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
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte