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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate