ORGANIZATION

Founded 1919 to "promote and safeguard the science of astronomy."

Official Website:
http://www.iau.org/

Founding Date:
1919

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Walter S. Adams	Astronomer	20-Dec-1876	11-May-1956	Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory
Adriaan Blaauw	Astronomer	12-Apr-1914	1-Dec-2010	Evolving galaxies
Bart Jan Bok	Astronomer	28-Apr-1906	5-Aug-1983	Bok globules
John G. Bolton	Astronomer	5-Jun-1922	6-Jul-1993	First Director of Parkes Observatory
Dirk Brouwer	Astronomer	1-Sep-1902	31-Jan-1966	Celestial mechanics
R. Hanbury Brown	Astronomer	31-Aug-1916	16-Jan-2002	Optical intensity interferometer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Astronomer	15-Jul-1943		Co-Discoverer of pulsars
William W. Campbell	Astronomer	11-Apr-1862	14-Jun-1938	Stellar Motions
Thomas George Cowling	Mathematician	17-Jun-1906	16-Jun-1990	Cowling model
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Henri Alexandre Deslandres	Astronomer	24-Jul-1853	15-Jan-1948	Spectroheliograph
Frank W. Dyson	Astronomer	8-Jan-1868	25-May-1939	Six pips on the BBC
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
Alfred Fowler	Astronomer	22-Mar-1868	24-Jun-1940	Celestial spectroscopy
Guillermo Haro	Astronomer	21-Mar-1913	26-Apr-1988	Herbig-Haro objects
Otto Heckmann	Astronomer	23-Jun-1901	13-May-1983	Investigated cosmic expansion
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jun-1922	Star streaming
Robert P. Kraft	Astronomer	16-Jun-1927	26-May-2015	Lick Observatory
Armin O. Leuschner	Astronomer	16-Jan-1868	22-Apr-1953	Astronomer at Berkeley
Bertil Lindblad	Astronomer	26-Nov-1895	25-Jun-1965	Spiral structure of the galaxy
Bernard Lovell	Astronomer	31-Aug-1913	6-Aug-2012	Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank
Willem J. Luyten	Astronomer	7-Mar-1899	21-Nov-1994	Stellar mortician
Bernard Lyot	Astronomer	27-Feb-1897	2-Apr-1952	Sandstorms on Mars
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Marcel Minnaert	Astronomer	12-Feb-1893	26-Oct-1970	Solar spectrophotometry
Charlotte E. Moore	Astronomer	24-Sep-1898	3-Mar-1990	Technetium in the Sun
Jan Hendrik Oort	Astronomer	28-Apr-1900	5-Nov-1992	Theory of the origin of comets
Bohdan Paczynski	Astronomer	8-Feb-1940	19-Apr-2007	Gravitational microlensing
Arno Penzias	Astronomer	26-Apr-1933		Detected primordial radiation
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928		Structure of galaxies
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes
Brian P. Schmidt	Astronomer	24-Feb-1967		Accelerating universe
Martin Schwarzschild	Astronomer	31-May-1912	10-Apr-1997	Structure and Evolution of the Stars
Frederick Hanley Seares	Astronomer	17-May-1873	20-Jul-1964	Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory
Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomer	29-Mar-1890	3-Nov-1960	10th Royal Astronomer of England
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars
Otto Struve	Astronomer	12-Aug-1897	6-Apr-1963	Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
Robert Watson-Watt	Physicist	13-Apr-1892	5-Dec-1973	Radar
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory
Robert Woodrow Wilson	Astronomer	10-Jan-1936		Detected primordial radiation

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