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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Fred Taylor | Fellow | |||
John D. Barrow | Fellow | |||
Alan Douglas | Fellow | |||
Edward Rowell Benton | Fellow | |||
Colin Pillinger | Fellow | |||
Phil J S Williams | Fellow | |||
Harry Elliot | Fellow | |||
Daniel Alberto Valencio | Associate | |||
Margherita Hack | Honorary Fellow | |||
Dyfrig Jones | Fellow | |||
Christopher John Skinner | Fellow | |||
Rebecca Anne Wood Elson | Fellow | |||
Riccardo Giacconi | Honorary Fellow | |||
Johannes Geiss | Honorary Fellow | |||
David Matravers | Fellow | |||
Keith Colin Smith | Fellow | |||
Karl Fuchs | Honorary Fellow | |||
Donald F. Trombino | Fellow | |||
David Hughes | Fellow | |||
David Le Conte | ||||
Robert Hanbury Brown | Fellow | |||
Eigil Friis-Christensen | Honorary Fellow | |||
Andy Breen | Fellow | |||
Peter Molnar | Fellow | |||
Alan David Johnstone | Fellow | |||
Gerhard Müller | Associate | |||
Barbara Bromage | Fellow | |||
Paul Ruffle | Fellow | |||
Mike Cripps | Fellow | |||
John Griffiths | Fellow | |||
Sir Harry Kroto | Honorary Fellow | |||
Laike Asfaw | Fellow | |||
Virpi Niemela | Associate | |||
Michael Hoskin | Honorary Fellow | |||
David Carter | Fellow | |||
Bruce Swinyard | Fellow | |||
Neil Gehrels | Honorary Fellow | |||
Michael J Thompson | Honorary Fellow | |||
Mark Anderson | Fellow |