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| 348 | May | Named possibly in honor of the contemporal German writer Karl May (1842–1912), well-known for his ma |
| 537 | Pauly | Named in memory of Max Pauly (1849–1917) of the Jena Carl Zeiss optical works. The genial Pauly was |
| 734 | Benda | Named in honor of Anna Benda, second wife of the discoverer, which he married in 1902. (M. G. Firnei |
| 775 | Lumiere | Named in honor of Auguste Lumière (1862–1954) and his brother Louis Lumière (1864–1948), noted Frenc |
| 782 | Montefiore | Probably named in honor of the wife of Alphonse Mayer Rothschild (1878–1942), the second son of Baro |
| 876 | Scott | This name had been attributed erroneously to the British polar explorer Robert Fulcon Scott in earli |
| 903 | Nealley | Named in honor of the New York amateur astronomer Nealley who supported the edition of the Wolf-Pali |
| 941 | Murray | Named in honor of the family of the American professor Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) who helped Austria |
| 955 | Alstede | Named in honor of Mrs. Lina Alstede Reinmuth, wife of the discoverer. (H 92) Mrs. Reinmuth is also h |
| 992 | Swasey | Named in honor of the optician Dr. Swasey of the Warner and Swasey Works who built the 82-inch refle |
| 1005 | Arago | Named in honor of Françcois Arago (1786–1853), since 1843 director of the Paris Observatory, life-se |
| 1024 | Hale | Named in honor of George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), founder and first director of Yerkes and Mt. Wilso |
| 1167 | Dubiago | This planet is named in honor of the late Prof. Alexander D. Dubiago (1903–1959), an eminent astrono |
| 1211 | Bressole | Named in honor of a nephew of the discoverer. (H 112) |
| 1215 | Boyer | Named in honor of Louis Boyer, astronomer at the Algiers Observatory and later at the Nice Observato |
| 1255 | Schilowa | Named in honor of M. W. Schilowa (1870–1934), astronomer and orbit computer at the Pulkovo Observato |
| 1257 | Mora | Named in honor of the Hungarian astronomer Károly Móra (1899–1938). (H 116; I. van Houten-Groeneveld |
| 1365 | Henyey | Named in honor of Dr. Louis G. Henyey {1910–1970}, late professor of astronomy at the University of |
| 1413 | Roucarie | Named in honor of the mother of the discoverer. (H 128) |
| 1441 | Bolyai | Name proposed by the discoverer in honor of Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai (1775–1856), a Hungarian astronom |
| 1476 | Cox | Named in honor of Jacques Cox (1898–1972), professor of astronomy at the University of Brussels. He |
| 1487 | Boda | Named in honor of the German astronomer Karl Boda {1889–1942} who at the Frankfurt Planeten-Institut |
| 1511 | Dalera | Named in honor of Paul Daléra, a friend of the discoverer. (H 135) |
| 1515 | Perrotin | Named in memory of Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845–1904), the first director of the Nice Observ |
| 1516 | Henry | Named in memory of the brothers Paul Pierre Henry (1848–1905) and Prosper Matthieu Henry (1849–1903) |
| 1538 | Detre | Named in memory of Laszlo Detre (1906-1974), Hungarian astronomer well known for his work on variabl |
| 1543 | Bourgeois | Named in honor of Paul E.-E. Bourgeois {1898–1974}, late director of the Royal Observatory of Belgiu |
| 1546 | Izsak | Named in memory of Imre Izsak (1929-1965), Hungarian-born astronomer and celestial mechanician, who |
| 1553 | Bauersfelda | This planet is named in honor of Prof. Dr.Ing. W. Bauersfeld {1879–1959} on the occasion of his 75th |
| 1561 | Fricke | Named in honor of Walter Ernst Fricke {1915–1988}, Director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in |
| 1562 | Gondolatsch | Named in honor of Friedrich Gondolatsch {1904– }, astronomer at the Heidelberg Rechen-Institut since |
| 1565 | Lemaitre | Named in honor of Canon Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics |
| 1571 | Cesco | Named in memory of Ronaldo P. Cesco, a former director of the La Plata Observatory, an outstanding m |
| 1574 | Meyer | Named in honor of M. Georges Meyer {1894– }, director of the Algiers Observatory. (M 837) |
| 1576 | Fabiola | This planet is named in honor of H. M. Fabiola {1928– }, Queen of the Belgians. (M 2116) |
| 1577 | Reiss | Named in honor of Guy Reiss (1904-1964), astronomer at the Algiers Observatory and later at Nice, di |
| 1579 | Herrick | Named in honor of Samuel Herrick (1911–1974), well-known for his many contributions to celestial mec |
| 1586 | Thiele | Named in memory of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), sometime director of the Copenhagen Observat |
| 1587 | Kahrstedt | Named in memory of Albrecht Kahrstedt (1897–1971), on the staff of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institu |
| 1591 | Baize | This planet is named in honor of Dr. Paul Baize {1901–1995} of Paris who {was} a practicing physicia |
| 1594 | Danjon | Named in honor of Prof. André Danjon {1890–1967}, Director of the Paris Observatory, and former pres |
| 1596 | Itzigsohn | Named by the La Plata Observatory in memory of Miguel Itzigsohn, some time professor of spherical an |
| 1597 | Laugier | Named in memory of Margueritte Laugier (1896–1976), astronomer at the Nice Observatory and discovere |
| 1598 | Paloque | Named in honor of E. Paloque, Director of the Observatory of Toulouse. (M 1221) Name assigned by the |
| 1601 | Patry | Named in honor of André Patry {1902–1960}, astronomer at the Nice Observatory, especially distinguis |
| 1604 | Tombaugh | Named by the Lowell Observatory for Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, on the occasion of a |
| 1608 | Munoz | Named in memory of F. A. Munoz, an assistant in the department of extra-meridian astronomy at the La |
| 1611 | Beyer | This planet is named by the discoverer in honor of Dr. h.c. Max Beyer {1894–1982}, astronomer at the |
| 1613 | Smiley | Named in honor of Charles Hugh Smiley {1903–1977}, interested mainly in orbit computations by Leusch |
| 1615 | Bardwell | Named in honor of Conrad M. Bardwell {1926– }, research associate in the Minor Planet Center at the |
| 1616 | Filipoff | Named in memory of Lionel Filipoff (1893–1940), astronomer at the Algiers Observatory and later at P |
| 1624 | Rabe | Named in memory of Eugene Rabe (1911–1974), on the staff of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut from |
| 1628 | Strobel | Named in honor of Willi Strobel {1909–1988}, at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut since 1938 and au |
| 1630 | Milet | Named in honor of Bernard Milet, astronomer at the Nice Observatory who conducts a large program of |
| 1635 | Bohrmann | Named in honor of Alfred Bohrmann (1904–2000), at the Königstuhl Observatory from 1924 to 1969. Well |
| 1636 | Porter | Named for the U.S. astronomer Jermain Gildersleeve Porter (1852–1933), Director of the Cincinnati Ob |
| 1637 | Swings | Named in honor of Pol Swings {1906–1983}, president of the I.A.U. during 1964–1967. He has contribut |
| 1639 | Bower | Named in honor of Ernest Clare Bower who worked intensively on the Laplacian method of orbit computa |
| 1642 | Hill | Named in memory of George William Hill (1838–1914), American celestial mechanician whose works inclu |
| 1645 | Waterfield | Named in honor of Reginald Lawson Waterfield {1900–1986}, for many years a hemotologist at Guy’s Hos |
| 1649 | Fabre | Named in honor of Hervé Fabre {1905–1995}, astronomer at the Nice Observatory and author of numerous |
| 1650 | Heckmann | Named in honor of Otto Heckmann {1901–1983}, Director of the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory from 1941 |
| 1651 | Behrens | Named in memory of Johann Gerhard Behrens (1889-1978), pastor at Detern, well known for his orbit co |
| 1654 | Bojeva | This planet is named in honor of Dr. Nina Fedorovna Bojeva (1890–1956) who was a valuable member of |
| 1657 | Roemera | Named by the discoverer in honor of Dr. Elizabeth Roemer {1929– }, U.S. Naval Observatory, in apprec |
| 1658 | Innes | Named in honor of R. T. A. nnes (1861–1933), first Director of the Republic Observatory (originally |
| 1660 | Wood | Named in honor of H. E. Wood (1881–1946), second Director of the Republic (then Union) Observatory ( |
| 1662 | Hoffmann | Named for Irmtraud Hoffmann who is the daughter-in-law of the discoverer. (M 2901) |
| 1663 | van den Bos | Named in honor of W. H. van den Bos {1896–1974}, Director of the Republic (then Union) Observatory f |
| 1666 | van Gent | This planet is named in honor of the late Dr. H. van Gent {1900–1947}, who was a Leiden observer in |
| 1667 | Pels | This planet is named in honor of the late Mr. G. Pels {1893–1966}, a life long member of the scienti |
| 1670 | Minnaert | Named in honor of the late Prof. Marcel G. J. Minnaert {1893–1970}, who was Director of the Utrecht |
| 1673 | van Houten | Named by the discoverer in honor of Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920–2002), who is an astronomer a |
| 1674 | Groeneveld | Named by the discoverer in honor of I. van Houten-Groeneveld, who is an astronomer at the Leiden Obs |
| 1681 | Steinmetz | Named in memory of Julius Steinmetz (1893-1965), pastor at Gerolfingen; orbit computer. Name propos |
| 1688 | Wilkens | Named in memory of Alexander Wilkens, researcher in many branches of astronomy, most notably celesti |
| 1690 | Mayrhofer | Named in honor of Karl Mayrhofer, Austrian astronomer, currently living at Ried im Innkreis, well kn |
| 1691 | Oort | Named in honor of Jan Hendrik Oort {1900–1992}, director of the Leiden Observatory 1945–1970, former |
| 1692 | Subbotina | This planet is named in honor of the late Prof. Mikhail F. Subbotin (1893–1966) who was Director of |
| 1694 | Kaiser | Named in honor of the late Prof. Frederick Kaiser {1808–1872}, who was Director of the Leiden Observ |
| 1703 | Barry | Named for Roger Barry (1752–1813), who became an astronomer at the Mannheim Observatory in 1788. The |
| 1704 | Wachmann | Named in honor of Arno Arthur Wachmann {1902–1990}, an astronomer at Hamburg-Bergedorf since 1927. H |
| 1706 | Dieckvoss | Named in honor of Wilhelm Dieckvoss {1908–1982}, Hamburg-Bergedorf astronomer since 1935 who has wor |
| 1708 | Polit | Named in memory of Isidre Polit (1880-1958), second director of the astronomical section of the Fabr |
| 1710 | Gothard | Named in memory of Jeno Gothard (1857-1909), a Hungarian astronomer who discovered the central star |
| 1713 | Bancilhon | Named in honor of Madame Alfred Schmitt, née Odette Bancilhon, astronomer at the Algiers and later t |
| 1721 | Wells | Named for Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University for 25 years from 1937 to 1962. Following |
| 1722 | Goffin | Named in honor of the Belgian amateur astronomer Edwin Goffin, who has made extensive computations i |
| 1726 | Hoffmeister | Named in memory of Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), founder and later director of the Sonneberg {see pl |
| 1728 | Goethe Link | Named in honor of Dr. Goethe Link, eminent surgeon of Indianapolis, Indiana, enthusiastic amateur as |
| 1731 | Smuts | Field-marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts {1870–1950}, a distinguished South African under whom the discove |
| 1738 | Oosterhoff | Named in memory of P. Th. Oosterhoff (1904–1978), professor of astronomy at Leiden University from 1 |
| 1739 | Meyermann | Named in memory of Bruno Meyermann (1876–1963), who spent most of his life as a classical astronomer |
| 1741 | Giclas | Named for Henry L. Giclas {1910– }, longtime staff member of the Lowell Observatory, who has had the |
| 1742 | Schaifers | Named in honor of Karl Schaifers {1921– }, astronomer on the Heidelberg-Königstuhl staff, editor of |
| 1743 | Schmidt | Named in honor of Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), the inventor of the Schmidt telescope. (M 3086) This |
| 1747 | Wright | Named in memory of William H. Wright (1871–1959), a pioneer in astrophysics who was on the Lick Obse |
| 1750 | Eckert | Named in memory of Wallace J. Eckert (1902–1971), Director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office from |
| 1751 | Herget | Named in honor of Paul Herget {1908–1981}, Director of the Cincinnati Observatory and distinguished |
| 1752 | van Herk | Named in honor of G. van Herk, former staff member of the Leiden Observatory and a well-known author |
| 1755 | Lorbach | Named in honor of Anne Lorbach Herget, assistant at the Cincinnati Observatory since 1962 and wife o |
| 1756 | Giacobini | Named in memory of Michel Giacobini (1873–1938), astronomer at the Nice Observatory who discovered 1 |
| 1759 | Kienle | Named in memory of Hans Kienle (1895–1975), an astrophysicist, who served as Director of several Ger |
| 1761 | Edmondson | Named in honor of Prof. Frank K. Edmondson {1912– }, chairman of the Astronomy Department of Indiana |
| 1762 | Russell | Named in honor of Henry Norris Russell {1877–1957}, one of the world’s most distinguished astronomer |
| 1763 | Williams | Named in honor of K. P. Williams, professor of mathematics at Indiana University (1909–58). He was k |
| 1764 | Cogshall | Named in honor of W. A. Cogshall, professor of astronomy at Indiana University (1900–44). He was kno |
| 1765 | Wrubel | Named in honor of Marshal H. Wrubel, faculty member at Indiana University (1950–68) and university p |
| 1766 | Slipher | Named in honor of Vesto Melvin Slipher {1876–1969} and E. C. Slipher {1883–1964}, graduates of India |
| 1767 | Lampland | Named in honor of C. O. Lampland {1873–1951}, a graduate of Indiana University in 1902. His best kno |
| 1770 | Schlesinger | Named in memory of Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943), Director of the Allegheny Observatory from 1905 to |
| 1777 | Gehrels | Named in honor of Tom Gehrels {1925– }, staff member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at Tucson |
| 1778 | Alfven | Named in honor of Nobel prize winner Hannes Alfvén {1908–1995} {1970, together with L. E. N. Néel}, |
| 1780 | Kippes | This name is bestowed by the Minor Planet Center in honor of Pastor Otto Kippes {1905–1994}, an inst |
| 1781 | Van Biesbroeck | Named for Georges Van Biesbroeck {1880–1974} in recognition of, and appreciation for, many years of |
| 1782 | Schneller | Named in memory of Heribert Schneller (1901–1967), a prolific observer of variable stars, who worked |
| 1783 | Albitskij | Named in memory of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitskij (1891-1952), head of the Simeis department of t |
| 1785 | Wurm | Named in memory of Karl Wurm (1899–1975), who is well-known for his work on interstellar matter and |
| 1788 | Kiess | Named for Carl C. Kiess, a graduate of Indiana University (AB 1910, Honorary D.Sc. 1963). Dr. Kiess |
| 1794 | Finsen | Named in honor of W. S. Finsen {1905–1979}, Director of the Republic Observatory from 1957 to 1965. |
| 1795 | Woltjer | Named in honor of Dr. Jan J. Woltjer Jr. {1891–1946}, who was assistant professor at the Leiden Obse |
| 1797 | Schaumasse | Named in memory of Alexandre Schaumasse (1882–1958), astronomer at the Nice Observatory who discover |
| 1798 | Watts | Named for Chester B. Watts {1889–1971}, a graduate of Indiana University (AB 1915, Honorary D.Sc. 19 |
| 1799 | Koussevitzky | Named in honor of Serge Koussevitzky, distinguished conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra durin |
| 1800 | Aguilar | Named in memory of Eng. Felix Aguilar {1884–1943}, former director of the La Plata Observatory, foun |
| 1811 | Bruwer | Named in honor of Jacobus Albertus Bruwer {1915– }, former staff member of the South African Astrono |
| 1820 | Lohmann | Named in honor of Werner Lohmann {1911–1983}, astronomer at Heidelberg, who worked at the Königstuhl |
| 1822 | Waterman | Named to honor the memory of Alan T. Waterman {1892–1967}, first director of the U.S. National Scien |
| 1823 | Gliese | Named in honor of Wilhelm Gliese {1915–1993}, an astronomer at the Rechen-Institut since 1943, who i |
| 1824 | Haworth | Named in honor of Leland J. Haworth, a graduate of Indiana University and second director of the Nat |
| 1825 | Klare | Named in honor of Gerhard Klare {1932– }, an observing astronomer at Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observato |
| 1826 | Miller | Named in honor of John A. Miller, founder of the Astronomy Department at Indiana University and firs |
| 1827 | Atkinson | Named in honor of Robert d’Escourt Atkinson {1898–1982}, noted for his contributions to fundamental |
| 1829 | Dawson | Named in memory of Bernhard H. Dawson (1890–1960), a U.S.-born astronomer who worked at the La Plata |
| 1834 | Palach | Named in memory of the Czech student of philosophy Jan Palach, who burned himself to death on 1969 J |
| 1840 | Hus | Named in honor of Jan Hus (1372–1415), Czech religious and linguistic reformer, rector of Charles Un |
| 1841 | Masaryk | Named in honor of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850–1937), Czechoslovak statesman and philosopher, known for h |
| 1847 | Stobbe | Named in honor of Joachim Otto Stobbe (1900–1943), astronomer at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory d |
| 1848 | Delvaux | Named in honor of the sister-in-law of Uccle astronomer G. Roland. (M 6832) |
| 1849 | Kresak | Named in honor of Luboš Kresák {1927–1994}, astronomer at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratisla |
| 1851 | Lacroute | Named in honor of Pierre Lacroute {1906–1993}, well-known French astrometrist who made an independen |
| 1852 | Carpenter | Named in memory of Edwin F. Carpenter (1898-1963), second director of the Steward Observatory and a |
| 1853 | McElroy | Named in honor of William David McElroy, distinguished biologist and biochemist, chairman of the bio |
| 1875 | Neruda | Named in memory of Jan Neruda (1834–1891), Czech lyric poet, novelist and journalist. He published s |
| 1880 | McCrosky | Named in honor of Richard E. McCrosky {1924– }, in appreciation of his role in the recovery of (1862 |
| 1886 | Lowell | Named in honor of Percival Lowell {1855–1916}, the founder, director and endower of Lowell Observato |
| 1894 | Haffner | Named in honor of the German astronomer Hans Haffner (1912–1977), who worked in Göttingen from 1941 |
| 1895 | Larink | Named in honor of the German astronomer Johannes Larink (1893–1988), who worked at the Hamburg Obser |
| 1896 | Beer | Named in honor of the astronomer Arthur Beer {1900–1980}, born in Bohemia in 1900, who worked at the |
| 1897 | Hind | Named in honor of John Russell Hind (1823–1895), discoverer of (7) Iris, (8) Flora and eight other m |
| 1898 | Cowell | Named in honor of Philip Herbert Cowell (1870–1949), superintendent of the British Nautical Almanac |
| 1899 | Crommelin | Named in honor of Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865–1939), who worked and wrote extensivel |
| 1906 | Naef | Named in memory of Robert A. Naef (1907–1975) of Zurich, an ardent amateur astronomer, who since 194 |
| 1913 | Sekanina | Named in honor of Zdenek Sekanina {1936– }, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astr |
| 1919 | Clemence | Named in memory of Gerald M. Clemence (1908–1974), Director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office from |
| 1920 | Sarmiento | Named for Domingo F. Sarmiento, president of Argentina between 1868 and 1874 who promoted education, |
| 1925 | Franklin-Adams | Named in memory of John Franklin-Adams (1843–1912), the British amateur astronomer who acquired and |
| 1926 | Demiddelaer | Named in honor of the family of Mireille Demiddelaer, granddaughter of the discoverer. (M 8402) |
| 1931 | Capek | Named in memory of Karel Čapek (1890–1938), Czech dramatist and novelist, best known for his allegor |
| 1932 | Jansky | Named for Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), the father of radio astronomy, the research engineer at Bel |
| 1934 | Jeffers | Named in honor of Hamilton M. Jeffers {1893–1976}, an astronomer on the staff of the Lick Observator |
| 1945 | Wesselink | Named in honor of A. J. Wesselink {1909–1995}, astronomer at the Leiden, Radcliffe and Yale Observat |
| 1946 | Walraven | Named in honor of Th. Walraven {1916– }, retired professor of astronomy at the University of Leiden |
| 1950 | Wempe | Named in honor of Johann Wempe {1906–1980}, astronomer at the Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam s |
| 1951 | Lick | Named in honor of James Lick (1796–1876) the founder of the Lick Observatory of the University of Ca |
| 1952 | Hesburgh | Named in honor of the Very Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of the University of Not |
| 1954 | Kukarkin | Named in memory of Boris Vasil'evich Kukarkin (1909-1977), professor of stellar astronomy and astrom |
| 1955 | McMath | Named in memory of Robert R. McMath (1891-1962), astronomer, engineer and businessman. Co-donor of |
| 1960 | Guisan | Named in memory of Henri Guisan (1874–1960), the general of the Swiss army from 1939 to 1945. His in |
| 1961 | Dufour | Named in memory of Henri Dufour (1787–1875), citizen of Geneva, who as a general in 1847 swiftly and |
| 1962 | Dunant | Named in memory of Henri Dunant (1828–1910), citizen of Geneva, and founder of the Red Cross. (M 415 |
| 1964 | Luyten | Named in honor of Willem Jacob Luyten, emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Minnesot |
| 1965 | van de Kamp | Named in honor of Peter van de Kamp, director of Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972, well known |
| 1967 | Menzel | Named in honor of Donald Howard Menzel (1901–1976), Harvard astronomer since 1932 and director of th |
| 1968 | Mehltretter | Named in honor of Johannes Peter Mehltretter {1934–1982}, who became a solar astronomer at the Fraun |
| 1982 | Cline | Named to honor the memory of a friend, Edwin Lee Cline. Cline was a distinguished inventor in the au |
| 1983 | Bok | Named for Bart J. {1906–1983} and Priscilla F. Bok {1896–1975}. This is the first minor planet disco |
| 1985 | Hopmann | Named in memory of Josef Hopmann (1890–1975), the former director of the Universitäts-Sternwarte in |
| 1986 | Plaut | Named in honor of Lukas Plaut (1910–1984), Dutch astronomer, who worked at the Leiden Observatory fr |
| 1987 | Kaplan | Named in memory of Samuil Aronovich Kaplan (1921-1978), head of the astrophysics department at the L |
| 1990 | Pilcher | Named in honor of Frederick Pilcher, associate professor of physics at Illinois College, Jacksonvill |
| 1994 | Shane | Named in honor of C. D. Shane, the second president of AURA (1958-1962). He played a major role in t |
| 1996 | Adams | Named in memory of John Couch Adams (1819–1892), the British mathematical astronomer who predicted t |
| 1997 | Leverrier | Named in memory of Urbain Joseph Le Verrier (1811–1877), the French mathematical astronomer who pred |
| 2007 | McCuskey | Named in memory of Sidney W. McCuskey (1907–1979), director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory dur |
| 2016 | Heinemann | Named in memory of Karl Heinemann (1898–1970), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut from |
| 2017 | Wesson | Named in honor of Mary Joan Wesson Bardwell, wife of Conrad M. Bardwell {see planet (1615)}. The la |
| 2019 | van Albada | Named in memory of G. B. van Albada (1911–1972), Dutch astronomer, director of the Bosscha Observato |
| 2021 | Poincare | Named in honor of Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), distinguished French mathematician and celestial mecha |
| 2024 | McLaughlin | Named in memory of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin (1901–1965), astronomical spectroscopist and geologist a |
| 2026 | Cottrell | Named in memory of Frederick Gardner Cottrell in the centennial year of his birth. Cottrell organize |
| 2034 | Bernoulli | Named for the great dynasty of mathematicians of Basel, notably Jakob (1654-1705), founder of the ca |
| 2035 | Stearns | Named in memory of Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972), Fisk professor of astronomy at Wesleyan University |
| 2040 | Chalonge | Named in honor of Daniel Chalonge (1895–1977), astronome titulaire at the Paris Observatory, a co-fo |
| 2043 | Ortutay | Named in memory of Gyula Ortutay, a professor of ethnography and a Hungarian cultural leader who pat |
| 2050 | Francis | Named by the discoverer in honor of her parents, Fred and Kay Francis. (M 4359) |
| 2058 | Roka | Named in memory of Gedeon Roka, a well-known popularizer of astronomy in Hungary for three decades. |
| 2064 | Thomsen | Named in memory of Ivan Leslie Thomsen (1910–1969), director of the Carter Observatory, Wellington, |
| 2065 | Spicer | Named in memory of Edward H. Spicer (1906–1983), professor of anthropology at the University of Ariz |
| 2070 | Humason | Named in memory of Milton L. Humason (1891–1972), who provided all the larger redshifts in the Hubbl |
| 2079 | Jacchia | Named in honor of Luigi Giuseppe Jacchia {1911–1996}, research associate at the Harvard College Obse |
| 2086 | Newell | Named in memory of Homer E. Newell (1915–1983), one of the most important organizers of the U.S. spa |
| 2097 | Galle | Named in memory of Johann Gottfried Galle (1812–1910), famous German astronomer who in 1846 discover |
| 2106 | Hugo | Named for the celebrated French writer Victor Hugo (1802–1885). (M 6833) Name proposed by J. Meeus. |
| 2109 | Dhotel | Named in honor of André d’Hotel, recipient of the 1974 “Grand Prix de Littérature de l’Académie Fran |
| 2119 | Schwall | Named in memory of August Schwall (1877-1947), mechanician at the Heidelberg-Konigstuhl Observatory |
| 2124 | Nissen | Named in memory of Juan Jose Nissen (1901-1978), first director of the Felix Aguilar Observatory, pr |
| 2128 | Wetherill | Named in honor of George W. Wetherill {1925– }, director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, |
| 2131 | Mayall | Named in honor of Nicholas U. Mayall, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory during 1960-197 |
| 2145 | Blaauw | Named by the discoverer in honor of Adriaan Blaauw {1914– }, director of ESO (1970–74), president of |
| 2147 | Kharadze | Named by the discoverer in honor of Academician Evgenij Kirillovich Kharadze {1907– }, founder and d |
| 2151 | Hadwiger | Named in memory of Hugo Hadwiger (1908–1981), for more than 40 years professor of mathematics at the |
| 2154 | Underhill | Named in honor of Anne B. Underhill, a well-known astrophysicist and an expert in the field of the s |
| 2157 | Ashbrook | Named in honor of Joseph Ashbrook, Editor of “Sky and Telescope”, co-discoverer of periodic comet As |
| 2158 | Tietjen | Named in memory of Friedrich Tietjen (1832–1895), professor of astronomy at Berlin University and di |
| 2160 | Spitzer | Named in honor of Lyman Spitzer Jr. {1914–1997}, director of the Princeton University Observatory fr |
| 2161 | Grissom | Named in memory of Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom (1926-1967), one of the seven Mercury astronauts. On 196 |
| 2165 | Young | Named in memory of Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908), known affectionately as “Twinkle” Young by th |
| 2166 | Handahl | Named by D. W. E. Green, who found the identifications for this planet, in honor of his mother, Viol |
| 2168 | Swope | Named in memory of Henrietta Hill Swope (1902–1980), best known for her work in establishing distanc |
| 2177 | Oliver | Named in honor of Bernard M. Oliver {1916–1995}, retired Vice President for Research and Development |
| 2179 | Platzeck | Named in honor of Ricardo Pablo Platzeck, director of the Córdoba Observatory; the Córdoba Institute |
| 2181 | Fogelin | Named in honor of Eric S. Fogelin, an assistant at the Minor Planet Center during 1979-1980 who has |
| 2182 | Semirot | Named in memory of Pierre Sémirot (1907–1972), who joined the staff of the Bordeaux Observatory in 1 |
| 2193 | Jackson | Named in honor of Cyril Jackson, whose 67 discoveries of numbered minor planets constitute a record |
| 2195 | Tengstrom | Named in honor of Erik Tengström, emeritus professor at the University of Uppsala, on the occasion o |
| 2196 | Ellicott | Named in memory of Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867–1962), American astronomer and founder in 1901 of |
| 2198 | Ceplecha | Named in honor of the Czechoslovak astronomer Zdenek Ceplecha, well known for his work on meteors. |
| 2203 | van Rhijn | Named in memory of Pieter J. van Rhijn (1886–1960), Dutch astronomer, former director of the Kapteyn |
| 2213 | Meeus | Named in honor of the Belgian amateur astronomer and professional meteorologist Jean Meeus, among wh |
| 2219 | Mannucci | Named in memory of Edgardo Mannucci, outstanding precision mechanic, whose work at the Felix Aguilar |
| 2220 | Hicks | Named in honor of William B. Hicks, alumnus of the California Institute of Technology, distinguished |
| 2221 | Chilton | Named in honor of Jean Chilton McCrosky, wife of Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Richard E. McCrosky. |
| 2231 | Durrell | Named in honor of the British writer Lawrence Durrell, author of the Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Ba |
