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
Simon NewcombAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte