History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Persons (S)

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• Sabine, Edward, Sir (1788-1883 )
  • Very short biography
• Sabliere (18th century)
  • Very short biographical data
• Sacrobosco: see Johannes de Sacrobosco (c.1195-1256)
• Sagan, Carl Edward (1934-1996)
• Saha, Meghnad (1893-1956)
  • Biography (24 Aug 1999: disappeared)
  • Short biographical data and bibliography
  • Very short biography
  • Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India
  • Saha Memorial Lectures, since 1957
  • Announcement of Dr. Meghnad Saha Award Scheme for 1996 & 1997
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• Saint Vincent, Gregorius [Gregory of Saint Vincent] (1584-1667)
  • Biographical data and references
• Salomonovich, Alexander (b. 1916)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Salpeter, Edwin Ernest (b. 1924)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Sandage, Allan Rex (b. 1926)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Portraits
• Sands, Benjamin F. (1812-1883)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Sang, Edward (1805-1890)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Santini, Giovanni Sante Gaspero (1787-1877)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Sarabhai, Vikram (1919-1971)
  • Short biography (24 Aug 1999: disappeared)
• Sargent, Wallace Leslie William (b. 1935)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Sarpi, Paolo (1552-1623)
  • Biography and relation to Galileo
• Savary, Felix (1797-1841)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Savile, Henry, Sir (1549-1622)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
• Sawyer Hogg, Helen: see Hogg, Helen B.
• Scaliger, Joseph (1540-1609)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Scarpellini, Caterina (1808-?)
  • Short biographical data
• Schall von Bell, Johann Adam (1592-1666)
  • Very short biography
  • Eight-part cosmological map
• Scheiner, Christoph (1575-1650)
  • Biography and relation to Galileo
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (Or see German version.)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  • Disquistiones mathematicae ..., 1614
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• Scheiner, Julius (1858-1913)
• Scheuer, Peter (b. 1930)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835-1910)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
  • Citadella di Scienze della Natura "G.V. Schiaparelli", Varese, Italy (in Italian)
  • Osservatorio Astronomico Popolare "G.V. Schiaparelli" (in Italian)
  • Società Astronomica "G.V. Schiaparelli" (in Italian)
• Schickard [Schickhardt], Wilhelm (1592-1635)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and reference (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (in German)
  • Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen (in German)
  • Schickhardt-Gymnasium Herrenberg
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• Schindel, Iohannes [Andreae, Iohannes] (fl. 14th-15th c.)
  • Very short biography and research project
• Schjellerup, Hans Karl Frederik Kristian (1827-1887)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Schläfli, Ludwig (1814-1895)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biographical data
• Schlesinger, Frank (1871-1943)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
• Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (1879-1935)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Zeichnungen von Bernhard Schmidt (in German)
  • Schmidt Corrector Plates
    Concerning B.Schmidt's original article
  • Schmidt Museum (at the Hamburg Observatory) (in German)
  • Museum in Mittweida
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• Schmidt, Maarten (b. 1929)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Schoener, Johannes (1477-1547)
  • Biographical data and references
• Schopf, James William (b. 1941)
  • Very short biography
• Schramm, David N. (1945-1997)
  • Obituary
• Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)
  • Short biography and references (Or see German version.)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
    Including a short biography.
  • Britannica Online entries
• Schultán, Nathanael Gerhard af (1750-1825)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Schuster, Arthur, Sir (1851-1934)
  • Very short biography
• Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789-1875)
  • Short biography
  • The Sun - History: Heinrich Schwabe
• Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography (in German)
  • Schwarzschild and the Kuffner Observatory
  • Schwarzschild und die Kuffner-Sternwarte (in German)
  • Karl Schwarzschild Medal
  • Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg - Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium
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• Schwarzschild, Martin (1912-1997)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
  • Obituary
  • Oral history interview (abstract)
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• Scott, William (1825-1917)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Seares, Frederick Hanley (1873-1964)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Secchi, Angelo (1818-1878)
  • Short biography and bibliography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (in Italian)
  • Very short biography
  • Istituto Tecnico Statale per Geometri "Angelo Secchi", Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)
  • Osservatorio Astronomico Pubblico "Padre Angelo Secchi" (in Italian)
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• Segner, Johann Andreas (1704-1777)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Seidel, Philipp Ludwig von (1821-1896)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Seitter, Waltraut C. (1930-2007)
• Selander, Nils Haqvin (1804-1870)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography and an obituary in Swedish.
• Seldowitsch: see Zel'dovich, Yakov Borisovich (1914-1987)
• Seleucus of Seleucia (c. 190 BC - ?)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Serpieri, Alessandro (1823-1885)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819-1885)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Sestini, Benedict (1816-1890)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Severin, Christian: see Longberg, Kristen Sorensen
• 'sGravesande, Willem Jacob (1688-1742)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Shakerley, Jeremy (1626-c.1655)
  • Biographical data and references
• Shakeshaft, John (fl. 20th c.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography (See also here.)
  • Very short biography and links
  • Obituary, by Z. Kopal
    From Nature, Vol. 240, pp 429-430 (1972)
  • Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program
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• Shelton, Ian (b. 1958)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
  • Personal homepage
• Shen Kua (1031-1095)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
• Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr. (b. 1923)
  • Very short biography
• Shklovskii [Schklowski], Iosif Samuilovich (1916-1985)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Shoemaker, Eugene Merle (1928-1997)
  • Obituary, by Brian G. Marsden (Or see here.)
  • Obituary, by Richard Talcott
  • Obituary
  • Obituary (CNN)
  • Obituary
  • Obituaries and other tributes
  • Eugene M. Shoemaker: A Timeless Tribute
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• Shuter, William L. H. (1936-1995)
  • Obituary
• Siegel, Carl Ludwig (1896-1981)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882-1969)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Sigüenza y Gongora, Carlos de (1645-1700)
  • Biographical data and references
• Silesius Lublenensis, Georgius Iobius (fl. 1610)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian)
• Sima Qian [Ssu-ma Ch'ien] (c.145 BC - c.90 BC)
  • Short biography and references
  • Very short biography and links
• Simson, Robert (1687-1768)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Sisson, Jeremiah (18th c.)
  • Very short biography
• Sitter, Willem de (1872-1934)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Sitterly, Charlotte Emma Moore (1898-1990)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Slee, O. Bruce (20th c.)
  • Very short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Memories (abstract)
  • Bibliography (1) (ADS entries)
  • Bibliography (2) (ADS entries)
• Slipher, Vesto Melvin ["V.M."] (1875-1969)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Sluse [Sluze], René-Francois de (1622-1685)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Slutskij [Slutsky; Sluzki; Sluckij], Evgenij [Evgeny; Jewgeni] Evgenievich [Jewgenjewitsch] (1880-1948)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Smalley, George Robarts (1822-1870)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography and links
  • Was Adam Smith an Individualist?, by Andy Denis
    From: History of the Human Sciences Vol 12 No 3 (August 1999) pp 71-86. Also on Adam Smith' work on the history of astronomy.
• Smith, Graham (b. 1923)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Smith, Harlan James (1924-1991)
  • Short biography and obituaries
• Smith, Paul (19??-1995)
  • Obituary
    From AstroTent, Summer 1995
• Smoot, George Fitzgerald, III (b. 1945)
  • Very short biography
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819-1900)
  • Short biography
• Snel [Snell; Snellius; Snel van Royen], Willebrord (1580-1626)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
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• Soemmerring [Sömmerring], Samuel Thomas von (1755-1830)
  • Short biography (in German) (Onmeda)
• Sokolov, Yurij [Yurii; Juri] Dmitrievich [Dmitrijewitsch] (1896-1971)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig (1780-1872)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Biography
  • Short biographical data
• Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm (1868-1951)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Arnold Sommerfeld: Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel (in German)
    Including many letters on astronomical matters. See the subject index "Suche nach Wissenschaft" for keywords like Astrologie, Astronomie, Astrophysik, Gravitationswellen, Keplerbewegung, Mars, kosmische Strahlung, Kosmologie, Universum, Uranus, Urknall etc.
• Sommerville, Duncan MacLaren Young (1879-1934)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Sonduk (around 630 BC)
  • Very short biographical data
• Sonnefeld, August (1886-1974)
  • Short biography (in German)
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• Sophronius (fl. 445)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Sosigenes of Alexandria (c. 50 or 90 BC - ?)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Southworth, Albert Sands (1811-1894)
  • Very short biography
• Spencer Jones, Harold [Jones, Harold Spencer] (1890-1960)
• Spigl, Hyman Solomon (1911-1962)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Spinoza [de Spinoza], Benedictus [Baruch] (1632-1677)
  • A Spinoza Chronology
    Mentions that Spinoza studied also astronomy.
  • Studia Spinoziana
  • Short biography
  • Very short biography
  • Het Spinozahuis
    Museum in Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands. (In case of outdated link search for this museum.)
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• Spitzer, Georg (1925-1989)
  • Very short biographical data
  • Sehr kurze Lebensdaten (in German)
• Spitzer, Lyman, Jr. (1914-1997)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Spole, Anders (1630-1699)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Sporus of Nicaea (c. 240 - c. 300)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Spurr, Josiah Edward (1870-1950)
  • Very short biography
• Sripati (1019-1066)
  • Short biography and reference (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Stampioen, Jan Jansz. de Jonge (1610- after 1689)
  • Biographical data and references
• Stanley, G. J. (20th c.)
  • Very short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Bibliography (ADS entries)
• Stansel, Valentin (1621-1705)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Staudt, Karl Georg Christian von (1798-1867)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Stebbins, Joel (1878-1966)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Stein, Johan W.J.A. (1871-1951)
  • Short biography
• Steiner, Rudolf (1861-1925)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography (in German)
  • Goethean Science
    Including an online version of Steiner's "The Relationship of the Diverse Branches of Natural Science to Astronomy" in English translation.
  • What is science?
    From the point of view of anthroposophy, with short remarks on Steiner and science/astronomy.
  • Rudolf Steiner Bibliothek: Schriften in deutscher Sprache (in German)
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    Many of the documents are to be used with caution.
• Steinmeyer, Ferdinand (1720-1786)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Stephan, Jean Marie Edouard (1837-1923)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Stevin, Simon (1548-1620)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Stewart, Robert Meldrum (1878-1954)
  • Very short biography
• Stewart, Matthew (1717-1785)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Stibbs, Douglas Walter Noble (b. 1919)
  • Biographical data and links
  • Short biography
  • The First Stromlo Up-hill Bicycle Race, by D.W.N. Stibbs
    An Autobiographical Account
• Stieltjes, Thomas Joannes [Jan] (1856-1894)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Stieltjes Analysis Colloquium
• Stifel [Styfel], Michael (1487-1567)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
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• Stodola, Edwin King (1914-1992)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)
  • Biography and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
  • Bibliography
  • Stokes Collection, Cambridge University Library
• Storer, Arthur (17th c.)
  • Short biography
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• Störmer, Fredrik Carl Mülertz (1874-1957)
  • Very short biography
• Streete, Thomas (1622-1689)
  • Biographical data and references
• Strömer, Mårten (1707-1770)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Strömgren, Bengt Georg Daniel (1908-1987)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Strömgren, Svante Elis (1870-1947)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Strutt, John William [Lord Rayleigh] (1842-1919)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793-1864)
  • Very short biography
  • Descendants of Jacob Struve [and F.G.W. Struve]
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• Struve, Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig (1858-1920 )
  • Very short biography
• Struve, Karl Hermann (1854-1920)
  • Very short biography
• Struve, Otto (1897-1963)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
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• Struve, Otto Wilhelm (1819-1905)
  • Very short biography
• Subbotin, Mikhail Fedorovich (1893-1966)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
• Suess, Hans Eduard (b. 1909)
  • Register of Hans Suess Papers, 1875-1989 at University of California Library, Special Collections (Or see ASCII version. See also here.)
    Including a short biography
• Sullivan, Woodruff (b. 1944)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Sundman, Karl Fritiof (1873-1949)
  • Very short biographical data and links
• Sunyaev, Rashid Alievich (b. 1943)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Sutherland, William (1859-1911)
  • Short biographical data and bibliography
  • Very short biography and archival sources
• Svanberg, Gustaf (1802-1882)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Svanberg, Jöns (1771-1851)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Swasey, Ambrose (1846-1937)
  • Very short biography
  • Very short biography
  • History of the Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case Western Reserve University
  • Swasey Observatory, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA
  • Swasey Chapel, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA
  • Ambrose Swasey Library, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, NY, USA
    Is it named after the engineer?
  • Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics (Lawrence M. Krauss)
  • Engineering Foundation
    Established in 1914 in response to Ambrose Swasey's offer to provide funds for research in science and engineering and the advancement of engineering in general. See history of the foundation.
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• Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772)
  • Biography
  • Very short biography
• Sylvester, James Joseph (1814-1897)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Szalay, Sandor (b. 1909)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Szerdahely, Georg (1740-1808)
  • Very short biography and about his Historia Uraniae Musae
• Szilard, Leo (1898-1964)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Register of Leo Szilard Papers, 1898-1964 at University of California Library, Special Collections (Or see ASCII version. See also here and here.)
    Including a short biography

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 15 Dec 2012