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
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte