draper, Henry (1837-1882)
  619. Draper, John William (1811-1882)
  620. Drebbel, Cornelius (1572-1633)
  621. Dreyer, John Louis Emil (1852-1926)
  622. Drygalski, Erich Dagobert von (1865-1949)
  623. Dudith [Duditus], Andreas (1533-1589)
  624. Dudley, Robert (1573-1649)
  625. Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929)
  626. Duhamel [Du Hamel], Jean-Baptiste (1623/24-1706)
  627. Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie (1861-1916)
  628. Dulong, Pierre Louis (1785-1838)
  629. Dumée, Jeanne (18th century)
  630. Dunash ben Tamim (c.900-c.960)
  631. Dunbar, William (1749-1810)
  632. Dunér, Nils Christofer (1839-1914)
  633. Dunlop, James (1793-1848)
  634. Dunstable, John (?-1453)
  635. Dürer [Duerer], Albrecht (1471-1528)
  636. Durrance, Samuel T. (b. 1943)
  637. du Val, Patrick (1903-1987)
  638. Dyson, Frank Watson (1868-1939)
  639. Dyson, Freeman J. (b. 1923)

    E

  640. Earnshaw, Thomas (1749-1829)
  641. Eaton, Etta Maine (1869-1915)
  642. Eberhard, Gustav (1867-1940)
  643. Eckert, Wallace John (1902-1971)
  644. Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)
  645. Edgeworth, Kenneth Essex (1880-1972)
  646. Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
  647. Einbu [Enebo], Sigurd (1866-1946)
  648. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
  649. Ellery, Robert Lewis John (1827-1908)
  650. Ellison, Frederick Archdall (1864-1936)
  651. Elsasser, Walter M. (1904-1991)
  652. Elwin, Syd J. (ca. 1905-1993)
  653. Empedocles of Akragas (ca. 492 BC - ca. 432 BC)
  654. En Henduanna (ca. 2354 BC)
  655. Encke, Johann Franz (1791-1865)
  656. Englefield, Henry Charles (1752-1822)
  657. Ennor, Arnold Hughes (1912-1977)
  658. Eötvös, Lóránd [Roland] von (1848-1919)
  659. Epicurus of Samos [Epikur] (341-270 BC)
  660. Epping, Joseph (1835-1894)
  661. Epstein, Isadore (1919-1996)
  662. Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 276 BC - ca. 196 BC)
  663. Erfle, Heinrich Valentin (1884-1923)
  664. Erman, Georg Adolph [Adolf] (1806-1877)
  665. Esclangon, Ernest Benjamin (1876-1954)
  666. Euclid of Alexandria (fl. ca. 295 BC)
  667. Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 400 BC - ca. 347 BC)
  668. Eugenius I (?-647)
  669. Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)
  670. Evans, John V. (20th c.)
  671. Ezra, Abraham ben Meir ibn [Abraham Ben Esra [Ibn Esra]] (ca.1092-1167)

    F

  672. Fabri [Fabry], Honoré (1607-1688)
  673. Fabricius, David (1564-1617)
  674. Fabricius, Johannes (1587-1616)
  675. Fabry, Marie Paul Auguste Charles (1867-1945)
  676. Fairbank, William Martin (1917-1989)

    Fairfax Somerville, Mary: see Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig (1780-1872)

  677. Falck, Anders (1740-1796)
  678. Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
  679. Fatou, Pierre Joseph Louis (1878-1929)
  680. Faulkner, Don (20th c.)
  681. Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albans [Hervá Auguste Etienne] (1814-1902)
  682. Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665)
  683. Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954)
  684. Fernel, Jean François (c.1497-1558)
  685. Ferrari, Ludovico [Lodovico] (1522-1565)
  686. Ferrari d'Occhieppo, Konradin (b. 1907)
  687. Ferrel, William (1817-1891)
  688. Feuillée, Louis (1660-1732)
  689. Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918-1988)
  690. Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo (1676-1764)
  691. Filchner, Wilhelm (1877-1957)
  692. Fincke, Edward Michael (b. 1967)

    Fincke, Thomas: see Fink, Thomas (1561-1656)

  693. Finé, Oronce (1494-1555)
  694. Fink [Fincke], Thomas (1561-1656)
  695. Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
  696. Fitzgerald [FitzGerald], George Francis (1851-1901)
  697. Fitzpatrick, John (1807-1881)
  698. Fixlmüller [Fixlmillner], Placidus (1721-1791)
  699. Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis [Armand Hippolyte Louis] (1819-1896)
  700. Flammarion, Nicolas Camille (1842-1925)
  701. Flamsteed, John (1646-1719)
  702. Fleckenstein, Joachim Otto (1914-1980)
  703. Fleming, John Adam (1877-1956)
  704. Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens (1857-1911)
  705. Flemløse, Peder Jakobsen (1554-1598)
  706. Fludd, Robert (1574-1637)
  707. Foerster, Wilhelm Julius (1832-1921)
  708. Foggini, Giulio (16--? - 17--?)
  709. Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouyer de [Bernhard le Bovier de] (1657-1757)
  710. Forbes, George (1849-1936)
  711. Forest, Lee de (1873-1961)
  712. Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria (1789-1860)
  713. Foscarini, Paolo Antonio (1565-1616)
  714. Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-1868)
  715. Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830)
  716. Fowler, Alfred (1868-1940)
  717. Fowler, William Alfred (1911-1995)
  718. Fracastoro, Girolamo (ca. 1478-1553)
  719. Fraenkel, Adolf Abraham Halevi (1891-1965)
  720. Franck, James (1882-1964)
  721. Francoeur, Louis Benjamin (1773-1849)
  722. Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
  723. Franz, Joseph (1704-1776)
  724. Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787-1826)
  725. Fredga, Kerstin (b. 1935)
  726. Fredholm, Erik Ivar (1866-1927)
  727. Freeman, Thomas (?-1821)
  728. Frenet, Jean Frédéric (1816-1900)
  729. Fresnel, Augustin (1788-1827)
  730. Freundlich, Erwin Finlay (1885-1964)
  731. Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de (1779-1842)
  732. Friedman, Herbert (b. 1916)
  733. Friedmann [Fridman], Aleksandr [Alexander] Aleksandrovich (1888-1925)
  734. Friedrich II. [Frederick II] (1194-250)
  735. Friedrich III. (1415-1493)
  736. Frisi, Paolo (1728-1784)
  737. Frost, Edwin Brant (1866-1935)
  738. Frost, Robert Lee (1874-1963)
  739. Furber, Thomas Frederick (1855-1924)
  740. Fuss, Nicolaus (1755-1826)

    G

    Gabir ben Aflah: see Jabir ibn Aflah

  741. Gabor, Dennis (1900-1979)
  742. Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934-1968)
  743. Gale, Walter Frederick (1865-1945)
  744. Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
  745. Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812-1910)
  746. Galois, Evariste (1811-1832)
  747. Gamow, George (1904-1968)
  748. Ganesa (1507-after 1564)

    Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne: see Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia (1900-1979)

  749. Gascoigne, Sidney Charles (b. 1915)
  750. Gascoigne, William (1621-1644)
  751. Gassendi [Gassend; Gassendy], Pierre (1592-1655)
  752. Gathmann, Louis (1843-1917)
  753. Gaubil, Antoine (1689-1759)
  754. Gauß [Gauss], Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
  755. Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850)

    Geber Hispalensis: see Jabir ibn Aflah

  756. Geiger, Hans (1882-1945)
  757. Gellibrand, Henry (1597-1636)
  758. Geminus (ca. 130 BC - ca. 70 BC)
  759. Gemma Frisius, Reiner [Regner; Regnier] (1508-1555)
  760. Gentner, Wolfgang (1906-1980)

    Georg von Peuerbach: see Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461)

  761. George II, King of England (1683-1760)
  762. George of Trebizond [Georg von Trapezunt] (c.1395-c.1486)
  763. Gerard of Cremona [Germ. Gerhard von Cremona] (ca.1114-1187)
  764. Gerbert of Aurillac (ca. 946-1003)
  765. Gerbillon, Jean-François (1654-1707)
  766. Germain, Sophie (1776-1831)

    Gersonides: see Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344)

  767. Getaldic [Ghetaldi], Marin [Marino] (1568-1626)

    Ghazali: see al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid (1058-1128)

  768. Giacconi, Riccardo (b. 1931)
  769. Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839-1903)
  770. Gilbert [Gilberd], William (1544-1603)
  771. Gill, David (1843-1914)
  772. Gilruth, Robert Rowe (b. 1913)
  773. Giovanelli, Ronald Gordon (1915-1984)
  774. Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee (1848-1928)
  775. Glazenap [Glasenapp], Sergej Pavlovich [von] (1848-1937)
  776. Gleißberg, Wolfgang (1903-1986)
  777. Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. (b. 1921)
  778. Goddard, Robert H. (1882-1945)
  779. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
  780. Gold, Thomas (b. 1920)
  781. Goldberg, Leo (1918-1987)
  782. Goldmark, Peter Carl (1906-1977)
  783. Goldstein, Eugen (1850-1930)
  784. Gompertz, Benjamin (1779-1865)
  785. Goodricke, John (1764-1786)
  786. Gothus, Laurentius Paulinus (1565-1646)
  787. Gottlieb, Kurt (1910-1995)
  788. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896)
  789. Graff, Kasimir Romuald (1878-1950)
  790. Graham, George (ca. 1674-1751)
  791. Grandami, Jaques (1588-1672)
  792. Grandi, Luigi Guido (1671-1742)
  793. Grant, Kerr (1878-1967)
  794. Grassi, Orazio (1583-1654)
  795. Gray, Stephen (1666-1736)
  796. Green, George (1793-1841)
  797. Greenstein, Jesse Leonard (b. 1909)
  798. Gregory XIII, Pope [Germ. Papst Gregor XIII.; orig. Ugo Buoncompagni] (1502-1585)
  799. Gregory of Tours [orig. Georgius Florentius; Germ. Gregor von Tours] (538/9-593/4)
  800. Gregory [Gregorie], David (1659-1708)
  801. Gregory [Gregorie], James (1638-1675)
  802. Grieve, Richard A.F. (20th c.)
  803. Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (1618-1663)
  804. Grimble, Arthur Francis (1888-1956)
  805. Grindel, Carlo (ca.1780-1854)
  806. Grisogono, Federico [Federicus De Chrysogonius] (1472/73-1538)
  807. Grosseteste, Robert (ca. 1168-1253)
  808. Grueber, Johannes (1623-1680)
  809. Gruithuisen, Franz von Paula (1774-1852)
  810. Grunsfeld, John M. (b. 1958)
  811. Guarini, Guarino (1642-1683)
  812. Guericke [Gericke], Otto von (1602-1686)
  813. Guglielmini, Giovanni Battista (1763-1817)
  814. Guidoni, Umberto (b. 1954)

  815. Guillaume d'Auvergne: see William of Auvergne (ca. 1180-1249)

  816. Guldin, Paul (1577-1643)
  817. Gunter, Edmund (1581-1626)
  818. Guthnick, Paul (1879-1947)
  819. Gyldén, Johan August Hugo (1841-1896)

    H

  820. Habash al-Hasib (?-c.870)
  821. Hadley, John (1682-1744)
  822. Hagen, Johann Georg (1847-1930)

    Haiyan: see Ibn Haiyan, Jabir (?-803)

  823. Hakluyt, Richard (1552(?)-1616)
  824. Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)
  825. Hall, Asaph (1829-1907)
  826. Haller von Hallerstein, Augustin (1703-1774)
  827. Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)
  828. Halma, Nicholas (1755-1828)
  829. Hamilton, Laurentine (1826-1882)
  830. Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865)
  831. Hansen, Peter Andreas (1795-1874)
  832. Hansteen, Christopher (1784-1873)
  833. Hargrave, Lawrence (1850-1915)
  834. Harper, William Edmund (1878-1940)
  835. Harper, William Rainey (1856-1906)
  836. Harrington, Roy (b. 1934)
  837. Harriot, Thomas (ca.1560-1621)
  838. Harris, Bertrand John (1925-1975)
  839. Harrison, John (1693-1776)
  840. Hartmann, Georg (1489-1564)
  841. Hartmann, Johannes (1568-1631)
  842. Hartmann, Johannes Franz (1865-1936)
  843. Hartner, Willy (1905-1981)
  844. Hassel, Olaf (1898-1972)
  845. Hasselberg, Klas Bernhard (1848-1922)
  846. Hausdorff, Felix (1869-1942)
  847. Hawking, Stephen W. (b. 1942)
  848. Hawley, Steven A. (b. 1951)
  849. Hayford, John Fillmore (1868-1925)
  850. Hazard, Cyril (20th c.)
  851. Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925)
  852. Hecataeus of Miletus [Hecateo; Hecateus; Hekataios] (ca. 550 BC - ca. 480 BC)
  853. Heckmann, Otto Hermann Leopold (1901-1983)
  854. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)

    Heinrich der Seefahrer: see Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)

  855. Heinrich von Langenstein [Heinrich de Langenstein; Engl. Henry of Langenstein] (ca.1325-1397)
  856. Heis, Eduard (1806-1877)
  857. Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976)

    Hekataios: see Hecataeus of Miletus (ca. 550 BC - ca. 480 BC)

  858. Hell [Höll], Maximilian [Miksa] (1720-1792)
  859. Hellant, Anders (1717-1789)
  860. Helmert, Friedrich Robert (1841-1917)
  861. Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821-1894)
  862. Helmont, Johannes Baptista Van (1579-1644)
  863. Henderson, Thomas (1798-1844)
  864. Hengler, Lorenz [Engl. also Lawrence] (1806-1858)

    Henry of Langenstein: see Heinrich von Langenstein (ca.1325-1397)

  865. Henry the Navigator [Heinrich der Seefahrer] (1394-1460)
  866. Henry, Joseph (1797-1878)
  867. Hepperger, Josef von, zu Tirschtenberg und Hoffensthal (1855-1928)
  868. Heraclides of Heraclea Pontus (ca. 388 BC - 315 BC)
  869. Heracleitus of Ephesus (ca. 540 BC - ca. 475 BC)
  870. Herbig, George Howard (b. 1920)
  871. Herigone, Pierre (? - ca. 1643)
  872. Hermann von Kärnten [Hermann der Slawe; Engl. Hermann of Carinthia; Hermann the Slav] (fl. first half 12th c.)
  873. Hermann von [of] Reichenau [Hermann the Lame; Hermann Contractus; Herimanus Augiensis] (1013-1054)
  874. Hermann, Jakob (1678-1733)
  875. Hermite, Charles (1822-1901)
  876. Heron of Alexandria (ca.65-ca.125)
  877. Herr, Josef Philipp (1819-1884)
  878. Herrick, Edward Claudius (1811-1862)
  879. Herrick, Samuel (1911-1974)
  880. Herschel, Caroline [Karoline] Lucretia (1750-1848)
  881. Herschel, John Frederick William (1792-1871)
  882. Herschel, William [Friedrich Wilhelm; Frederick William] (1738-1822)
  883. Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967)
  884. Herz, Norbert (1858-1927)
  885. Herzberg, Gerhard (1904-1999)
  886. Herzenberg, Caroline Stuart Littlejohn (b. 1932)
  887. Hesiod (ca. 700 BC)
  888. Hess, Harry Hammond (1906-1969)
  889. Hess, Victor Franz (1883-1964)
  890. Hevelius [Hevel; Hewel; Hewelcke], Johannes [Jan] (1611-1687)
  891. Hewish, Anthony (b. 1924)
  892. Higgs, Arthur John (b. 1904)
  893. Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
  894. Hildebrand, Alan R. (20th c.)
  895. Hildegard of [von] Bingen (1098-1179)
  896. Hill, George William (1838-1914)
  897. Hillebrand, Karl (1861-1939)
  898. Hipparchus [Hipparchos; Hipparch] of Rhodes [of Nicaea; von Nikäa] (ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC)
  899. Hippasus of Metapontum [Hippasos von Metapont] (fl. c. 500 BC)
  900. Hjorter, Olof Petrus (1696-1750)

    Hodierna: see Odierna, Gioanbatista [Giovan/Giovanni Battista] (1597-1660)

  901. Hoffman, Jeffrey A. (b. 1944)
  902. Hoffman, Samuel Kurtz (b. 1902)
  903. Högbom, Jan (20th c.)
  904. Hogg, Arthur Robert (1903-1966)
  905. Hogg, Frank Scott (1904-1951)
  906. Hogg [Sawyer Hogg, Hogg-Priestley, Sawyer-Hogg-Priestley], Helen Battles (1905-1993)
  907. Hohmann, Walter (1880-1945)
  908. Holden, Edward Singleton (1846-1914)
  909. Holetschek, Johann (1846-1923)
  910. Holmberg, Erik [Eric] Bertil (b. 1908)
  911. Holmboe, Bernt Michael (1795-1850)
  912. Homer (ca. 750 BC)
  913. Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
  914. Hopfner, Friedrich (1881-1949)
  915. Horn D'Arturo, Guido (1880-1967)
  916. Horner, Johann Kaspar (1774-1834)
  917. Horrebow, Peder Nielsen (1679-1764)
  918. Horrocks, Jeremiah (1619-1641)
  919. Hortensius, Martinus [Ortensius or Van den Hove, Maarten] (1605-1639)
  920. Hoüel, Guillaume Jules (1823-1886)
  921. Hough, George Washington (1836-1909)
  922. Houston, Walter Scott (1912-1993)
  923. Houzeau de Lehaie, Jean-Charles-Hippolyte-Joseph (1820-1888)
  924. Hoyle, Fred (b. 1915)
  925. Huber [Huber-Rohner], Johann Jakob (1733-1798)
  926. Huber, Martin (b. 1936)
  927. Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953)
  928. Hudde, Johann [Jan] van Waveren (1628-1704)
  929. Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Murray (1848-1915)
  930. Huggins, William (1824-1910)
  931. Hulse, Russell A. (b. 1950)
  932. Hulst, Hendrik van de (b. 1918)
  933. Humason, Milton La Salle (1891-1972)
  934. Humbert, Pierre Marie (1891-1953)
  935. Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
  936. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835)
  937. Hutton, Charles (1737-1823)
  938. Hutton, James (1726-1797)
  939. Huxley, Leonard George Golden (1902-1988)
  940. Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
  941. Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415)
  942. Hypsicles of Alexandria [Hypsikles von Alexandria] (c. 190 BC - c. 120 BC)

    I

  943. Ibn Haiyan, Jabir (?-803)

    Ibn Qurra: see Thabit Ibn Qurra (836-901)

    Ibn Qurra: see Ibrahim, ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (908-946)

  944. Ibn Rushd [Averroes; Abul Walid Mahommed Ibn Achmed, Ibn Mahommed Ibn Roschd] (1128-1198)
  945. Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (980-1037)
  946. Ibrahim, ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (908-946)
  947. Ingalls, Albert (1888-1958)
  948. Inghirami, Giovanni (1779-1851)
  949. Inman, James (1776-1859)
  950. Isidore of Seville [Germ. Isidor von Sevilla] (ca.560-636)
  951. Israel, Werner (b. 1931)
  952. Ivory, James (1765-1842)

    J

  953. Jabir ibn Aflah [Gabir ben Aflah; Geber Hispalensis], al-Ishbili Abu Muhammad (c.1100-c.1160)

    Jabir Ibn Haiyan (?-803): see Ibn Haiyan

  954. Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob (1804-1851)
  955. Jaeger, John Conrad (1907-1979)
  956. Jansky, Karl Guthe (1905-1950)
  957. Janssen, Pierre Jules César (1824-1907)
  958. Jaschek, Walter (1912-1980)
  959. Jastrow, Robert (b. 1925)
  960. Jean de Counnout [Jean de Connaught; Jean de Saxonia] (fl. 1331-1355)
  961. Jeans, James Hopwood (1877-1946)
  962. Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891-1989)
  963. Jelinek, Carl (1822-1876)
  964. Jernigan, Tamara E. (b. 1959)
  965. Joannes Danko [Joannes de Danekowe; Jean de Saxonia; Jean de Saxe] (fl. 1297-1323)
  966. Johannes de Sacrobosco [de Sacro Bosco; John of Holywood] (ca.1195-1256)
  967. Johannes von Gmunden [Johannes von Gmünd; Engl. John of Gmunden] (ca.1380/84-1442)
  968. John XXI, Pope [orig. Peter Juliani] (1215(?)-1277)
  969. John Damascene (ca.676-754/787)
  970. John, Fritz (1910-1994)
  971. Johns, G.F. (18--? - 19--?)
  972. Johnson, Harold Lester (1921-1980)
  973. Johnson, Raynor Carey (1901-1987)
  974. Jones, Damien (20th c.)

    Jones, Harold Spencer: see Spencer Jones, Harold (1890-1960)

  975. Jones, Thomas D. (b. 1955)
  976. Jones, William (1675-1749)
  977. Jordanus de Nemore [Jordanus Nemorarius; Nemoratius; Le Forestier] [= Jordanus Saxo; Jordanus of Saxony ?] (? - 1237 (?))
  978. Joscelyne, Henry Maurice (1860- ?)
  979. Joy, Alfred Harrison (1882-1973)
  980. Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)
  981. Jungius, Joachim (1587-1657)
  982. Jüttner, Josef (1775-1848)

    K

  983. Kaiser, Frederik [Frederick] (1808-1872)
  984. Kaiser, Wilhelm (1895-1983)
  985. Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
  986. Kapahi, Vijay K. (1944-1999)
  987. Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851-1922)
  988. Kármán, Theodore [Todor] von (1881-1963)
  989. Kästner [Kaestner], Abraham Gotthelf (1719-1800)

    Kastner, Caspar: see Castner, Caspar (1655-1709)

  990. Kater, Henry (1777-1835)
  991. Kay, Joseph Henry (1815?-1875)
  992. Keckermann, Bartholomew (1571/73-1609(?))
  993. Keeler, James Edward (1857-1900)
  994. Keill, John (1671-1721)
  995. Keldysh, Mstislav Vsevolodovich (1911-1978)
  996. Kellner, Carl (1826-1855)

    Kelvin, Lord: see Thomson, William (1824-1907)

  997. Kemble, Lucian (1922-1999)
  998. Kennedy, Alexander Lorimer (1889-?)
  999. Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
  1000. Kern, Johann (1895-1975)
  1001. Kerr, Frank John (b. 1918)
  1002. Khayyam [al-Khayyam], Omar [Abu ol-Fath ebn-Ebrahim 'Omar ol-Khayyami of Nishapur] (ca.1044-ca.1123)
  1003. Kiddinu (340 BC - ?)
  1004. Kiepenheuer, Karl-Otto [Karl Otto] (1910-1975)
  1005. Kindlimann, Conrad (1849-1929)
  1006. King, Phillip Parker (1791-1856)
  1007. Kingman, John Frank Charles (b. 1939)
  1008. Kino, Eusebio Francisco (c.1644-1711)
  1009. Kirch, Christfried (1694-1740)
  1010. Kirch, Gottfried (1639-1710)
  1011. Kirch, Maria Margarethe, née Winckelmann (1670-1720)
  1012. Kircher, Athanasius (1601-1680)
  1013. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824-1887)
  1014. Kirkwood, Daniel (1814-1895)
  1015. Kivelson, Margaret Galland (b. 1928)
  1016. Klein, Felix Christian (1849-1925)
  1017. Klinkerfues, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (1827-1884)
  1018. Knibbs, George Handley (1858-1929)
  1019. Knorre, Ernst Christoph Friedrich (1759-1810)
  1020. Knorre, Karl Friedrich (1801-1883)
  1021. Knorre, Viktor (1840-1919)
  1022. Koffler, Andreas (1603-1651)
  1023. Kögler, Ignaz [Ignatius] (1680-1746)
  1024. Kollar, Rüdiger (b. 1925)
  1025. Koller, Marian Wolfgang (1792-1866)
  1026. Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich (1903-1987)

    Kolumbus: see Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506)

  1027. König, Albert (1871-1946)
  1028. König, Franz Niklaus (1765-1832)
  1029. Konkoly Thege, Miklos (1842-1916)
  1030. Konrad von [of] Megenberg (ca.1309-1374)
  1031. Korff, Serge Alexander (1906-1989)
  1032. Korolyov [Koroljow], Sergej [Sergey, Sergei] Pavlovich [Pawlowitsch] (1907-1966)
  1033. Kovalevskaya [Kowalewskaja], Sofia [Sophia] Vasilyevna [Wassiljewna] (1850-1891)
  1034. Kraus, John (b. 1910)
  1035. Kreil, Karl (1798-1862)
  1036. Kruskal, Martin David (b. 1925)
  1037. Krylov, Aleksej Nikolaevich (1863-1945)
  1038. Kuffner, Moriz von (1854-1939)
  1039. Kuhn, Thomas Samuel (1922-1996)
  1040. Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905-1973)
  1041. Kumagusu, Minakata (1867-1941)
  1042. Kutter, Anton (1903-1985)

    L

  1043. La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701-1774)
  1044. La Hire, Gabriel-Philippe de [Philippe II] (1677-1719)
  1045. La Hire, Philippe de [Philippe I] (1640-1718)
  1046. Labeyrie, Antoine (20th c.)
  1047. Lacaille, Nicholas [Nicolas] Louis de (1713-1762)

    Lacondamine: see La Condamine, Charles Marie de (1701-1774)

  1048. Lacroix, Sylvestre Francois (1765-1843)
  1049. Laflèche, Louis-François Richer (1818-1898)
  1050. Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813)
  1051. Laisant, Charles Ange (1841-1920)
  1052. Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme de (1732-1807)
  1053. Lamb, Horace (1849-1934)
  1054. Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728-1777)
  1055. Lamé, Gabriel (1795-1870)
  1056. Lamont, Johann von (1805-1879)
  1057. Lanczos, Cornelius (1893-1974)
  1058. Landau, Lev Davidovich (1908-1968)
  1059. Landen, John (1719-1790)
  1060. Lane, David J. (20th c.)
  1061. Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834-1906)
  1062. Langren [Langrenus], Michael Florent van [Michael Florentius] (ca.1600-1675)
  1063. Lansberge, Philip van [Lansbergen, Philips] (1561-1632)
  1064. Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827)
  1065. Lardner, Dionysius (1793-1859)
  1066. Larmor, Joseph (1857-1942)
  1067. Lassell, William (1799-1880)
  1068. Lasser, David (b. 1902)
  1069. Laßwitz [Lasswitz], Kurd [Pseud.: Velatus] (1848-1910)

    Lauchen, Georg Joachim von: see Rheticus

  1070. Laue, Max von (1879-1960)
  1071. Lauritsen, Charles Christian (1892-1968)
  1072. Lauritsen, Thomas (1915-1973)
  1073. Lavanha, Joao Baptista (1550-1624)
  1074. Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794)
  1075. Le Bel, Joseph Achille (1847-1930)
  1076. Le Paige, Constantin Marie (1852-1929)

    Le Verrier: see Leverrier

  1077. Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868-1921)
  1078. Lebesgue, Henri Léon (1875-1941)
  1079. Lee, John (? - ?)
  1080. Lee, Tsung-Dao (b. 1926)
  1081. LeFevre [Le Fèvre; LeFebvre], Jean (1652-1706)
  1082. Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1752-1833)
  1083. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716)
  1084. Lemaître, Georges Edouard, Abbé (1894-1966)
  1085. Lemay, Damien (20th c.)
  1086. Lemonnier, Pierre Charles (1715-1799)
  1087. Lenehan, Henry Alfred (1843-1908)
  1088. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
  1089. Leone, Salvatore (1917-1981)
  1090. Leonov, Alexey Arkhipovich (b. 1934)
  1091. Leopoldo de' Medici (1617-1675)
  1092. Lépaute, Nicole-Reine Etable, née de la Briére (1723-1788)
  1093. Leucippus of Miletus [Leukippos; Leukipp] (ca. 480 BC - ca. 420 BC)
  1094. Leuschner, Armin Otto (1868-1953)
  1095. Leverrier [Le Verrier], Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877)
  1096. Levi ben Gerson [Gersonides] (1288-1344)
  1097. Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873-1941)
  1098. Levy, David H. (b. 1948)
  1099. Lewis, David (b. 1919)
  1100. Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806-1863)
  1101. Lexell, Anders Johan (1740-1784)
  1102. Ley, Willy (1906-1969)
  1103. Libby, Willard (1908-1980)
  1104. Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1744-1799)
  1105. Lick, James (1796-1876)
  1106. Liesganig, Joseph (1719-1799)
  1107. Lifshitz, Evgenij Mikhajlovich (1915-1985)
  1108. Lightfoot, John B. (1602-1675)
  1109. Lilius, Aloisius (1510-1576)
  1110. Lin, Chia Chiao (b. 1916)
  1111. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974)
  1112. Lindblad, Bertil (1895-1965)
  1113. Lindelöf, Lorenz Leonard (1827-1908)
  1114. Lindemann, Adolph (1884-1928)
  1115. Lindenau, Bernhard August von (1779-1854)
  1116. Lindhagen, Daniel Georg (1819-1906)
  1117. Lindstedt, Anders (1854-1939)
  1118. Lineberger, William Carl (b. 1939)
  1119. Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882)
  1120. Lipperhey [Lippershey], Hans [Jan] (1570?-1619)
  1121. Lipschitz, Rudolf Otto Sigismund (1832-903)
  1122. Littrow, Joseph Johann (1781-1840)
  1123. Littrow, Karl Ludwig von (1811-1877)
  1124. Liu Xin (1st c. BC - 1st c. AD)
  1125. Ljungberg, Jöns Mattias (1748-1812)
  1126. Lobachevskij [Lobachevsk[i]y; Lobatschewski], Nikolaj [Nikolai; Nikolay] Ivanovich [Iwanowitsch] (1792-1856)
  1127. Locke, John Lambourne (b. 1921)
  1128. Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836-1920)
  1129. Lodén, Kerstin and Lars Olof (20th c.)
  1130. Logan, James (1674-1751)
  1131. Lomberg, Jon (b. 1948)
  1132. Lomonosov [Lomonossow], Mikhail Vasilyevich [Michail Wassiljewitsch] (1711-1765)
  1133. Longberg, Kristen Sorensen [Longomontanus; Severin, Christian] (1562-1647)
  1134. Loomis, Elias (1811-1889)
  1135. Lord, Francis (b. 1916)
  1136. Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)
  1137. Love, Augustus Edward Hough (1863-1940)
  1138. Lovelace, Augusta Ada King, Countess of (1815-1852)
  1139. Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard (b. 1913)
  1140. Lovell, James Arthur (b. 1928)
  1141. Lovering, John Francis (b. 1930)
  1142. Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (1856-1943)
  1143. Lowell, Percival (1855-1916)
  1144. Loys de Chéseaux, Philippe (1718-1751)
  1145. Lu, Edward Tsang (b. 1963)
  1146. Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865)
  1147. Lucas, Francois Edouard Anatole (1842-1891)
  1148. Lucian (ca.117-ca.180)
  1149. Lucretius (1st c. BC)
  1150. Lüroth [Lueroth], Jacob (1844-1910)
  1151. Lundmark, Knut Emil (1889-1958)
  1152. Luyten, Willem Jacob (1899-1994)
  1153. Luzin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1883-1950)
  1154. Lyapunov [Ljapunow], Aleksandr [Alexandr] Mikhajlovich [Michailowitsch] (1857-1918)
  1155. Lyell, Charles (1797-1875)
  1156. Lyman, Theodore (1874-1954)
  1157. Lynden-Bell, Donald (b. 1935)
  1158. Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand (1897-1952)

    M

    Mac Laurin, Colin: see Maclaurin, Colin

  1159. MacDonnell, William John (1842-1910)
  1160. Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)
  1161. Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)
  1162. Mädler, Johann Heinrich (1794-1874)
  1163. Madsen, Hans Frandsen (1843-1937)
  1164. Maestlin, Michael (1550-1631)
  1165. Maffei, Francesco Scipione (1675-1755)
  1166. Magarey, Thomas (1825-1902)
  1167. Magellan, Ferdinand [Port. Magalhaes, Fernão] (c.1480-1521)
  1168. Maggini, Mentore (1890-1941)
  1169. Magini, Giovanni Antonio (1555-1617)
  1170. Magnenus [Magnen, Magnien], Johann Chrysostom (ca.1590-ca.1679)
  1171. Magnitsky, Leonty Filippovich (1669-1739)
  1172. Mairan, Jean Jacques d'Ortous [Dortous] de (1678-1771)
  1173. Malapert, Charles (1581-1630)
  1174. Malin, David (b. 1952)
  1175. Malina, Frank J. (1912-1981)
  1176. Mallet, Fredrik (1728-1797)
  1177. Malmquist, Karl Gunnar (1893-1982)
  1178. Malus, Etienne Louis (1775-1812)
  1179. Malvasia, Cornelio (1603-1664)
  1180. Mamun [al-Mamun], Abdalla[h] al (786-833)
  1181. Manfredi, Eustachio (1674-1739)
  1182. Manilius, Marcus (fl. A.D. 10)
  1183. Mansur, Abu Nasr (970-1036)
  1184. Maraldi, Giacomo Filippo (1665-1729)
  1185. Marci of Kronland, Joh. M. [Marcus Marci] (1595-1667)
  1186. Marinoni, Johann Jakob [von] (1676-1755)
  1187. Mariotte, Edme (ca.1620-1684)
  1188. Marius, Simon (1573-1624)
  1189. Markgraf [Marcgraf], Georg (1610-1644)
  1190. Markowitz, William (1907-1998)
  1191. Marrison, Warren (1896-1980)
  1192. Martyn, David Forbes (1906-1970)
  1193. Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811)
  1194. Mason, Charles (1730-1787)
  1195. Mason, Charles Max (1877-1961)
  1196. Massey, Harrie Stewart Wilson (1908 - 1983)
  1197. Mathieu, Claude Louis (1783-1875)
  1198. Mathieu, Emile Léonard (1835-1890)
  1199. Mauderli, Sigmund (1876-1962)
  1200. Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)
  1201. Maurolico [Marul, Marol], Francesco (1494-1575)
  1202. Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873)
  1203. Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)
  1204. Mayer, Christian (1719-1783)
  1205. Mayer, Tobias (1723-1762)
  1206. Mayr [Marius], Simon (1573-1624)
  1207. Mazzolini, Sylvester [Mozolini; Prierias] (1460-1523)
  1208. McAulay, Alexander (1863-1931)
  1209. McCrea, William Hunter (1904-1999)
  1210. Medici (family)
  1211. Medina, Pedro de (ca.1493-ca.1567)
  1212. Megele, Giuseppe (1740-1816)
  1213. Meissel, Daniel Friedrich Ernst (1826-1895)
  1214. Meissner, Karl Wilhelm (1891-1959)
  1215. Melanchthon, Philipp (1497-1560)
  1216. Melanderhjelm, Daniel (1726-1810)
  1217. Melissus of Samos (ca. 440 BC)
  1218. Mellor, David Paver (1903-1980)
  1219. Mengoli, Pietro (1625-1686)
  1220. Menelaus of Alexandria [Menelaos von Alexandria] (ca. 70 - ca. 130)
  1221. Menzel, Donald (1901-1976)
  1222. Mercator, Gerardus [Gerhard Kremer] (1512-1594)
  1223. Mercator, Nicolaus [Niklaus Kauffman] (ca.1619-1687)
  1224. Merfield, Zeus Amphion (1899-1965)
  1225. Merrill, Paul Willard (1887-1961)
  1226. Merrill, Winifred Edgerton (1862-1951)
  1227. Mersenne, Marin (1588-1648)
  1228. Merz, Georg (1793-1867)
  1229. Meshchersky, Ivan Vsevolodovich (1859-1935)
  1230. Messier, Charles (1730-1817)
  1231. Metius, Adriaan (1571-1635)
  1232. Meton of Athens (ca. 440 BC - ?)
  1233. Meyerstein, Moritz (1808-1882)
  1234. Michell, John (1724-1793)
  1235. Michelson, Albert (1852-1931)
  1236. Miller, David (19th c.)
  1237. Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953)
  1238. Millman, Peter Mackenzie (1906-1990)
  1239. Mills, Bernard Yarnton (b. 1920)
  1240. Milne, Edward Arthur (1896-1950)
  1241. Mineo, Corradino (1875-1960)
  1242. Mineur, Henri (1899-1954)
  1243. Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909)
  1244. Minkowski, Rudolph Leo Bernhard (1895-1976)
  1245. Minnaert, Marcel Gilles Jozef (1893-1970)
  1246. Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)
  1247. Möbius, August Ferdinand (1790-1868)

    Mohammad Bin Musa al-Khawarizmi (?-840): see al-Khawarizmi
    Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (864-930): see al-Razi

  1248. Möller, Didrik Magnus Axel (1830-1895)
  1249. Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
  1250. Montanari, Geminiano (1633-1687)
  1251. Monte, Guidobaldo del (1545-1607)
  1252. Montmor, Henri Louis Habert de (ca.1600-1679)
  1253. Montucla, Jean Etienne (1725-1799)
  1254. Moore, Francis (1657-ca.1715)
  1255. Moore, Jonas (1627-1679)
  1256. Moore, Patrick Alfred Caldwell (b. 1923)
  1257. Morgan, William Wilson (1906-1994)
  1258. Morin, Jean-Baptiste (1583-1656)
  1259. Morley, Edward (1838-1923)
  1260. Morrison, Philip (b. 1915)
  1261. Moulton, Forest (1872-1952)
  1262. Mouton, Gabriel (1618-1694)
  1263. Mueller, George E. (b. 1918)
  1264. Mukai Genshô (1609-1677)

    Müller, Johann or Johannes: see Regiomontanus (1436-1476)

  1265. Münster, Sebastian (1488-1552)
  1266. Mutis, José Celestino (1732-1808)
  1267. Mydorge, Claude (1585-1647)

    N

  1268. Naljeskovic, Nikola (?-1587)
  1269. Napier [Neper and numerous other forms], John (1550-1617)
  1270. Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu (b. 1938)
  1271. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274)
  1272. Nasmyth, James (1808-1890)
  1273. Neander, Ernst Albin (1878-1928)
  1274. Neander, Michael (1529-1581)
  1275. Needham, Joseph (1900-1995)
  1276. Neile, William (1637-1670)
  1277. Nekrasov, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1883-1957)
  1278. Nelson, Jerry Earl (b. 1944)

    Nemore [Nemorarius]: see Jordanus de Nemore (? - 1237 (?))

  1279. Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864-1941)
  1280. Neugebauer, Otto (1899-1990)
  1281. Neumann, Franz von (1844-1905)
  1282. Neumann, Franz Ernst (1798-1895)
  1283. Neumann, John von (1903-1957)
  1284. Neumayer, Georg Balthazar (1826-1909)
  1285. Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)
  1286. Newton, Isaac (1643-1727)
  1287. Nicholas of Cusa [Nicolaus Cryffts, Nicolaus de Cusa, Nicolaus von Cues, Cusanus] (1401-1464)

    Nicolaus de Cusa: see Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)

  1288. Nicholson, Seth Barnes (1891-1963)
  1289. Nicollier, Claude (b. 1944)
  1290. Nikoloff, Ivan (b. 1921)
  1291. Nilson, Peter (1937-1998)
  1292. Nobel, Alfred (1833-1896)
  1293. Noether, Amalie Emmy (1882-1935)
  1294. Noether, Max (1844-1921)

    Nonius, Petrus: see Nuñez Salaciense, Pedro (1502-1578)

  1295. Nordmarck, Zakaria (1751-1828)
  1296. Nordström, Gunnar (1881-1923)
  1297. Norman, Robert (16th c.)
  1298. Norwood, Richard (1590-1676)
  1299. Nossiter, Harry (18--? - 19--?)
  1300. Nostradamus (1503-1566)
  1301. Notker Labeo (c.950-1022)
  1302. Novikov, Sergej Petrovich (b. 1938)
  1303. Nuñez Salaciense, Pedro [Nunes, Pedro; Nonius, Petrus] (1502-1578)

    O

  1304. Oberth, Hermann (1894-1989)
  1305. Odierna [Hodierna], Gioanbatista [Giovan or Giovanni Battista] (1597-1660)
  1306. Oenopides of Chios (c. 490 BC - c. 420 BC)
  1307. Öhman, Karl Yngve (1903-1988)
  1308. Oja, Tarmo (20th c.)
  1309. Oken, Lorenz (1779-1851)
  1310. Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm (1758-1840)
  1311. Oliver, Bernard M. [Barney] (1916?-1995)

    Omar Khayyam: see Khayyam, Omar (ca.1044-ca.1123)

  1312. Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900-1992)
  1313. Öpik (Opik), Ernst Julius (1893-1985)
  1314. Oppenheim, Samuel (1857-1928)
  1315. Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967)
  1316. Oppolzer, Theodor von (1841-1886)
  1317. Oresme, Nicole (1320-1382)
  1318. Oriani, Barnaba [Barnabé] (1752-1832)
  1319. Osiander, Andreas (1498-1552)
  1320. Osipovskij [Osipovsky], Timofej [Timofei] Fedorovich (1765-1832)
  1321. Osterbrock, Donald Edward (b. 1924)
  1322. Oughtred [Owtred], William (1575-1660)
  1323. Ozanam, Jacques (1640-1717/18)

    P

  1324. Paczynski, Bohdan (b. 1940)
  1325. Page, Thornton L. (1913-1996)
  1326. Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933)
  1327. Palisa, Johann (1848-1925)
  1328. Palitzsch, Johann Georg (1723-1788)
  1329. Palmieri, Luigi (1807-1896)
  1330. Paracelsus [Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (ca. 1493 - 1541)
  1331. Parent, Antoine (1666-1716)
  1332. Parise, Ronald A. (b. 1951)
  1333. Parker, Eugene Newman (b. 1927)
  1334. Parker, Louis (b. 1906)
  1335. Parkinson, Wilfred Charles (1884-1964)
  1336. Parmenides of Elia (ca. 515 BC - after 450 BC)
  1337. Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse [Lord Rosse] (1800-1867)
  1338. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
  1339. Pascal, Étienne (1588-1651)
  1340. Patterson, Clair Cameron (1922-1995)
  1341. Pawsey, Joseph Lade (1908-1962)
  1342. Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (1900-1979)
  1343. Peacock, George (1791-1858)
  1344. Pearce, Joseph Algernon (1893-1988)
  1345. Pease, Francis G. (1881-1938)
  1346. Pedersen, Olaf (1920-1997)
  1347. Peebles, Phillip James E. (b. 1935)
  1348. Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
  1349. Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de (1580-1637)
  1350. Pelerin de Prusse (14th c.)
  1351. Pell [Pellius], John (1611-1685)
  1352. Penzias, Arno Allan (b. 1933)
  1353. Perelli, Tommaso (1704-1783)
  1354. Perez de Vargas, Bernardo (before 1560 - after 1569)
  1355. Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)
  1356. Perrine, Charles (1867-1951)
  1357. Perry, Stephen Joseph (1833-1889)
  1358. Petit, Pierre (1598-1677)
  1359. Petzval, Józeph Miksa (1807-1891)
  1360. Peurbach [Peuerbach, Purbach], Georg von (1423-1461)
  1361. Philolaus of Tarentum or Croton (ca. 480 BC - ?)
  1362. Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)
  1363. Picard, Jean (1620-1682)
  1364. Piccolomini, Alessandro (1508-1578)
  1365. Pickering, Edward Charles (1846-1919)
  1366. Pickering, William Hayward (b. 1910)
  1367. Pickering, William Henry (1858-1938)
  1368. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)
  1369. Pierry, Mme. du (18th century)
  1370. Pierson, Ambroise (17--? - ?)
  1371. Pighius [Pigghe], Albert (c.1490-1542)
  1372. Pigot, Edward Francis (1858-1929)
  1373. Pinchbeck, Christopher (ca.1710-1738)
  1374. Pingré, Alexandre Guy (1711-1796)
  1375. Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro (1646-1684)
  1376. Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo (1781-1864)
  1377. Planck, Max (1858-1947)
  1378. Planman, Anders (1724-1803)
  1379. Plaskett, John Stanley (1865-1941)
  1380. Platina, Bartolomeo [orig. Sacchi] (1421-1481)
  1381. Plato (428 BC - 347 BC)
  1382. Playfair, John (1748-1819)
  1383. Plössl, Georg Simon (1794-1868)
  1384. Plume, Thomas (1630-1704)
  1385. Pocock, Robert John (1889-1918)
  1386. Poggiali, Giuseppe (19th c.)
  1387. Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854-1912)
  1388. Poisson, Siméon Denis (1781-1840)
  1389. Poleni, Giovanni (1683-1761)
  1390. Pollock, James Arthur (1865-1922)
  1391. Pólya, George (1887-1985)
  1392. Pons, Jean-Louis (1761-1831)
  1393. Poretskij [Poretsky], Platon Sergeevich (1846-1907)
  1394. Porro, Ignazio (1801-1875)
  1395. Porta, Giambattista della (1535-1615)
  1396. Porter, Russell (1871-1949)
  1397. Poseidonius of Apamea (ca. 135 BC - ca. 50 BC)
  1398. Potapenko, Gennady (1895-1979)
  1399. Potocnik, Herman (1892-1929)
  1400. Prigogine, Ilya (b. 1917)
  1401. Primakoff, Henry (1914-1983)
  1402. Priscillian (?-385?)
  1403. Pritchett, Henry Smith (1857-1939)
  1404. Proclus [Proklos] Diadochus (410[412?]-485)
  1405. Prokhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich (b. 1916)
  1406. Prony, Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de (1755-1839)
  1407. Prosperin, Erik (1739-1803)
  1408. Ptolemy [Ptolomaeus; Ptolemaios, Klaudios] (ca.87-ca.165)
  1409. Puiseux, Victor Alexandre (1820-1883)

    Purbach: see Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461)

  1410. Purcell, Edward Mills (b. 1912)
  1411. Pythagoras of Samos (580 BC - 500 BC)

    Q

  1412. Qadi Zada, al'Rumi (1364-1436)
  1413. Quensel, Conrad (1676-1732)
  1414. Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe (1796-1874)

    Qurra: see Thabit Ibn Qurra (836-901)

    Qurra: see Ibrahim, ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (908-946)

    R

  1415. Radcliffe, John (1650-1714)
  1416. Ragona, Domenico (1820-1892)
  1417. Rajewsky, Boris (1893-1974)
  1418. Raman, Chandrasekhra Venkata (1888-1970)
  1419. Ramsay, William (1852-1916)
  1420. Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800)
  1421. Ramsey, Norman F. (b. 1915)
  1422. Ramus, Peter (1515-1572)
  1423. Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820-1872)
  1424. Raphson, Joseph (1648-1715)
  1425. Rasch, Johann (ca.1540-1615)

    Rayleigh, Lord: see Strutt, John William (1842-1919)
    Razi: see al-Razi, Mohammad Ibn Zakariya (864-930)

  1426. Reael, Lorenzo (1583-1637)
  1427. Reber, Grote (b. 1911)
  1428. Recorde, Robert (ca. 1510 - 1558)
  1429. Rees, Martin John (b. 1942)
  1430. Reeves, Hubert (b. 1932)
  1431. Regener, Erich (1881-1955)
  1432. Regiomontanus [Müller, Johann or Johannes] (1436-1476)
  1433. Régis, Jean-Baptiste (1663/4-1738)
  1434. Regnér, Lars (1746 - 1810)
  1435. Reiche, Maria (1903-1998)
  1436. Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von (1772-1826)
  1437. Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von (1788-1869)
  1438. Reinhold, Erasmus (1511-1553)
  1439. Reinhold, Erasmus (1538-1592)
  1440. Reines, Frederick (1918-1998)
  1441. Respighi, Lorenzo (1824-1889)

    Rhaeticus: see Rheticus

  1442. Rheita, Anton Maria Schyrlaeus (1604-1660)
  1443. Rheticus [Rhaeticus; Lauchen, Georg Joachim von] (1514-1574)
  1444. Ricci, Matteo (1552-1610)
  1445. Riccioli, Giambattista [Giovanni Battista] (1598-1671)
  1446. Ricco', Annibale (1844-1919)
  1447. Richard of Wallingford (1291/92-1336(?))
  1448. Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881-1953)
  1449. Richer, Jean (1630-1696)
  1450. Ride, Sally Kristen (b. 1951)
  1451. Riedler, Willibald (b. 1932)
  1452. Rimmer, William Bolton (1882-1943)
  1453. Ritchey, Georg Willis (1864-1945)
  1454. Rittenhouse, Benjamin (1740-1825)
  1455. Rittenhouse, David (1732-1796)

    Rivinus: see Bachmann, Augustus Quirinus (1652-1723)

  1456. Roberts, Gilbert, Sir (1899-1978)
  1457. Roberval, Gilles Personne de (1602-1675)
  1458. Robie, Thomas (1689-1729)
  1459. Robins, Benjamin (1707-1751)
  1460. Robinson, Thomas Romney (1792-1882)
  1461. Rocard, Yves-André (1903-1992)
  1462. Rockwell, Willard Frederick, Jr. (1914-1992)
  1463. Rodgers, John (1812-1882)
  1464. Rømer [Römer, Roemer], Ole [Olaf] Christensen (1644-1710)
  1465. Ronchi, Vasco (1897-1988)
  1466. Rondelli, Geminiano (1652-1735)
  1467. Röntgen [Roentgen], Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923)
  1468. Rooke, Lawrence (1622-1662)
  1469. Roomen, Andriaan van (1561-1615)
  1470. Rordorf, Johann Rudolf (1788-1854)
  1471. Roseby, Thomas (1844-1918)
  1472. Rosén, Per Gustaf (1838-1914)
  1473. Rosenberg, Hans (1879-1940)
  1474. Ross, Mrs A.D. (?-?)
  1475. Ross, Alexander David (1883-1966)

    Rosse, Lord: see Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867)

  1476. Rosseland, Svein (1894-1985)
  1477. Rossi, Bruno Benedetto (1905-1993)
  1478. Rothmann, Christoph (1550-1599/1608)
  1479. Rowland, Henry Augustus (1848-1901)
  1480. Rubin, Vera Cooper (b. 1928)
  1481. Rudolf II (1552-1612)
  1482. Rue, Warren de la (1815-1889)
  1483. Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980)
  1484. Rümker [Rumker], Christian Carl Ludwig (1788-1862)

    Rushd: see Ibn Rushd [Averroes] (1128-1198)

  1485. Russell, Henry Chamberlain (1836-1907)
  1486. Russell, Henry Norris (1877-1957)
  1487. Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)
  1488. Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris (1816-1892)
  1489. Ruysch, John (c.1460-1533)
  1490. Rylands, Thomas Glazebrook (1818-1900)
  1491. Ryle, Martin (1918-1984)

    S

  1492. Sabine, Edward, Sir (1788-1883 )
  1493. Sabliere (18th century)

    Sacrobosco: see Johannes de Sacrobosco (ca.1195-1256)

  1494. Sagan, Carl Edward (1934-1996)
  1495. Saha, Meghnad (1893-1956)
  1496. Saint Vincent, Gregorius [Gregory of Saint Vincent] (1584-1667)
  1497. Salomonovich, Alexander (b. 1916)
  1498. Salpeter, Edwin Ernest (b. 1924)
  1499. Sandage, Allan Rex (b. 1926)
  1500. Sands, Benjamin F. (1812-1883)
  1501. Sang, Edward (1805-1890)
  1502. Santini, Giovanni Sante Gaspero (1787-1877)
  1503. Sarabhai, Vikram (1919-1971)
  1504. Sargent, Wallace (b. 1935)
  1505. Sarpi, Paolo (1552-1623)
  1506. Savary, Felix (1797-1841)
  1507. Savile, Henry (1549-1622)

    Sawyer Hogg, Helen: see Hogg, Helen B.

  1508. Scaliger, Joseph (1540-1609)
  1509. Scarpellini, Caterina (1808-?)
  1510. Schall von Bell, Johann Adam (1592-1666)
  1511. Scheiner, Christoph (1575-1650)
  1512. Scheiner, Julius (1858-1913)
  1513. Scheuer, Peter (b. 1930)
  1514. Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835-1910)
  1515. Schickard [Schickhardt], Wilhelm (1592-1635)
  1516. Schindel, Iohannes [Andreae, Iohannes] (fl. 14th-15th c.)
  1517. Schjellerup, Hans Karl Frederik Kristian (1827-1887)
  1518. Schläfli, Ludwig (1814-1895)
  1519. Schlesinger, Frank (1871-1943)
  1520. Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (1879-1935)
  1521. Schmidt, Maarten (b. 1929)
  1522. Schoener, Johannes (1477-1547)
  1523. Schopf, James William (b. 1941)
  1524. Schramm, David N. (1945-1997)
  1525. Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)
  1526. Schultán, Nathanael Gerhard af (1750-1825)
  1527. Schuster, Arthur, Sir (1851-1934)
  1528. Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789-1875)
  1529. Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916)
  1530. Schwarzschild, Martin (1912-1997)
  1531. Scott, William (1825-1917)
  1532. Seares, Frederick Hanley (1873-1964)
  1533. Secchi, Angelo (1818-1878)
  1534. Segner, Johann Andreas (1704-1777)
  1535. Seidel, Philipp Ludwig von (1821-1896)
  1536. Selander, Nils Haqvin (1804-1870)

    Seldowitsch: see Zel'dovich, Yakov Borisovich (1914-1987)

  1537. Seleucus of Seleucia (ca. 190 BC - ?)
  1538. Serpieri, Alessandro (1823-1885)
  1539. Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819-1885)
  1540. Sestini, Benedict (1816-1890)

    Severin, Christian: see Longberg, Kristen Sorensen

  1541. 'sGravesande, Willem Jacob (1688-1742)
  1542. Shakerley, Jeremy (1626-ca.1655)
  1543. Shakeshaft, John (20th c.)
  1544. Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972)
  1545. Shelton, Ian (b. 1958)
  1546. Shen Kua (1031-1095)
  1547. Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr. (b. 1923)
  1548. Shklovskii, Iosif Samuilovich (1916-1985)
  1549. Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928-1997)
  1550. Shuter, William L. H. (1936-1995)
  1551. Siegel, Carl Ludwig (1896-1981)
  1552. Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882-1969)
  1553. Sigüenza y Gongora, Carlos de (1645-1700)
  1554. Silesius Lublenensis, Georgius Iobius (fl. 1610)
  1555. Sima Qian [Ssu-ma Ch'ien] (c.145 BC - c.90 BC)
  1556. Simson, Robert (1687-1768)
  1557. Sisson, Jeremiah (18th c.)
  1558. Sitter, Willem de (1872-1934)
  1559. Sitterly, Charlotte Emma Moore (1898-1990)
  1560. Slee, O. Bruce (20th c.)
  1561. Slipher, Vesto Melvin ["V.M."] (1875-1969)
  1562. Sluse [Sluze], René-Francois de (1622-1685)
  1563. Slutskij [Slutsky; Sluzki; Sluckij], Evgenij [Evgeny; Jewgeni] Evgenievich [Jewgenjewitsch] (1880-1948)
  1564. Smalley, George Robarts (1822-1870)
  1565. Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
  1566. Smith, Graham (b. 1923)
  1567. Smith, Harlan James (1924-1991)
  1568. Smith, Paul (19??-1995)
  1569. Smoot, George Fitzgerald, III (b. 1945)
  1570. Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819-1900)
  1571. Snel [Snell or Snellius or Snel van Royen], Willebrord (1580-1626)
  1572. Sokolov, Yurij [Yurii; Juri] Dmitrievich [Dmitrijewitsch] (1896-1971)
  1573. Soemmerring [Sömmerring], Samuel Thomas von (1755-1830)
  1574. Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig (1780-1872)
  1575. Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm (1868-1951)
  1576. Sommerville, Duncan MacLaren Young (1879-1934)
  1577. Sonduk (around 630 BC)
  1578. Sonnefeld, August (1886-1974)
  1579. Sophronius (fl. 445)
  1580. Sosigenes of Alexandria (ca. 50 or 90 BC - ?)
  1581. Southworth, Albert Sands (1811-1894)
  1582. Spencer Jones, Harold (1890-1960)
  1583. Spigl, Hyman Solomon (1911-1962)
  1584. Spinoza [de Spinoza], Benedictus [Baruch] (1632-1677)
  1585. Spitzer, Georg (1925-1989)
  1586. Spitzer, Lyman, Jr. (1914-1997)
  1587. Spole, Anders (1630-1699)
  1588. Sporus of Nicaea (ca. 240 - ca. 300)
  1589. Spurr, Josiah Edward (1870-1950)
  1590. Sripati (1019-1066)
  1591. Stampioen, Jan Jansz. de Jonge (1610- after 1689)
  1592. Stanley, G. J. (20th c.)
  1593. Stansel, Valentin (1621-1705)
  1594. Staudt, Karl Georg Christian von (1798-1867)
  1595. Stebbins, Joel (1878-1966)
  1596. Stein, Johan W.J.A. (1871-1951)
  1597. Steiner, Rudolf (1861-1925)
  1598. Steinmeyer, Ferdinand (1720-1786)
  1599. Stephan, Jean Marie Edouard (1837-1923)
  1600. Stevin, Simon (1548-1620)
  1601. Stewart, Matthew (1717-1785)
  1602. Stewart, Robert Meldrum (1878-1954)
  1603. Stibbs, Douglas Walter Noble (b. 1919)
  1604. Stieltjes, Thomas Joannes [Jan] (1856-1894)
  1605. Stifel, Michael (1480-1567)
  1606. Stodola, Edwin King (1914-1992)
  1607. Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)
  1608. Storer, Arthur (17th c.)
  1609. Störmer, Fredrik Carl Mülertz (1874-1957)
  1610. Streete, Thomas (1622-1689)
  1611. Strömer, Mårten (1707-1770)
  1612. Strömgren, Bengt Georg Daniel (1908-1987)
  1613. Strömgren, Svante Elis (1870-1947)
  1614. Strutt, John William [Lord Rayleigh] (1842-1919)
  1615. Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793-1864)
  1616. Struve, Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig (1858-1920 )
  1617. Struve, Karl Hermann (1854-1920)
  1618. Struve, Otto (1897-1963)
  1619. Struve, Otto Wilhelm (1819-1905)
  1620. Subbotin, Mikhail Fedorovich (1893-1966)
  1621. Suess, Hans Eduard (b. 1909)
  1622. Sundman, Karl Fritiof (1873-1949)
  1623. Sunyaev, Rashid Alievich (b. 1943)
  1624. Sutherland, William (1859-1911)
  1625. Svanberg, Gustaf (1802-1882)
  1626. Svanberg, Jöns (1771-1851)
  1627. Swasey, Ambrose (1846-1937)
  1628. Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772)
  1629. Sylvester, James Joseph (1814-1897)
  1630. Szalay, Sandor (b. 1909)
  1631. Szerdahely, Georg (1740-1808)
  1632. Szilard, Leo (1898-1964)

    T

    Tabari: see Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari (838-870)

  1633. Tacquet, Andreas [Andr&eacut;] (1612-1660)
  1634. Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800-1877)
  1635. Tamm, Nils A. O. (1876-1957)
  1636. Tanaka, Haruo (b. 1922)
  1637. Tannery, Paul (1843-1904)
  1638. Tarde, Jean (1561/62-1636)
  1639. Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)
  1640. Tayler, Roger (1929-1997)
  1641. Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram, Sir (1886-1975)
  1642. Taylor, Janet (19th century)
  1643. Taylor, Joseph H. (b. 1941)
  1644. Tebbutt, John (1834-1916)
  1645. Teller, Edward (b. 1908)
  1646. Tempel, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht (1821-1889)
  1647. Tenskwatawa (?-1837)
  1648. Tereshkova, Valentina (b. 1937)
  1649. Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)
  1650. Thabit Ibn Qurra (836-901)
  1651. Thales of Miletus [Thales von Milet] (624 BC - 546 BC)
  1652. Theodosius of Bithynia (ca. 160 BC - ca. 100 BC)
  1653. Theon of Alexandria (ca. 335 - ca. 395)
  1654. Theon of Smyrna (ca. 100 - ca. 160)
  1655. Thiele, Thorvald Nicolai (1838-1910)
  1656. Thierry of Freburg [Thierry of Saxony] (fl. 1293-1310)
  1657. Thom, Alexander (1894-1945)
  1658. Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274)
  1659. Thomas, Oswald (1882-1963)
  1660. Thompson, John (1720-1783)
  1661. Thompson, Roland Dale (1895-1950)
  1662. Thomson, James Park (1854-1941)
  1663. Thomson, William (1824-1907)
  1664. Thorndike, Lynn (1882-1965)
  1665. Thurneisser zum Thurn, Leonhard (1531-1596)
  1666. Tiarks, Henry Frederick (1900-1995)
  1667. Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir ibn (1236-1312)
  1668. Tieffenthaler, Josef (1710-1785)
  1669. Timocharis (ca. 200 BC)
  1670. Tinseau, D'Amondans Charles de (1748-1822)
  1671. Tisserand, Francois Félix (1845-1896)
  1672. Titius, Johann Daniel (1729-1796)
  1673. Toaldo, Giuseppe (1719-1797)
  1674. Todd, Charles (1826-1910)
  1675. Todd, Mabel Loomis (1856-1932)
  1676. Tombaugh, Clyde William (1906-1997)
  1677. Tompion, Thomas (ca.1639-1713)
  1678. Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)
  1679. Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo (1397-1482)
  1680. Towneley, Richard (1629-1707)
  1681. Townes, Charles Hard (b. 1915)
  1682. Triesnecker, Franz von Paula [Francis a Paula] (1745-1817)
  1683. Troughton, Edward (1753-1836)
  1684. Trumpler, Robert Julius (1886-1956)

    Tscherenkow: see Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1990)

  1685. Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walter von (1651-1708)
  1686. Tsiolkovsky [Ciolkovskij, Ziolkowski], Konstantin Eduardovich [Eduardowitsch] (1857-1935)
  1687. Tsu Ch'ung Chi (430-501)
  1688. Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821-1873)
  1689. Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930)
  1690. Tutte, William (b. 1917)

    Tycho Brahe: see Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)

    U

  1691. Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin (1909-1984)
  1692. Ulloa, Antonio de (1716-1795)
  1693. Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)
  1694. Unruh, William George (b. 1945)
  1695. Unsöld, Albrecht (1905-1995)
  1696. Urban VIII, Pope [Barberini, Maffeo] (1568-1644)
  1697. Urdaneta, Andrés (1498-1568)
  1698. Urey, Harold Clayton (1893-1981)
  1699. Ussher, James (1581-1656)

    V

  1700. Vaiana, Giuseppe Salvatore (1935-1991)
  1701. Vali, Hojatollah (20th c.)
  1702. Valier, Max (1895-1930)
  1703. Van Allen, James (b. 1914)
  1704. van de Hulst, Hendrik Christoffel (1918-2000)
  1705. van de Kamp, Peter (1901-1995)
  1706. van den Bergh, Sidney (b. 1929)
  1707. Van Heeck, Johannes (1574-16--?)
  1708. Van Vleck, Edward Burr (1863-1943)

    Vassenius: see Wassenius, Birger (1687-1771)

  1709. Vaucouleurs, Gérard Henri de (1918-1995)
  1710. Velikovsky, Immanuel (1895-1979)
  1711. Verbiest, Ferdinand (1623-1688)
  1712. Verdon, George Frederic (1834-1896)
  1713. Vergilius of Salzburg [Virgilius; Irish Fergal, Ferghil, or Feirghil] (?-789)
  1714. Verhulst, Pierre Francois (1804-1849)
  1715. Verne, Jules (1828-1905)
  1716. Vernier, Pierre (c.1580-1637)
  1717. Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512)
  1718. Vico, Francesco de (1805-1848)
  1719. Viète [Vieta], Francois (1540-1603)
  1720. Villalpando, Juan Battista (1552-1608)
  1721. Vincentius Bellovacensis [Engl. Vincent of Beauvais; Germ. Vincenz von Beauvais] (c.1190-c.1264)
  1722. Vitruvius (ca. 70 BC - ca. 25 BC)
  1723. Viviani, Vincenzo (1622-1703)
  1724. Vogel, Hermann Carl (1841-1907)
  1725. Vries, Hugo de (1848-1935)

    W

  1726. Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der (1903-1996)
  1727. Waineo, Thomas (1935 - 1996)
  1728. Walch, A.T. (? - ?)
  1729. Waldmeier, Max (b. 1912)
  1730. Walker, Arthur Geoffrey (1909-2001)
  1731. Wallace, William (1768-1843)
  1732. Wallenquist, Åke Anders Edvard (1904-1994)

    Wallingford: see Richard of Wallingford (1291/92-1336)

  1733. Wallis, John (1616-1703)
  1734. Walmesley, Charles (1722-1797)
  1735. Walton, Ernest (b. 1903)
  1736. Wangerin, Albert (1844-1933)
  1737. Warburg, Aby M. (1866-1929)
  1738. Ward, Seth (1617-1689)
  1739. Warner, Worcester Reed (1846-1929)
  1740. Washburn, Cadwallader Colden (1818-1882)
  1741. Wassenius [Vassenius], Birger (1687-1771)
  1742. Watson, James Craig (1838-1880)
  1743. Watson-Watt, Robert (1892-1973)
  1744. Weber, Joseph (1919-2000)
  1745. Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804-1891)
  1746. Wegener, Alfred Lothar (1880-1930)
  1747. Wegg-Prosser, Francis Richard (1824-1911)
  1748. Wehlau, William H. (1926-1995)
  1749. Weierstraß [Weierstrass], Karl Wilhelm Theodor (1815-1897)
  1750. Weinberg, Steven (b. 1933)
  1751. Weinstein, Alexander (1897-1979)
  1752. Weiß [Weiss], Edmund (1837-1917)
  1753. Welser, Marc (1558-1614)
  1754. Wendelin [Vendelinus], Gottfried (1580-1667)
  1755. Werner, Johann (1468-1522)
  1756. Westerlund, Bengt E. (b. 1921)
  1757. Westfall, Richard S. (1924-1996)
  1758. Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo (1885-1955)
  1759. Wharton, George (1617-1681)
  1760. Whipple, Fred Lawrence (b. 1906)
  1761. Whiston, William (1667-1752)
  1762. White, Edward John (1831-1913)
  1763. White, Henry Seely (1861-1943)
  1764. Whitehorne, Mary Lou (20th c.)
  1765. Whitford, Albert Edward (b. 1905)
  1766. Whiting, Sarah F. (1846-1927)
  1767. Whitney, Mary Watson (1847-1921)
  1768. Whittaker, Edmund Taylor (1873-1956)
  1769. Widmannstätten, Alois von Beckh- [Alois Beck, Edler von Widmannstätten] (1753/54-1849)
  1770. Wien, Wilhelm (1864-1928)
  1771. Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)
  1772. Wilczek, Frank Anthony (b. 1951)
  1773. Wilczynski, Ernest Julius (1876-1932)
  1774. Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592)
  1775. Wilhelm von Hirsau [Wilhelm der Selige; Engl. William of Hirsau; Blessed William] (?-1091)
  1776. Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
  1777. Willcox, Kenneth W. (1943-1999)
  1778. William IV, King of England (1765-1837)
  1779. William of Auvergne [Guillaume d'Auvergne] (ca. 1180-1249)
  1780. William of Conches (c.1100-?)

    William of Hirsau: see Wilhelm von Hirsau (?-1091)

  1781. William of Moerbeke (c.1215-1286)
  1782. Williams, Robley Cook (b. 1908)
  1783. Wills, William John (1834-1861)
  1784. Wilson, Alexander (1714-1786)
  1785. Wilson, Benjamin
  1786. Wilson, Olin Chaddock (1909-1994)
  1787. Wilson, Robert Woodrow (b. 1936)
  1788. Wilson, Stephanie D. (b. 1966)

    Winckelmann, Maria Margarethe: see Kirch, Maria Margarethe, née Winckelmann (1670-1720)

  1789. Windischmann, Karl Joseph Hieronymus (1775-1839)
  1790. Wing, Vincent (1619-1668)
  1791. Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor (1835-1897)
  1792. Winthrop, John (1606-1676)
  1793. Winthrop, John (1714-1779)
  1794. Wintner, Aurel Friedrich (1903-1958)
  1795. Witt, John H. de, Jr. (20th c.)
  1796. Wittich, Paul (ca.1546-1586)
  1797. Wolf, Johann Rudolf (1816-1893)
  1798. Wolf, Max[imilian] Franz Joseph Cornelius (1863-1932)
  1799. Wolfer, Alfred (1854-1931)
  1800. Wollaston, William (1766-1828)
  1801. Woodhouse, Robert (1773-1827)
  1802. Woodward, Robert Simpson (1849-1924)
  1803. Woolley, Richard van der Reit (b. 1906)
  1804. Wren, Christopher, Sir (1632-1723)
  1805. Wright, Edward (1561-1615)
  1806. Wright, Horatio George Anthony (1827-1901)
  1807. Wright, Thomas (1711-1786)
  1808. Wronski, Josef Hoëné de (1778-1853)

    X

  1809. Xenocrates of Chalcedon (396 BC - 314 BC)
  1810. Xenophanes of Colophon (ca. 570 BC - ca. 480 BC)
  1811. Ximenes, Didacus (?-1560)

    Y

  1812. Yeates, C.S.S. (1872-1961)
  1813. Yerkes, Charles Tyson (1837-1905)
  1814. Young, Charles Augustus (1834-1908)
  1815. Young, Frederick Mortimer (1860-1927)
  1816. Young, John Watts (b. 1930)
  1817. Young, Reynold Kenneth (1886-1977)
  1818. Young, Thomas (1773-1829)
  1819. Yukawa, Hideki (1907-1981)
  1820. Yunus, Abu'l-Hasan ibn (950-1009)

    Z

  1821. Zach, Franz Xaver von (1754-1832)
  1822. Zagar, Francesco (1900-1976)
  1823. Zeeman, Pieter (1865-1943)
  1824. Zeipel, Edvard Hugo von (1873-1959)
  1825. Zeiss, Carl (1816-1888)
  1826. Zel'dovich [Zeldovich, Seldowitsch], Yakov Borisovich (1914-1987)
  1827. Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 BC - ca. 425 BC)
  1828. Zhang Heng [Chang Heng] (78-139)
  1829. Zhu Xi [Chu-hsi] (1130-1200)
  1830. Zinner, Ernst (1886-1970)

    Ziolkowski: see Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich (1857-1935)

  1831. Zöllner, Johann Karl [Carl] Friedrich (1834-1882)
  1832. Zona, Temistocle (1848-1910)
  1833. Zucchi, Niccolo (1586-1670)
  1834. Zwicky, Fritz (1898-1974)

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 19 Oct 2005