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
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Mark Birkinshaw
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte