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
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Hubert GentFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Margherita HackHonorary Fellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Audouin Charles DollfusHonorary Fellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Leon Knopoff
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
David AitkenFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Michael William FeastHonorary Fellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Arnold Wolfendale
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Kashinath NandyFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
John BastinFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Bernard PagelFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Michael HoskinHonorary Fellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Riccardo GiacconiHonorary Fellow
Karl FuchsHonorary Fellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Nigel WeissFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
David MatraversFellow
Brian JacobAssociate
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
David Le Conte
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
John Edward DysonFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow