Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate