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
Lewis BossAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate