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
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate