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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Sagan | Carl Edward Sagan | 1934 | 1996 | American | astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan |
| Abraham ibn Daud | Abraham ibn Daud | null | null | Spanish | Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Córdoba, Spain about 1110; died in Toledo, Spain, according to common report, a martyr about 1180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_ibn_Daud |
| Abraham Zacuto | Abraham Zacuto | 1452 | none | Spanish | astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zacuto |
| Vera Rubin | Vera Florence Cooper Rubin | 1928 | 2016 | American | astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin |
| Karl Schwarzschild | Karl Schwarzschild | 1873 | 1916 | German | physicist and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schwarzschild |
| Charles W. Juels | Charles W. Juels | 1944 | 2009 | American | amateur astronomer and psychiatrist by profession, who became a prolific discoverer of minor planets after his retirement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Juels |
| Gersonides | Levi ben Gershon | 1288 | 1344 | French | medieval Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gersonides |
| David H. Levy | David Howard Levy | 1948 | n/a | Canadian | amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Levy |
| Raphael Levi Hannover | Raphael Levi Hannover | 1685 | 1779 | German | Jewish mathematician and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Levi_Hannover |
| Arthur Adel | Arthur Adel | 1908 | 1994 | American | astronomer and astrophysicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Adel |
| Wendy Freedman | Wendy Laurel Freedman | 1957 | n/a | Canadian | astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Freedman |
| David L. Rabinowitz | David Lincoln Rabinowitz | 1960 | n/a | American | astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and researcher at Yale University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Rabinowitz |
| Arno Allan Penzias | Arno Allan Penzias | 1933 | n/a | American | physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Allan_Penzias |
| Mashallah ibn Athari | Mā Shā’ Allāh ibn Athari Dodge, pp. 650-651 | 740 | 815 | null | eighth-century Persian JewishSyed, p. 212 astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashallah_ibn_Athari |
| David Gans | David Gans | 1541 | 1613 | null | Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gans |
| Leon Mestel | Leon Mestel | 1927 | 2017 | British | astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Mestel |
| Al-Samawal al-Maghribi | Al-Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī | 1130 | 1180 | null | mathematician, astronomer and physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Samawal_al-Maghribi |
| Wilhelm Beer | Wilhelm Wolff Beer | 1797 | 1850 | null | banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Beer |
| Hermann Goldschmidt | Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt | 1802 | 1866 | German | astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Goldschmidt |
| Sara Seager | Sara Seager | 1971 | n/a | Canadian | astronomer and planetary scientist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Seager |
| Iosif Shklovsky | Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky | 1916 | 1985 | Soviet | astronomer and astrophysicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Shklovsky |
| Rudolph Minkowski | Rudolph Minkowski | 1895 | 1976 | German | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Minkowski |
| Isaac ibn Sid | Isaac ibn Sid | null | null | Spanish | Jewish astronomer; he flourished at the Toledo School of Translators in the second half of the thirteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_ibn_Sid |
| Hayyim Selig Slonimski | Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski | 1810 | 1904 | null | Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayyim_Selig_Slonimski |
| Marcelo Gleiser | Marcelo Gleiser | 1959 | n/a | Brazilian | physicist and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser |
| Robert Kirshner | Robert P. Kirshner | 1949 | n/a | American | astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirshner |
| Paul Guldin | Paul Guldin (original name Habakkuk Guldin; 12 June 1577 | 1577 | n/a | Swiss | Jesuit mathematician and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guldin |
| Jean-Claude Pecker | Jean-Claude Pecker | 1923 | 2020 | French | astronomer, astrophysicist and author, member of the French Academy of Sciences and director of the Nice Observatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Pecker |
| Janet Akyüz Mattei | Janet Akyüz Mattei | 1943 | 2004 | Turkish | astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Akyüz_Mattei |
| Erwin Finlay-Freundlich | Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS | 1885 | 1964 | German | astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Finlay-Freundlich |
| Jesse L. Greenstein | Jesse Leonard Greenstein | 1909 | 2002 | American | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Greenstein |
| Maurice Loewy | Maurice (Moritz) Loewy | 1833 | 1907 | French | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Loewy |
| Grigory Shajn | Grigory Abramovich Shajn | 1892 | 1956 | null | Soviet/Russian astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Shajn |
| Valentin Naboth | Valentin Naboth | 1523 | 1593 | German | mathematician, astronomer and astrologer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Naboth |
| Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt | Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt | 1807 | 1851 | German | astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wolfgang_Benjamin_Goldschmidt |
| Miguel Itzigsohn | Miguel Itzigsohn | 1908 | 1978 | Argentine | astronomer and observer of comets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 15 asteroids between 1948 and 1954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Itzigsohn |
| Kenneth Kellermann | Kenneth Irwin Kellermann | 1937 | n/a | American | astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Kellermann |
| Isaac Israeli ben Joseph | Isaac Israeli ben Joseph | null | null | Spanish | Jewish astronomer/astrologer who flourished at Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Israeli_ben_Joseph |
| Noah Brosch | Noah Brosch | 1948 | n/a | Israeli | astronomer, astrophysicist and space researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Brosch |
| Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov | Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov | null | null | Catalan | Jewish astronomer and astrologer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_ben_David_ben_Yom_Tov |
| Lipót Schulhof | Lipót Schulhof | 1847 | 1921 | Hungarian | Jewish astronomer, born in the Austrian Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipót_Schulhof |
| Paul L. Schechter | Paul L. Schechter | 1948 | n/a | American | astronomer and observational cosmologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Schechter |
