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
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate