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
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate