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
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate