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Alexander Friedmann
Jahrbuch fuer die Fortschritte der Mathematik
Dirk Frimout (in German)
Dirk Frimout (in French)
Dirk Frimout (in Dutch)
Georges Lemaître
Georges Lemaître (in German)
Georges Lemaître (in French)
Georges Lemaître (in Dutch)
Sackler Archive Resource (Biographies)
Biographies
Biography: Matthew Fountaine Maury (1806-1873)
Google Search: Chladni Ernst
Famous Astronomers and Astrophysicists
Famous Physicists
Brouncker, William Viscount (ca. 1620-1684) -- under construction
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677) -- under construction
Borchardt, Karl (1817-1880) -- under construction
Guide to bio-bibliographical handbooks
The Theseus homepage
The Theseus homepage of Svante Elis Strömgren
The Theseus homepage of Bengt Strömgren
Donald E. Osterbrock
Ernst J. Öpik
E. Margaret Burbidge
Daniel Bernoulli - zum dreihundertsten Geburtstag
MFP / Personen-People / Wer war wer ...
The Royal Observatory Greenwich by E. Walter Maunder F.R.A.S
DE LA RUE, WARREN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000
"Ideological crests versus empirical troughs: John Herschel's and William Radcliffe Birt's research on atmospheric waves
J. C. Poggendorff Homepage - Biographic-Literary Dictionary of the Exact Sciences - Database
Alfred Wegener
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
Alexander von Humboldt im Netz
Nobel Laureates
The George Gamow Memorial Lecture Series Homepage
Alexander Friedmann
Autobiography of Dudley R. Herschbach
1992Natur.356..414H
CV of John N. Bahcall
Biography of Walther Hermann Nernst
Biography of A.A. Michelson
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen
Biography of F. Zernike
Nobel e-Museum - Search results
Biography of C. D. Anderson
Biography of A. H. Compton
Astronomie.de - Messier
Das Leben des Joseph von Fraunhofer
Regiomontanus - Astronomie
Christiaan Huygens
Galilei-Gymnasium: Galileo Galilei - Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
Caroline Herschel: Die Kometenjägerin - Vor 250 Jahren wurde die außergewöhnliche Astronomin in Hannover geboren
Dinawari, ad-
Diogenes Of Apollonia
Dionysius Exiguus
Dirac, P.A.M.
Divini, Eustachio
Dixon, Jeremiah
Dollfus, Audouin
Dollond, George
Dollond, John
Dollond, Peter
Donati, Giovanni Battista
Douglass, Andrew Ellicott
Draper, Henry
Dreyer, Johan Ludvig Emil
Duhem, Pierre(-Maurice-Marie)
Dunér, Nils Christofer
Dürer, Albrecht
Dyson, Sir Frank (Watson)
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley
Elijah ben Solomon
Einstein, Albert
Emden, Robert
Encke, Johann Franz
Erastus, Thomas
Eratosthenes Of Cyrene
Essen, Louis
Essen, Louis - Year in Review 1997: Obituary
Euclid
Eudemus Of Rhodes
Eudoxus Of Cnidus
Euler, Leonhard
Evershed, John
ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir
Fabre d'Églantine, Philippe(-François-Nazaire)
Fabricius, Johannes
Fabry, Charles
Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi
Fang Lizhi
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard P.
Ficino, Marsilio
Figulus, Publius Nigidius
FitzGerald, George Francis
Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-Louis
Flamsteed, John
Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens
Fludd, Robert
Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon
Fourier, (Jean-Baptiste-)Joseph, Baron
Fowler, William A.
Fowler, William Alfred from Year in Review 1995: obituary
Fracastoro, Girolamo
Frederick II
Frederick III
?? Frémont, John C(harles)
Friedmann, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Frisi, Paolo
Gagarin, Yury Alekseyevich
Galileo
Galle, Johann Gottfried
Gamow, George
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Geiger, Hans
Gemistus Plethon, George
George III
Gerard Of Cremona
Gilbert, William
Gill, Sir David
Gilliss, James Melville
Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich
Goddard, Robert Hutchings
Godwin, Francis
Gold, Thomas
Goodricke, John
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
Graham, George
Gregoras, Nicephorus
Gregory XIII
Gregory, James
? Grimthorpe (of Grimthorpe), Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron
Groombridge, Stephen
Grosseteste, Robert
Grotius, Hugo
Guarini, Guarino
Guericke, Otto von
Gunter, Edmund
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Hadley, John
Hagen, Johann Georg
Hale, George Ellery
Hall, Asaph
Hall, Chester Moor
Halley, Edmond
Hamdani, al-
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
Hansen, Peter Andreas
Hansteen, Christopher
Thomas Hariot (1560-1621)
Harriot, Thomas
Harrison, John
Hauksbee, Francis, The Younger
Hawking, Stephen W.
Hayford, John Fillmore
Heckmann, Otto (Hermann Leopold)
Heisenberg, Werner
Henderson, Thomas
Heracleides Ponticus
Heracleitus
Hermann Von Reichenau
Hero Of Alexandria
Herodotus
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, Sir John (Frederick William)
Herschel, Sir William (Frederick)
Hertz, Heinrich (Rudolf)
Hertzsprung, Ejnar
Hesiod
Hess, Victor Francis
Hevelius, Johannes
Hewish, Antony
Hill, George William
Hipparchus
Hippias Of Elis
Hogg-Priestly, Helen Battles Sawyer
Honda Toshiaki
Hooke, Robert
Horrocks, Jeremiah
? Houdon, Jean-Antoine
Hoyle, Sir Fred
Huai-nan-tzu
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Huet, Pierre-Daniel
Huggins, Sir William
Hulse, Russell Alan
Hulst, Hendrik Christoffel van de
Hume, David
Huygens, Christiaan
Hypatia
Ibn al-Athir
Ibn al-Jawzi
Ibn Sina; Avicenna
ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir
ibn Tibbon, Moses ben Samuel
Idrisi, ash-Sharif al-
Imhotep
? Ishmael ben Elisha
Isidore Of Seville, Saint
Jansky, Karl (Guthe)
Janssen, Pierre (-Jules-César)
Jean De Meun
Jeans, Sir James
Jeffreys, Sir Harold
Jordan, Pascual
Josephus, Flavius
K'ang Yu-wei
Kant, Immanuel
Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius
Kautilya
Keeler, James (Edward)
Kepler, Johannes
Kerr, Roy P(atrick)
Omar Khayyam
Khosrow I (see Patron of culture)
Khwarizmi, al-
Kidinnu
Kino, Eusebio
Kircher, Athanasius
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Komarov, Vladimir Mikhaylovich
Kopal, Zdenek
Kozyrev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Kuhn, Thomas S. Year in Review 1996: Obituary
Kuiper, Gerard Peter
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
Lalande, Jérôme
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Lamont, Johann von
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Landen, John
Lane, Jonathan Homer
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
? Lao-tzu (see The life of Lao-tzu)
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Lassell, William
Lattes, C.M.G.
Laue, Max von
#? Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lemaître, Georges
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo Pisano [Leonardo von Pisa]
Leonov, Aleksey Arkhipovich
Le Verrier, Urbain-Jean-Joseph
Levi ben Gershom
Levy
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
Lindblad, Bertil
Lippershey, Hans
Livy
Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Longair, Malcolm Sim
Longomontanus, Christian
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Lovell, Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard
Lovell, James A(rthur), Jr.
Lowell, Percival
Lucian
Lyell, Sir Charles, Baronet
Lyot, Bernard(-Ferdinand)
Mädler, Johann Heinrich von
Marius, Simon
Maskelyne, Nevil
Mathieu, Claude-Louis
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de
Maxwell, James Clerk
Mechain, Pierre (-François-André)
Melanchthon, Philipp
Mercator, Gerardus
Mersenne, Marin
Messier, Charles
Metochites, Theodore
Michelson, A.A.
Milne, Edward Arthur
Minkowski, Hermann
Mitchell, Maria
Möbius, August Ferdinand
Monge, Gaspard, Comte (count) De Péluse
Morgan, William Wilson
Morley, Edward Williams
Mutis, José (Celestino Bruno)
Nabu-rimanni
Napier, John
Nasmyth, James
Newcomb, Simon
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nicholson, Seth Barnes
Numa Pompilius
Oberth, Hermann (Julius)
Oberth, Hermann (Julius)
Olbers, Wilhelm
Oort, Jan Hendrik
Öpik, Ernest Julius
Oughtred, William
Overweg, Adolf
Pappus Of Alexandria
Paracelsus
Pascal, Blaise
Pascal, Blaise
Peirce, Benjamin
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Penrose, Sir Roger
Penzias, Arno
Piazzi, Giuseppe
Picard, Jean
Pickering, Edward Charles
Pindar
Planck, Max
Plato
Plücker, Julius
Plutarch
Poincaré, Henri
Poisson, Siméon-Denis
Polybius
Pond, John
Poseidonius
Proclus
Ptolemy
Purcell, Edward Mills
Pythagoras
? Raleigh, Sir Walter
navigation
Ramsden, Jesse
Reber, Grote
Regiomontanus
Reichenbach, Georg von
Rømer, Ole (Christensen)
Rudolf II
De la Rue, Warren
Russell, Henry Norris
Rutherford, Ernest
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
Ryle, Sir Martin
Sabine, Sir Edward
Sagan, Carl Edward
Saha, Meghnad N.
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Schall von Bell, Adam
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
Schlesinger, Frank
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar
Schmidt, Maarten
Schramm, David N.
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schwarzschild, Karl
Secchi, Pietro Angelo
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Shapley, Harlow
Shoemaker,
Shoemaker, Eugene Merle
Sitter, Willem de
Slipher, Vesto Melvin
Socrates
Sosigenes Of Alexandria
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer
Spitzer, Lyman, Jr.
Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Stevens, Albert William
Strabo
Strömgren, Bengt (Georg Daniel)
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von
Struve, Otto
Swings, Pol
Talbot, William Henry Fox
Tarquin
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.
Teller, Edward
Tereshkova, Valentina
Thales Of Miletus
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
Thomson, Sir J.J.
Thucydides
Titius, Johann Daniel
Tolman, Richard C(hace)
Tombaugh, Clyde William
Tombaugh, Clyde William - Year in Review 1997: obituary
Tompion, Thomas
Torricelli, Evangelista
Trumpler, Robert Julius
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Turner, Herbert Hall
Tusi, Nasir ad-Din at-
Ulugh Beg
Väisälä, Yrjö
Varahamihira
de Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri
Verbiest, Ferdinand
Vermeer, Jan
Vitruvius
Vogel, Hermann Karl
Voltaire
Wallis, John
White, Edward H., II
White, Edward H., II
Whitney, Mary Watson
Wien, Wilhelm
Wilson, Robert Woodrow
Wolf, Max
Wolff, Christian, Freiherr (Baron) von
Wren, Sir Christopher
Young, Charles Augustus
Zeeman, Pieter
Zeiss, Carl
Zucchi, Niccolò
Zwicky, Fritz


Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 20 Aug 2001. Latest update: 29 July 2002