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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate