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
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate