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)
Name | Born | Died | Elected | Membership status |
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Edith Alice Müller | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Inge Lehmann | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Shin Hirayama | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Ian Axford | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Georges Lemaître | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Willy Hartner | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Olaf Pedersen | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Edwin Powell Hubble | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Francis Birch | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu | Fellow, later Associate | |||
William Alfred Fowler | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Lyman, Jr. Spitzer | Fellow, later Associate | |||
Michael J Thompson | Honorary Fellow | |||
Michael William Feast | Honorary Fellow | |||
Johannes Geiss | Honorary Fellow | |||
Margherita Hack | Honorary Fellow | |||
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens] | Honorary Fellow | |||
Anthony Patrick Fairall | Honorary Fellow | |||
Annie Jump Cannon | Honorary Fellow | |||
Anne Sheepshanks | Honorary Fellow | |||
King Christian VIII Denmark | Honorary Fellow | |||
King Frederick VI Denmark | Honorary Fellow | |||
Churisho Hayashi | Honorary Fellow | |||
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig] | Honorary Fellow | |||
Michael Hoskin | Honorary Fellow | |||
Neil Gehrels | Honorary Fellow | |||
Audouin Charles Dollfus | Honorary Fellow | |||
Sir Harry Kroto | Honorary Fellow | |||
Caroline Lucretia Herschel | Honorary Fellow | |||
Cornelis de Jager | Honorary Fellow | |||
Karl Fuchs | Honorary Fellow | |||
Riccardo Giacconi | Honorary Fellow | |||
Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins | Honorary Fellow | |||
Agnes Mary Clerke | Honorary Fellow | |||
Eigil Friis-Christensen | Honorary Fellow | |||
Reginald James Harman | Junior Member | |||
Patrick Brendan Byrne | Junior Member | |||
Peter D. Hingley | Staff | |||
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen] | Staff |