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
Edmund WeissAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate