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A Abbe (after Ernst Abbe, German physicist) Abbot (after Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist) Abduh (after Mohammad Abduh, Egyptian writer) Abel (after Niels Henrik Abel) Abenezra (after Abraham ibn Ezra) Abetti (after Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer) Abul Wáfa (after Abul Wafa, Persian astronomer and mathematician) Abulfeda (after Ismael Abul-fida, Syrian geographer) Acosta (after Cristobal Acosta, Portuguese doctor) Adams (jointly after astronomers John Couch Adams, Walter Sidney Adams, and Charles H. Adams) Agatharchides (after Agatharchides) Agrippa (after Agrippa, Greek astronomer) Airy (after George Biddell Airy) Aitken (after Robert Aitken, American astronomer) Akis (a common Greek female name) Alan (a common Irish male name) Al-Bakri (after A. A. al-Bakri, Spanish-Arabian geographer) Albategnius (after al-Batani) Al-Biruni (after al-Biruni) Alden (after Harold Alden, American astronomer) Alder (after Kurt Alder, German chemist) Aldrin (after Buzz Aldrin) Alekhin (after Nikolai Alekhin, Soviet rocket designer) Alexander (after Alexander the Great) Alfraganus (after al Fargani, Persian astronomer) Alhazen (after Alhazen) Aliacensis (after Pierre d'Ailly, French geographer) Al-Khwarizmi (after al-Khwarizmi) Almanon (after Abdalla Al Mamun, Persian astronomer) Al-Marrakushi (after Al-Marrakushi, Moroccan astronomer) Aloha (a Hawaiian greeting) Alpetragius (after Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi, Moroccan astronomer) Alphonsus (after Alfonso X of Castile) Alter (after Dinsmore Alter, American astronomer) Ameghino (after Fiorino Ameghino, Italian natural historian) Amici (after Giovanni Amici, Italian astronomer) Ammonius (after Ammonius, Greek philosopher) Amontons (after Guillaume Amontons, French physicist) Amundsen (after Roald Amundsen) Anaxagoras (after Anaxagoras) Anaximander Anaximenes Andĕl Anders Anderson Andersson Andronov Ango Angström Ann Annegrit Ansgarius Antoniadi Anuchin Anville Apianus Apollo (after Apollo) Apollonius (after Apollonius of Perga) Appleton Arago Aratus Archimedes (after Archimedes) Archytas Argelander Ariadaeus Ariosto Aristarchus (after Aristarchus) Aristillus Aristoteles (after Aristoteles) Armiński Armstrong (after Neil Armstrong) Arnold Arrhenius Artamonov Artem'ev Artemis (Greek goddess) Artsimovich Aryabhata Arzachel Asada Asclepi Ashbrook Aston Atlas Atwood Austen Autolycus Auwers Auzout Avery Avicenna Avogadro Azophi B Baade Babakin Babbage (after Charles Babbage) Babcock Back Backlund Baco Baillaud Bailly Baily Balandin Balboa Baldet Ball Balmer Balzac Banachiewicz Bancroft Banting Barbier Barkla Barnard Barocius Barringer Barrow Bartels Baudelaire Bawa Bayer Beals Beaumont Becquerel Bečcář Beer Behaim Beijerinck Beketov Béla Bel'kovich Bell Bellinsgauzen (Bellingshausen) Bellot Belopol'skiy Belyaev Benedict Bergman Bergstrand Berkner Berlage Bernini Bernoulli Berosus Berzelius Bessarion Bessel Bettinus Bhabha Bianchini Biela Bilharz Billy Bingham (after Hiram Bingham, American explorer) Biot Birkeland Birkhoff Birmingham Birt Bjerknes Black Blackett Blagg Blancanus Blanchard Blanchinus Blazhko Bliss Bobillier Bobone Bode Boethius Boguslawsky Bohnenberger Bohr Bok Boltzmann Bolyai Bombelli Bondarenko Bonpland Boole Borda Borel Boris Borman Born Boscovich Bose Boss Bouguer Boussingault Bowditch Bowen Boyle Brackett Bragg Brashear Brayley Bredikhin Breislak Brenner Brewster Brianchon Bridgman Briggs Brisbane Bronk Brouwer Brown Bruce Brunner Buch Buffon (after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist) Buisson Bullialdus Bunsen Burckhardt Bürg Burnham Büsching Butlerov Buys-Ballot Byrd Byrgius C C. Herschel C. Mayer Cabannes Cabeus Cailleux Cajal Cajori Calippus Cameron Camoens Campanus Campbell Cannizzaro Cannon Cantor Capella Capuanus Cardanus Carlini Carlos Carmichael Carnot Carol Carpenter Carrel Carrillo Carrington Cartan Carver Casatus Cassegrain Cassini Catalán Catharina Cauchy Cavalerius Cavendish Caventou Cayley Cellini Celsius Censorinus Cepheus Cervantes Chacornac Chadwick Chaffee Challis Chalonge Chamberlin Champollion Chandler Chang Heng Chang-Ngo Chant Chaplygin Chapman Chappe Chappell Charles Charlier Chaucer Chauvenet Chebyshev Chekov Chenier Chernyshev Chevallier Ching-Te Chladni Chrétien Christel Cichus Clairaut Clark Clausius Clavius Cleomedes Cleostratus Clerke Coblentz Cockcroft Collins Colombo Compton Comrie Comstock Condon Condorcet Congreve Conon Cook Cooper Copernicus Cori Coriolis Corneille Couder Coulomb Courtney Cremona Crile Crocco Crommelin Crookes Crozier Crüger Ctesibius Curie Curtis Curtius Cusanus Cuvier Cyrano Cyrillus Cysatus D da Vinci Daedalus (after Daedalus) Dag Daguerre Dale D'Alembert Dalton Daly Damoiseau Daniell Danjon Dante Dario Darney D'Arrest D'Arsonval Darwin Das Daubrée Davisson Davy Dawes Dawson De Forest de Gasparis de Gerlache De La Rue De Moraes De Morgan De Roy De Sitter De Vico De Vries Debes Debus Debye Dechen Defoe Delambre Delaunay Delia Delisle Dellinger Delmotte Delporte Deluc Dembowski Democritus Demonax Denning Desargues Descartes Deseilligny Deslandres Deutsch Dewar Diana (Latin feminine name) Diderot Dionysius Diophantus Dirichlet Dobrovol'skiy Doerfel Dollond Donati Donna Donner Doppelmayer Doppler Douglass Dove Doyle Draper Drebbel Dreyer Drude Dryden Drygalski Dubyago Dufay Dugan Dumas Dunér Dunthorne Dyson Dziewulski E Eckert Eddington Edison Edith Egede Ehrlich Eichstadt Eijkman Eimmart Einstein Einthoven El Greco Elger Ellerman Ellison Elmer Elvey Emden Encke Endymion Engel'gardt (Engelhardt) Eötvös Epigenes Epimenides Eppinger Eratosthenes Erro Esclangon Esnault-Pelterie Espin Euclides Euctemon Eudoxus Euler Evans Evdokimov Evershed Ewen F Fabbroni Fabricius Fabry Fahrenheit (after Gabriel Fahrenheit) Fairouz Faraday Faustini Fauth Faye Fechner Fedorov Felix Fényi Feoktistov Fermat (after the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat.) Fermi Fernelius Fersman Fesenkov Feuillée Finsch Finsen Firdausi Firmicus Firsov Fischer Fitzgerald Fizeau Flammarion Flamsteed Fleming Florensky Focas Fontana Fontenelle Foster Foucault (after Léon Foucault) Fourier Fowler Fox Fra Mauro Fracastorius Franck Franklin Franz Fraunhofer Fredholm Freud Freundlich Fridman (Friedmann) Froelich Frost Fryxell Furnerius G G. Bond Gadomski Gagarin Galen Galilaei Galle Galois Galvani Gambart Gamow Ganskiy (Hansky) Ganswindt Garavito Gardner Gärtner Gassendi Gaston Gaudibert Gauricus Gauss Gavrilov Gay-Lussac Geber Geiger Geissler Geminus Gemma Frisius Gerard Gerasimovich Gernsback Gibbs Gilbert Gill Ginzel Gioja Giordano Bruno (after Giordano Bruno) Glaisher Glauber Glazenap Glushko Goclenius Goddard Godin Goldschmidt Golgi Golitsyn Golovin Goodacre Gould Grace Grachev Graff Grave Greaves Green Gregory Grigg Grimaldi Grimm Grissom Grotrian Grove Gruemberger Gruithuisen Guericke Guillaume Gullstrand Gum Gutenberg Guthnick Guyot Gyldén H H. G. Wells Hadley Hagecius Hagen Hahn Haidinger Hainzel Haldane Hale Hall Halley Hamilton Hanno Hansen Hansteen Harden Harding Haret Hargreaves Harkhebi Harlan Harold Harpalus Harriot Hartmann Hartwig Harvey Hase Hatanaka Hausen Hayford Hayn Healy Heaviside Hecataeus Hédervári Hedin Heine Heinrich Heinsius Heis Helberg Helicon Hell Helmert Helmholtz Henderson Hendrix Henry Henry Frères Henyey Heraclitus Hercules Herigonius Hermann Hermite Herodotus Heron Herschel Hertz Hertzsprung Hesiodus Hess Hevelius Heymans Heyrovsky Hilbert Hill Hind Hippalus Hipparchus Hippocrates Hirayama Hoffmeister Hogg Hohmann Holden Holetschek Homer Hommel Hooke Hopmann Hornsby Horrebow Horrocks Hortensius Houtermans Houzeau Hubble Huggins Hugo Humason Humboldt Hume Hussein Hutton Huxley Hyginus Hypatia (after Hypatia of Alexandria) I Ian Ibn Battuta Ibn Firnas Ibn Yunus Ibn-Rushd Icarus Ideler Idel'son Il'in Ina Ingalls Inghirami Innes Ioffe Isabel Isaev Isidorus Isis Ivan Izsak J J. Herschel Jackson Jacobi James Jansen Jansky Janssen Jarvis Jeans Jehan Jenkins Jenner Jerik Johnson Joliot Jomo José Joule Joy Jules Verne Julienne Julius Caesar (after Julius Caesar) K Kaiser Kamerlingh Onnes Kane Kant Kao Kapteyn Karima Karpinskiy Karrer Kasper Kästner Katchalsky Kathleen Kearons Keeler Kekulé Keldysh Kepínski Kepler (after Johannes Kepler) Khvol'son Kibal'chich Kidinnu Kies Kiess Kimura Kinau King Kira Kirch Kircher Kirchhoff Kirkwood Klaproth Klein Kleymenov Klute Knox-Shaw Koch Kohlschütter Kolhörster Komarov Kondratyuk König Konoplev Konstantinov Kopff Korolev Kosberg Kostinskiy Koval'skiy Kovalevskaya Kozyrev Krafft Kramarov Kramers Krasnov Krasovskiy Kreiken Krieger Krishna Krogh Krusenstern Krylov Kugler Kuiper Kulik Kundt Kunowsky Kuo Shou Ching Kurchatov L La Caille La Condamine La Pérouse Lacchini Lacroix Lade Lagalla Lagrange Lalande Lallemand Lamarck Lamb Lambert Lamé Lamèch Lamont Lampland Landau Lander Landsteiner Lane Langemak Langevin Langley Langmuir Langrenus Lansberg Larmor Lassell Laue Lauritsen Lavoisier Lawrence Le Gentil Le Monnier Le