ORGANIZATION

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

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

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		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
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
Otto Heckmann	Astronomer	23-Jun-1901	13-May-1983	Investigated cosmic expansion
Harold Spencer Jones	Astronomer	29-Mar-1890	3-Nov-1960	10th Royal Astronomer of England
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jan-1922	Star streaming
Robert P. Kraft	Astronomer	16-Jun-1927		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
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
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
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928		Structure of galaxies
Martin Schwarzschild	Astronomer	31-May-1912	10-Apr-1997	Structure and Evolution of the Stars

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