284 people found
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Ernst Chladni
German physicist, mathematician and musician
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
George Peacock
Scottish mathematician
John Williams
British astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physical scientist
Thomas Young
English polymath
William Lax
Astronomer
John Herschel
English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
Siméon Denis Poisson
Mathematician, geometer and physicist
William Henry Smyth
English naval officer and hydrographer
Jurij Vega
Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
William Hyde Wollaston
Scientist, physicist
William Dawes
British colonial administrator
Thomas Brisbane
British Army general
David Brewster
British astronomer and mathematician
Theophilos Kairis
Priest, revolutionary
Andrew Ure
Scottish doctor and chemist
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
Edward Sabine
British Army general
Christopher Hansteen
Norwegian geomagnetist
Thomas Romney Robinson
British astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian-German astronomer
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
British astronomer, naturalist, and philosopher
John Herapath
British astronomer
Josef de Mendoza y Ríos
Spanish astronomer and mathematician (1761–1816)
William Wallace
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Edward Joshua Cooper
Landowner, politician and astronomer
Amasa Holcomb
Manufacturer of telescopes
William Pearson
English schoolmaster and astronomer
Thomas James Henderson
Lawyer, astronomer and mathematician
Xu Zongyan
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 29717
Johann Franz Encke
German astronomer
Ernesto Capocci Belmonte
Italian mathematician, astronomer and politician
Nathaniel Bowditch
American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation
Jean-Louis-Alexandre Herrenschneider
French astronomer, mathematician, chemist and physicist
James Dunlop
Australian astronomer
Friedrich Trechsel
Swiss theologian, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and geodesist
David Friesenhausen
Hungarian maskil, rabbi, and astronomer