History of Astronomy - Biographies

Compiled by Gary Agranat
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This page highlights websites specificly about biographies. Many
websites with broader focus feature biographical information. You
should check those as well.
Contents
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Famous People Index @ Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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History of Astronomy: People Index @
Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
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BBC Online - Space - People
From Anaxagoras to Fritz Zwicky.
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Famous People @
ASTRO 201 General Topics (Cornell Univ. course)
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Astronomy Biographies by
Chris Plicht
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Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball (online text), 1895.
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Flamsteed, Halley,
Bradley, William Herschel, Laplace, Brinkley, John Herschel, William Parsons, Airy,
Hamilton, Le Verrier, Adams.
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Short biographies of The Bruce Medalists
awards by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific since 1898; includes
many prominent astronomers
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Frank's Website - Astronomy People
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Women Astronomers At the Turn of the Century, 1880 - 1920
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The Woman Astronomer
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History of Astronomical Spectroscopy @ Laser Stars
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The Online Planetarium Show: Biographies Biographies of Copernicus,
Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Hubble.
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Great Astronomers @ Sacred Heart Secondary School, Clonakilty, West Cork,
Ireland
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Astronomer biographies in Spanish at
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica in Mexico.
- Also see
Astronomers in their own Words.

- Also see
Astronomical Society of the Pacific obituary articles.

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Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Science
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Indexes of Biographies @
History of Mathematics @ Mac Tutor
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A Science Odyssey PBS mini-series.
A number of pages about key 20th century discoveries and biographies, as well as
some fun presentations.
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TIME Magazine 100- Scientists & Thinkers of the 20th Century
March 29, 1999. Includes artilces about Hubble, Einstein, Goddard, Gödel
and Fermi.
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Famous Physicists, Astronomers and Engineers
some very brief biographies
- Dalibor Paar:
Famous Physicists and Astronomers
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Caltech Archives Oral Histories Online. Some are available
online.
- See links at
Horus-GIG Science & Mathematics, including,
Astronomers
@ UC Riverside
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Online images of some famous physicists @ Harry N. Nelson's website.
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Men of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy from Britannica,
@ Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Contributions of Women to 20th Century Physics
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SDSC - Women in Science
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4000 Years of Women in Science
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Women in Science - The British Council UK
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The World Great Mathematicians
@ Hong Kong Baptist University, Scientific Computing Laboratory.
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Famous Mathematicians, Central University of Venezuela.
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Mathematicians of the African Diaspora SUNY Buffalo Math Dept.
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Chem 103 Notes - History of Science by Paul Charlesworth.
Michigan Tech.
- History of Chemistry.
Informal biographies.
Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry.
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Figures In Radiation History. Includes some physicists.
Mich. State Univ.
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Vacuum History and Technology McAllister.
Includes some short biographies of early physicists and chemists.
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain has
biographies of some prominent physicists who worked there.
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History of Physics in Prague
Brahe & Kepler, Doppler, Mach, and Einstein.
Inst. of Theoretical Physics in Prague, Relativity Group.
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Electric Universe by CIPCO. There are sections at different grade levels, from 4th
grade to high school.
- Nobel Prizes
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Prominent Figures in Physics by students at New Lisbon H.S., Wisconsin.
The biographies tend to focus on the results of these physicists' work, but not
necessarily on how they did it or why.
- Inventive Genius - Biographies of Inventors
by students at Brisas Elementary School, Chandler, Az. Some pages about
Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Fermi.
Listed alphabetically. You may also find some of these people
in the Biography Collections links above.
Also check the section for the chronological
period you're interested in. Also see
Astronomers in their own Words.
- Archimedes
- Aristarchus
- Aristotle
- E.E. Barnard
- Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
- Tycho Brahe
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Jean-Dominique Cassini
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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- John Dalton
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John Dalton Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry.
- Albert Einstein

- Johann Franz Encke
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Johann Franz Encke - The Discovery of the Short Periodic Comets.
Jens Dengler. Berlin, Germany.
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- Joseph Fourier
- Benjamin Franklin
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The Electric Franklin by Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Includes
contemporary accounts of Franklin's experiments with electricity.
- Joseph von Fraunhofer
- Galileo Galilei
- Robert Goddard:
- Jesse L. Greenstein
H
- William Herschell and his family
- Enjar Hertzsprung
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Norman H. Horowitz (biologist)
- Sir Fred Hoyle
- Christaan Huygens
- Hypatia
J
- Karl Jansky
- Johannes Kepler
- Antoine de Lavoisier
- Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
- Percival Lowell
- Charles Messier
- Albert Michelson
- Maria Mitchell
- John Napier
- Isaac Newton
- Jan Hendrik Oort
- Hans C. Ørsted
- William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse.
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Ole Rømer
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Ole Rømer Institute for Physics and Astronomy,
of Aarhus University, Denmark.

- Carl Sagan
- Eugene M. Shoemaker
- Mary Somerville
- Lyman Spitzer Jr.
- Clyde Tombaugh
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- Alfred Russel Wallace
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The Alfred Russel Wallace Page Charles Smith,
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.
Thank you for writing me.
Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist and younger contemporary of Charles Darwin,
who came up with the theory of natural selection at about the same time as Darwin.
The website includes several of his papers, including:
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- Charles Yerkes

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