| Friedrich Simon Archenhold | Friedrich Simon Archenhold | 1861 | 1939 | null | astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (today the Archenhold Observatory) in Berlin-Treptow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Simon_Archenhold |
| João Faras | Mestre João Faras, better known simply as Mestre João | null | null | null | astrologer, astronomer, physician and surgeon of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, and wrote a famous letter identifying the Southern Cross constellation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Faras |
| Shimon Lavi | Shimon Lavi | 1486 | 1585 | null | Sephardi Hakham, kabbalist, physician, astronomer, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Lavi |
| Edward Israel | Edward Israel | 1859 | 1884 | null | astronomer and Polar explorer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Israel |
| Immanuel Bonfils | Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils | 1300 | 1377 | French | Jewish mathematician and astronomer in medieval times who flourished from 1340 to 1377, a rabbi who was a pioneer of exponential calculus and is credited with inventing the system of decimal fractions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Bonfils |
| Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen | Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen | 1215 | 1274 | null | thirteenth-century Spanish Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ben_Solomon_ha-Kohen |
| David ben Yom Tov | David ben Yom Tov, also David Bonjorn del Barri | null | null | Catalan | Jewish astronomer and astrologer who lived in the first half of the fourteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ben_Yom_Tov |
| Semion Braude | Semion Yakovlevich Braude | 1911 | 2003 | Soviet | physicist and radio astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Braude |
| Karlina Leksono Supelli | Karlina Leksono Supelli | 1958 | n/a | Indonesian | philosopher and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlina_Leksono_Supelli |
| Abba Mari ben Eligdor | Abba Mari ben Eligdor | null | null | null | distinguished Talmudist, an eminent philosopher, a member of the Astruc family and an able physicist and astronomer who flourished in the fourteenth century in Salon-de-Provence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Mari_ben_Eligdor |
| Judah ibn Verga | Judah ibn Verga | null | null | Spanish | historian, kabalist, perhaps also mathematician, and astronomer, of the 15th century, born at Seville | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ibn_Verga |
| Isaac ibn al-Ahdab | Itzḥak ben Shlomo ibn al-Aḥdab (or ibn al-Ḥadib) ben Tzaddiq ha-Sefardi | 1350 | 1426 | null | Jewish mathematician, astronomer, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_ibn_al-Ahdab |
| Eduard Mahler | Eduard Mahler | 1857 | 1945 | Hungarian | astronomer, Orientalist, and natural scientist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Mahler |
| Solomon Ma'tuk | Solomon Ma'tuk, or Sulayman ben David Ma'tuk | null | null | null | communal leader, astronomer and Jewish devotional poet of Baghdad, whose piyyutim are still incorporated in Iraqi Jewish liturgy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Ma'tuk |
| Harriet H. Malitson | Harriet Hutzler Malitson | 1926 | 2012 | American | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_H._Malitson |
| John Herschel the Younger | Colonel John Herschel | 1837 | 1921 | English | military engineer, surveyor and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel_the_Younger |
| Alexander A. Gurshtein | Alexander Aronovich Gurshtein | 1937 | 2020 | null | Soviet/Russian astronomer and historian of science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_A._Gurshtein |
| Salomo Sachs | Salomo Sachs | 1772 | 1855 | German | architect, astronomer, Prussian building official, mathematician, drawing teacher for architecture, teacher for machine drawings, building economist, writer, author of non-fiction and textbooks and universal scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomo_Sachs |
| Elsa van Dien | Elsa van Dien | 1914 | 2007 | null | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_van_Dien |
| Alice Archenhold | Alice Archenhold | 1874 | 1943 | German | astronomer whose husband was fellow astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Archenhold |
| Pedro E. Zadunaisky | Pedro Elías Zadunaisky | 1917 | 2009 | Argentine | astronomer and mathematician who plotted the orbit of Saturn's most-distant moon, Phoebe, as well as several comets including Halley's Comet, and various satellites including Explorer I. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_E._Zadunaisky |
| Yehuda Farissol | Yehuda Farissol | null | null | Italian | Jewish mathematician and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Farissol |
| Reysa Bernson | Reysa Verhaeghe or Reysa Bernson | 1904 | 1944 | French | astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reysa_Bernson |
| Solomon ben Elijah Sharbit | Solomon ben Elijah Sharbit Ha-Zahab | null | null | null | Jewish astronomer, poet, and grammarian; he lived at Salonica and later at Ephesus, in the second half of the fourteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_ben_Elijah_Sharbit |
| Shabtai Ambron | Shabtai Ambron | null | null | Italian | Jewish philosopher and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabtai_Ambron |
| Hayyim ben Judah ibn Musa | Hayyim ben Judah ibn Musa | null | null | null | Jewish physician, chemist, astronomer, and apologist who contended with Nicholas de Lyra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayyim_ben_Judah_ibn_Musa |
| Germán Martínez Hidalgo | Germán Martinez Hidalgo | 1929 | 2009 | null | scientist, physicist, mathematician, chemist, and astronomer who popularized science by writing weekly articles in the Mexican newspaper, El Sol de Puebla | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germán_Martínez_Hidalgo |
| Jacob ben Isaac Corsono | Jacob ben Isaac al-Corsono | null | null | Spanish | astronomer of the fourteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_ben_Isaac_Corsono |
| Mordechai Finzi | Mordechai ben Abraham Finzi | 1407 | 1476 | null | Jewish mathematician, astronomer, grammarian and physician in Mantua | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Finzi |
| Elias Höchheimer | Elias ben Ḥayyim Cohen Höchheimer (or Hechim) | null | null | null | eighteenth century Jewish astronomer and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Höchheimer |
| Samuel Kansi | Samuel Kansi | null | null | French | astronomer of the 14th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Kansi |
| Sanad ibn Ali | Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali al-Yahudi | 864 | n/a | null | ninth-century Iraqi Jewish astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer employed at the court of the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanad_ibn_Ali |