Verrier Leakey Leavitt Lebedev Lebedinskiy Lebesgue Lee Leeuwenhoek Legendre Lehmann Leibniz Lemaître Lents (Lenz) Leonov Lepaute Letronne Leucippus Leuschner Levi-Civita Lewis Lexell Ley (after Willy Ley, German science writer) Li Po Licetus Lichtenberg Lick Liebig Lilius Linda Lindbergh Lindblad Lindenau Lindsay Linné Liouville Lippershey Lippmann Lipskiy Litke (Lütke) Littrow Lobachevskiy Lockyer Lodygin Loewy Lohrmann Lohse Lomonosov Longfellow Longomontanus Lorca Lorentz Louise Louville Love Lovelace Lovell Lowell Lubbock Lubiniezky Lucian Lucretius Ludwig Lundmark Luther Lyapunov Lyell Lyman Lyot M Mach Maclaurin Maclear MacMillan Macrobius Mädler Maestlin Magelhaens Maginus Main Mairan Maksutov Malapert Mallet Malyy Mandel'shtam Manilius Mann Manners Manuel Manzinus Maraldi Marci Marco Polo (after Marco Polo) Marconi Marinus Mariotte Marius Markov Marth Mary Maskelyne Mason Maunder Maupertuis Maurolycus Maury Mavis Maxwell McAdie McAuliffe McClure McDonald McKellar McLaughlin McMath McNair McNally Mechnikov Mee Mees Meggers Meitner Melissa Mendel Mendeleev Menelaus Menzel Mercator Mercurius Merrill Mersenius Meshcherskiy Messala Messier Metius Meton Mezentsev Michael Michelson Milankovič Milichius Miller Millikan Mills Milne Milton Mineur Minkowski Minnaert Mitchell Mitra Möbius Mohorovičić Moigno Moiseev Moissan Moltke Monge Monira Montaigne Montanari Montesquieu Montgolfier Moore Moretus Morley Morozov Morse Moseley Mösting Mouchez Moulton Müller Murakami Murchison Mutus N Nagaoka Nansen Naonobu Nasireddin Nasmyth Nassau Natasha Naumann Neander Nearch Necho Neison Neper Nernst Neujmin Neumayer Newcomb Newton (after Isaac Newton) Nicholson Nicolai Nicollet Nielsen Niepce Nijland Nikolaev Nishina Nobel Nobile Nobili Nöggerath Nonius Norman Nöther (Noether) Novalis Numerov Nunn Nušl O Oberth Obruchev O'Day Oenopides Oersted Ohm Oken Olbers Olcott Olivier Omar Khayyam Onizuka Opelt Oppenheimer Oppolzer Oresme Orlov Orontius Osama Osiris Osman Ostwald P Palisa Palitzsch Pallas Palmieri Paneth Pannekoek Papaleksi Paracelsus Paraskevopoulos (named after John S. Paraskevópoulos, Greek-American astronomer) Parenago Parkhurst Parrot Parry Parsons Pascal Paschen Pasteur Patricia Patsaev Pauli Pavlov Pawsey Peary Pease Peek Peirce Peirescius Pentland Perel'man Perepelkin Perkin Perrine Petavius Petermann Peters Petit Petrie Petropavlovskiy Petrov Pettit Petzval Phillips Philolaus Phocylides Piazzi Piazzi Smyth Picard Piccolomini Pickering Pictet Pikel'ner Pilâtre Pingré Pirandello Pirquet Pitatus Pitiscus Pizzetti Plana Planck Planté Plaskett Plato Playfair Plinius Plummer Plutarch Poczobutt Pogson Poincaré Poinsot Poisson Polybius Polzunov Pomortsev Poncelet Pons Pontanus Pontécoulant Pope Popov Porter Posidonius Poynting Prager Prandtl Priestley Prinz Priscilla Proclus Proctor Protagoras Ptolemaeus Puiseux Pupin Purbach Purkynĕ Pythagoras Pytheas Q Quetelet R Rabbi Levi Racah Racine Raimond Raman Ramsay Ramsden Rankine Raspletin Ravi Rayet Rayleigh Razumov Réaumur Recht Regiomontanus Regnault Reichenbach Reimarus Reiner Reinhold Repsold Resnik Respighi Rhaeticus Rheita Riccioli Riccius Ricco Richards Richardson Riedel (after Klaus Riedel, German rocket pioneer) Riemann Ritchey Rittenhouse Ritter Ritz Robert Roberts Robertson Robinson Rocca Rocco Roche Romeo Römer Röntgen Rosa Rosenberger Ross Rosse Rosseland Rost Rothmann Rowland Rozhdestvenskiy Rumford Runge Russell Ruth Rutherford Rutherfurd Rydberg (after Johannes Rydberg) Rynin S Sabatier Sabine Sacrobosco Saenger Šafařík Saha Samir Sampson Sanford Santbech Santos-Dumont Sappho Sarabhai Sarton Sasserides Saunder Saussure Scaliger Schaeberle Scheele Scheiner Schiaparelli Schickard Schiller Schjellerup Schlesinger Schliemann Schlüter Schmidt Schneller Schomberger Schönfeld Schorr Schrödinger Schröter Schubert Schumacher Schuster Schwabe Schwarzschild Scobee Scoresby Scott Seares Secchi Sechenov Seeliger Segers Segner Seidel Seleucus Seneca (named for Seneca the Younger) Seyfert Shackleton Shahinaz Shaler Shapley Sharonov Sharp Shatalov Shayn Sheepshanks Shekhov (Chekhov) Sherrington Shi Shen Shirakatsi Shoemaker Short Shternberg (Sternberg) Shuckburgh Shuleykin Siedentopf Sierpinski Sikorsky Silberschlag Simpelius Sinas Sirsalis Sisakyan Sita Sklodowska Slipher Slocum Smith Smithson Smoluchowski Snellius Sniadecki Soddy Somerville Sommerfeld Sömmering Sophocles Soraya Sosigenes South Spallanzani Spencer Spörer Spurr St Stadius Stark Stearns Stebbins Stefan Stein Steinheil Steklov Stella Steno Sternfeld Stetson Stevinus Stewart Stiborius Stöfler Stokes Stoletov Stoney Störmer Strabo Stratton Street Strömgren Struve Subbotin Suess Sulpicius Gallus Sumner Sundman Sung-Mei (Chinese name) Susan (English feminine name) Sverdrup Swann Swasey Swift Sylvester (after James J. Sylvester) Szilard T T. Mayer Tacchini Tacitus Tacquet Taizo Talbot Tamm Tannerus Taruntius Tasso Taylor Tebbutt Teisserenc Tempel Ten Bruggencate Tereshkova Tesla Thales Theaetetus Thebit Theiler Theon Junior Theon Senior Theophilus Theophrastus Thiel Thiessen Thomson Tikhomirov Tikhov Tiling Timaeus Timiryazev Timocharis Tiselius Tisserand Titius Titov Tolansky Tolstoy Torricelli Toscanelli Townley Tralles Triesnecker Trouvelot Trumpler Tsander (Zander) Tseraskiy (Ceraski) Tsinger (Zinger) Tsiolkovskiy Tsu Chung-Chi Tucker Turner Tycho Tyndall U Ukert Ulugh Beigh Undest Urey V Väisälä Valier (after Max Valier, German rocket pioneer) van Albada Van BiesBroeck Van de Graaff Van den Bergh van den Bos Van der Waals Van Gent Van Maanen van Rhijn Van Vleck Van Wijk van't Hoff Vasco da Gama Vashakidze Vavilov Vega Vendelinus Vening Meinesz Ventris Vera Vergil Vernadskiy Verne Vertregt Very Vesalius Vestine Vetchinkin Vieta Vil'ev Vinogradov Virchow Virtanen Vitello Vitruvius Viviani Vlacq Vogel Volkov Volta Voltaire Volterra von Behring von Békésy von Braun (after Wenher von Braun, German rocket pioneer) Von der Pahlen Von Kármán Von Neumann Von Zeipel Voskresenskiy W W. 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