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
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff