Astronomers A–Z
Every astronomer in the encyclopedia, alphabetically.
47 entries.
- Astronomer
Adam Riess
1969 CE – present
- Astronomer
Al-Battani
c. 858 CE – 929 CE
- Astronomer
Al-Sufi
903 CE – 986 CE
- Astronomer
Andrea Ghez
1965 CE – present
- Astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 CE – 1941 CE
- Astronomer
Arno Penzias
1933 CE – 2024 CE
- Astronomer
Aryabhata
476 CE – c. 550 CE
- Astronomer
Brian Schmidt
1967 CE – present
- Astronomer
Carl Sagan
1934 CE – 1996 CE
- Astronomer
Caroline Herschel
1750 CE – 1848 CE
- Astronomer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1900 CE – 1979 CE
- Astronomer
Charles Messier
1730 CE – 1817 CE
- Astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
1629 CE – 1695 CE
- Astronomer
Didier Queloz
1966 CE – present
- Astronomer
Edmond Halley
1656 CE – 1742 CE
- Astronomer
Edward Charles Pickering
1846 CE – 1919 CE
- Astronomer
Edwin Hubble
1889 CE – 1953 CE
- Astronomer
Fritz Zwicky
1898 CE – 1974 CE
- Astronomer
Galileo Galilei
1564 CE – 1642 CE
- Astronomer
Georges Lemaître
1894 CE – 1966 CE
- Astronomer
Giovanni Cassini
1625 CE – 1712 CE
- Astronomer
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868 CE – 1921 CE
- Astronomer
Henry Draper
1837 CE – 1882 CE
- Astronomer
Hipparchus
c. 190 BCE – c. 120 BCE
- Astronomer
Isaac Newton
1643 CE – 1727 CE
- Astronomer
Jane Luu
1963 CE – present
- Astronomer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1943 CE – present
- Astronomer
Johann Galle
1812 CE – 1910 CE
- Astronomer
Johannes Kepler
1571 CE – 1630 CE
- Astronomer
John Herschel
1792 CE – 1871 CE
- Astronomer
Maarten Schmidt
1929 CE – 2022 CE
- Astronomer
Michel Mayor
1942 CE – present
- Astronomer
Nancy Grace Roman
1925 CE – 2018 CE
- Astronomer
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
1201 CE – 1274 CE
- Astronomer
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1958 CE – present
- Astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 CE – 1543 CE
- Astronomer
Ptolemy
c. 100 CE – c. 170 CE
- Astronomer
Reinhard Genzel
1952 CE – present
- Astronomer
Robert Wilson
1936 CE – present
- Astronomer
Saul Perlmutter
1959 CE – present
- Astronomer
Stephen Hawking
1942 CE – 2018 CE
- Astronomer
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 CE – 1995 CE
- Astronomer
Tycho Brahe
1546 CE – 1601 CE
- Astronomer
Ulugh Beg
1394 CE – 1449 CE
- Astronomer
Urbain Le Verrier
1811 CE – 1877 CE
- Astronomer
Vera Rubin
1928 CE – 2016 CE
- Astronomer
William Herschel
1738 CE – 1822 CE