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
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate