History of Astronomy : Persons

History of Astronomy: Persons (W)

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• Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der (1903-1996)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Obituary
  • Interview, by Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian)
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• Waineo, Thomas (1935-1996)
  • Obituary
• Walch, A.T. (? - ?)
  • Archival sources
• Waldmeier, Max (b. 1912)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian) (See also here.)
• Walker, Arthur Geoffrey (1909-2001)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wallace, William (1768-1843)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wallenquist, Åke Anders Edvard (1904-1994)
  • Short biography
  • Very short biographical data and links
  • (2114) Wallenquist
• Wallingford: see Richard of Wallingford (1291/92-1336(?))
• Wallis, John (1616-1703)
  • Biography
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Walmesley, Charles (1722-1797)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Walton, Ernest (b. 1903)
  • Very short biographical data (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Wangerin, Albert (1844-1933)
  • Very short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Warburg, Aby M. (1869-1929)
• Ward, Seth (1617-1689)
  • Biographical data and references
• Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm (1717-1783)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With short biographies in Swedish.
• Warner, Worcester Reed (1846-1929)
  • Very short biography
  • History of the Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case Western Reserve University
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• Washburn, Cadwallader Colden (1818-1882)
  • Short biography
  • Washburn Observatory
• Wassenius [Vassenius], Birger (1687-1771)
  • Very short biographical data and links
    With a short biography in Swedish.
• Watson, James Craig (1838-1880)
  • James Craig Watson Medal
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• Watson-Watt, Robert (1892-1973)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Weber, Joseph (1919-2000)
  • Obituary, by Virginia Trimble
    Please not that this obituary was not published in Mercury vol. 30, 2001, issue 1, as indicated. This issue contains only a summary (p. 6).
• Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804-1891)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Biography and other information
  • Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Bust of Weber
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Wegener, Alfred Lothar (1880-1930)
  • Short biographies and references
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography
  • Short biography and references (in German)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
  • Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung (in German)
  • Alfred Wegener peninsula
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• Wegg-Prosser, Francis Richard (1824-1911)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Wehlau, William H. (1926-1995)
  • Obituary
  • Obituary and William H. Wehlau Memorial Scholarship Fund (or see here)
• Weierstraß [Weierstrass], Karl Wilhelm Theodor (1815-1897)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references (Or see here.)
  • Very short biography
• Weinberg, Steven (b. 1933)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979
    Including an autobiography
  • Very short biography
• Weinstein, Alexander (1897-1979)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Weiß [Weiss], Edmund (1837-1917)
  • Very short biography (Or see German version.)
• Welser, Marc (1558-1614)
  • Short biography and relation to Galileo
• Wendelin [Vendelinus], Gottfried (1580-1667)
  • Biographical data and references
• Werner, Johann (1468-1522)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Westerlund, Bengt E. (b. 1921)
  • (2902) Westerlund
• Westfall, Richard S. (1924-1996)
  • Short biography
  • Obituary (Or see here.)
    The New York Times, 1 September, 1996
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• Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo (1885-1955)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian)
• Wharton, George (1617-1681)
  • Biographical data and references
• Whipple, Fred Lawrence (b. 1906)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography
• Whiston, William (1667-1752)
  • Biography
  • Biographical data and references
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• White, Edward John (1831-1913)
  • Short biographical data
  • Biographical data and bibliography
• White, Henry Seely (1861-1943)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Whitehorne, Mary Lou (fl. 20th c.)
  • Very short biography
• Whitford, Albert Edward (b. 1905)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Whiting, Sarah F. (1846-1927)
  • Short biography
• Whitney, Mary Watson (1847-1921)
  • Short biography (Or see here.)
• Whittaker, Edmund Taylor (1873-1956)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Widmannstätten, Alois von Beckh- [Aloys Beck, Edler von Widmannstätten] (1753/54-1849)
  • Short biography and references
• Wien, Wilhelm (1864-1928)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wilczek, Frank Anthony (b. 1951)
  • Very short biography
• Wilczynski, Ernest Julius (1876-1932)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532-1592)
  • Biographical data and references
• Wilhelm von Hirsau [Wilhelm der Selige; Engl. William of Hirsau; Blessed William] (?-1091)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Wilkins, John (1614-1672)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Very short biography
• Willcox, Kenneth W. (1943-1999)
  • Obituary
  • Obituary
• William IV, King of England (1765-1837)
  • Short biographical data
• William of Auvergne [Guillaume d'Auvergne] (c.1180-1249)
  • About his De Universo (in Italian, introduction in English; 5 June 1997: disappeared)
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• William of Conches (c.1100-?)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• William of Hirsau: see Wilhelm von Hirsau (?-1091)
• William of Moerbeke (c.1215-1286)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Williams, Robley Cook (b. 1908)
  • Very short biography
• Wills, William John (1834-1861)
  • Short biographical data and archival sources
• Wilson, Alexander (1714-1786)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wilson, Benjamin
  • Very short biographical data
• Wilson, Olin Chaddock (1909-1994)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Short biography
• Wilson, Robert Woodrow (b. 1936)
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
    Including an autobiography.
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biographical data and links
  • Very short biography
• Wilson, Stephanie D. (b. 1966)
  • Biographical data
• Winckelmann, Maria Margarethe: see Kirch, Maria Margarethe, née Winckelmann (1670-1720)
• Windischmann, Karl Joseph Hieronymus (1775-1839)
  • Short biography and references
    From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
• Wing, Vincent (1619-1668)
  • Biographical data and references
• Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor (1835-1897)
  • Short biography, references, links (H. Frommert, C. Kronberg)
• Winthrop, John (1606-1676)
  Relation to astronomy: had a telescope and observed the heavens
  • Biographical data and references
  • Very short biography
• Winthrop, John (1714-1779)
  • Very short biography
  • Professor John Winthrop's Notes on Sun Spot Observations (1739), by Frederick G. Kilgour
• Wintner, Aurel Friedrich (1903-1958)
  • Short biography and reference (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Wirtz, Carl Wilhelm (1876-1939)
  • Hans Rosenberg und Carl Wirtz - Zwei Kieler Astronomen in der NS-Zeit, von Ch. Theis, S. Deiters, C. Einsel, F. Homann (in German)
    Sterne und Weltraum 38, vol. 2, p. 126 (1999). - Available as Postscript file.
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• Witt, John H. de, Jr. (20th c.)
  • Very short biography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Wittich, Paul (c.1546-1586)
  • Biographical data and references
• Wolf, Johann Rudolf (1816-1893)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian) (See also here.)
• Wolf, Max[imilian] Franz Joseph Cornelius (1863-1932)
  • Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
  • Very short biography
• Wolfer, Alfred (1854-1931)
  • Index of archival sources (in German, partly in French and Italian) (See also here.)
• Wollaston, William (1766-1828)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
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• Woodhouse, Robert (1773-1827)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Short biography and references
• Woodward, Robert Simpson (1849-1924)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Woolley, Richard van der Reit (1906-1986)
  • Biography
  • Short biographical data
  • Biographical data and bibliography
  • Short biography
• Wren, Christopher, Sir (1632-1723)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
  • Biographical data and references
  • Very short biography
• Wright, Edward (1561-1615)
  • Biographical data and references
• Wright, Horatio George Anthony (1827-1901)
  • Very short biography and archival sources
• Wright, Thomas (1711-1786)
  • Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Wronski, Josef Hoëné de (1778-1853)
  • Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 16 Jan 1995. Latest update: 11 Feb 2004