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
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte