History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Persons (P)

• Paczynski, Bohdan (b. 1940)
  • Short biography, references and links (Bruce medal.)
• Page, Thornton L. (1913-1996)
  • Short biography and archival sources
• Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933)
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
• Palisa, Johann (1848-1925)
  • Very short biography and reference (Or see German version.)
• Palitzsch, Johann Georg (1723-1788)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Heimat- und Palitzsch-Museum, Dresden (in German)
• Palmieri, Luigi (1807-1896)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Paracelsus [Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (ca. 1493 - 1541)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (Or see German version.)
  • Bibliography
• Parent, Antoine (1666-1716)
  • Biographical data and references
• Parise, Ronald A. (b. 1951)
  • Biographical data
• Parker, Eugene Newman (b. 1927)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Parker, Louis (b. 1906)
  • Very short biography
• Parkinson, Wilfred Charles (1884-1964)
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Parmenides of Elia (c. 515 BC - after 450 BC)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse [Lord Rosse] (1800-1867)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (in French)
  • Very short biography
  • Lord Rosse and the Birr Castle Telescopes, by Sean McGibbon (13 Jul 1999: contents deleted, refers to the Birr Castle homepage.)
  • Birr Castle Demesne (Homepage)
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• Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Biography
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Works online
  • Links to WWW sources
  • Links to WWW sources
• Pascal, Étienne (1588-1651)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Patterson, Clair Cameron (1922-1995)
  • Short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Pawsey, Joseph Lade (1908-1962)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
  • Biographical data and bibliography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Archival sources at Basser Library
• Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (1900-1979)
• Peacock, George (1791-1858)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Pearce, Joseph Algernon (1893-1988)
  • Short biography
• Pease, Francis Gladheim (1881-1938)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • MWO History: Pease at the 50-foot Interferometer
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• Pedersen, Olaf (1920-1997)
  • Obituary
• Peebles, Phillip James Edward (b. 1935)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Short biography
• Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
• Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de (1580-1637)
  • Biographical data and references
• Pelerin de Prusse (14th c.)
• Pell [Pellius], John (1611-1685)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Penzias, Arno Allan (b. 1933)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
    Including an autobiography.
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Perelli, Tommaso (1704-1783)
  • Short biography
• Perez de Vargas, Bernardo (before 1560 - after 1569)
  • Biographical data and references
• Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)
  Architect, built the Observatoire de Paris.
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and reference (infoplease.com)
• Perrine, Charles (1867-1951)
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
  • Very short biographical data (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Perry, Stephen Joseph (1833-1889)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Petit, Pierre (1598-1677)
  • Biographical data and references
• Petzval, Józeph Miksa (1807-1891)
  • Short biography and reference (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Peurbach [Peuerbach, Purbach], Georg von (1423-1461)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Very short biography (in German)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (Or see German version.)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian)
• Philolaus of Tarentum or Croton (c. 480 BC - ?)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and references (in Italian)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
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• Picard, Jean (1620-1682)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
• Piccolomini, Alessandro (1508-1578)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Pickering, Edward Charles (1846-1919)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
  • Pickering, Edward C.: On the Spectrum of Zeta Ursae Majoris
    American Journal of Science, 3rd Ser., vol. 39, pp. 46-47, 1890
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• Pickering, William Hayward (b. 1910)
  • Very short biography
  • Portraits
• Pickering, William Henry (1858-1938)
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
  • Very short biography
• Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Short biography and references (infoplease.com)
• Pierry, Mme. du (18th century)
  • Short biographical data
• Pierson, Ambroise (17--? - ?)
  • Short biographical data
• Pighius [Pigghe], Albert (c.1490-1542)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Pigot, Edward Francis (1858-1929)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Pinchbeck, Christopher (ca.1710-1738)
  • Very short biography
• Pingré, Alexandre Guy (1711-1796)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro (1646-1684)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography and references
  • Very short biography
  • Find more about Piscopia with Alta Vista
• Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo (1781-1864)
  • Very short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Planck, Max (1858-1947)
  • Biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
• Planman, Anders (1724-1803)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Plaskett, John Stanley (1865-1941)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
• Platina, Bartolomeo [orig. Sacchi] (1421-1481)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Plato (428 BC - 347 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (infoplease.com)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
  • Bibliography and Internet links
  • Works online
  • Plato on Astronomy by Michael Tirabassi
    A student's presentation
• Playfair, John (1748-1819)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Plössl, Georg Simon (1794-1868)
  • Short biography and references
• Plume, Thomas (1630-1704)
  • Very short biography
• Pocock, Robert John (1889-1918)
  • Very short biography and paper
    See section "History of Astronomy".
• Poggiali, Giuseppe (19th c.)
  • Very short biography
• Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854-1912)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and bibliography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
  • Links to WWW sources
• Poisson, Siméon Denis (1781-1840)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Poleni, Giovanni (1683-1761)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Pollock, James Arthur (1865-1922)
  • Very short biography and references
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Pólya, George (1887-1985)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Pons, Jean-Louis (1761-1831)
  • Short biography and references
• Poretskij [Poretsky], Platon Sergeevich (1846-1907)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Porro, Ignazio (1801-1875)
  • Short biography
• Porta, Giambattista della (1535-1615)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Porter, Russell Williams (1871-1949)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Poseidonius of Apamea [Posidonius] (c. 135 BC - c. 50 BC)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography (infoplease.com)
• Potapenko, Gennady (1895-1979)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Potocnik, Herman (1892-1929)
  • Very short biography and reference (Or see German version.)
  • Herman Potocnik and his book Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel)
• Prigogine, Ilya (b. 1917)
  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
    Including an autobiography
  • Short biography and references
  • Interviewed May 1983 by Robert B. Tucker
  • Papers, 1977-1980
    Manuscripts and typescripts
  • Query Results from Astronomy Database
    Some of Prigogine's papers with relation to astronomy.
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• Primakoff, Henry (1914-1983)
  • Very short biography
• Priscillian (?-385?)
  • Short biography (infoplease.com)
• Pritchett, Henry Smith (1857-1939)
  • Very short biography
• Proclus [Proklos] Diadochus (410[412?]-485)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Prokhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich (b. 1916)
  • Biographical data
  • Very short biography
• Prony, Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de (1755-1839)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Prosperin, Erik (1739-1803)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Ptolemy [Ptolomaeus; Ptolemaios, Klaudios; Ptolemeus] (c.87-c.165)
  • Ptolemy's Supper Club
    Includes a short biography, links, Ptolemy in the Sky.
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (infoplease.com)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (in German)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
  • Bibliography and WWW links
  • Ptolemy: Almagest
  • Almagestu[m], Venice, 1515
  • Ptolemy's Star Catalogue (Almagest)
    The catalogue in machine-readable form. From Astronomical Data Center.
  • Ptolemy: Geography
• Puiseux, Victor Alexandre [Victor-Alexandre] (1820-1883)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Purbach: see Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461)
• Purcell, Edward Mills (b. 1912)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Pythagoras of Samos (580 BC - 500 BC)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (infoplease.com)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (written for children)
  • Very short biography
  • Links to WWW sources

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 12 Nov 2003