| 2234 | Schmadel | Named in honor of Lutz D. Schmadel, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, computer of orbits and ephemerid |
| 2235 | Vittore | Named in honor of the Osservatorio S. Vittore, Bologna, where this object was rediscovered in 1979. |
| 2244 | Tesla | Named in memory of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), the famous Yugoslav-born physicist well known for his n |
| 2261 | Keeler | Named in memory of James Edward Keeler (1857–1900), pioneer American astrophysicist and second direc |
| 2267 | Agassiz | Named in memory of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born naturalist, later a professor |
| 2274 | Ehrsson | Named in honor of a friend of the discoverer. |
| 2276 | Warck | Named in honor of the family of Evelyne (née Delporte) Warck, granddaughter of the discoverer. (M 84 |
| 2277 | Moreau | Named in memory of Fernand Moreau (1888–1979), a long-time colleague of the discoverer at the Uccle |
| 2278 | Gotz | Named in memory of Paul Götz, first assistant of Max Wolf {see planets (827) and (1217)} at the He |
| 2281 | Biela | Named in memory of Wilhelm von Biela (1782–1850), Austrian military officer and astronomer, who disc |
| 2285 | Ron Helin | Named in honor of Ronald P. Helin, husband of Eleanor F. Helin. His never-ending friendship and enc |
| 2289 | McMillan | Named in honor of Robert S. McMillan, astronomer at the University of Arizona. McMillan heads the ra |
| 2290 | Helffrich | Named in memory of J{oseph} Helffrich {1890–1971}, on the staff of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observa |
| 2300 | Stebbins | Named in memory of Joel Stebbins (1878–1966), who pioneered the development of photoelectric methods |
| 2301 | Whitford | Named in honor of Albert E. Whitford {1905–2002}, director of the Washburn Observatory (1945–1958), |
| 2305 | King | Named in memory of Martin Luther King (1929-1968), the American civil rights leader who worked to br |
| 2308 | Schilt | Named in honor of Jan Schilt, Columbia University astronomer who has made significant contributions |
| 2314 | Field | Named in honor of George B. Field {1929– }, director of the Harvard College Observatory and Smithson |
| 2326 | Tololo | Named to commemorate the founding of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in northern Chile o |
| 2331 | Parvulesco | Named in memory of the Roumanian professor Constantin Parvulesco (1890–1945), who worked with the di |
| 2334 | Cuffey | Named in honor of James Cuffey, a member of the Indiana University faculty from 1946 to 1966 and the |
| 2346 | Lilio | Named on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Gregorian Calendar in mem |
| 2350 | von Lude | Named in memory of Heinz von Lude (1914-1974), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut who |
| 2351 | O'Higgins | Named in memory of Bernardo O’Higgins (1778–1842) and to honor the people of Chile, who regard him a |
| 2356 | Hirons | Named in honor of the discoverer's parents-in-law, Charles and Ann Hirons. |
| 2358 | Bahner | Named in honor of Klaus Bahner {1921– }, staff member of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory who h |
| 2359 | Debehogne | Named in honor of Henri Debehogne, astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Uccle, noted for his astrome |
| 2364 | Seillier | Named by the discoverer in honor of his mother and her family. (M 9079) |
| 2370 | van Altena | Named in honor of William F. van Altena, well-known astrometrist at the Yale University Observatory. |
| 2378 | Pannekoek | Named in memory of A. Pannekoek (1873–1960), Dutch astronomer, director of the Astronomical Institut |
| 2381 | Landi | Named in honor of Jorge Landi Dessy, formerly director of the Córdoba Observatory and professor at t |
| 2383 | Bradley | Named in honor of Martin and Maud Bradley, friends of the discoverer. |
| 2384 | Schulhof | Named in memory of Leopold Schulhof (1847–1921), Hungarian-born astronomer who spent most of his wor |
| 2395 | Aho | Named in honor of Arne J. Aho by his coworkers in appreciation of his hard work that made their work |
| 2399 | Terradas | Named in memory of Esteban Terradas e Illa (1883–1950), outstanding Spanish mathematician, professor |
| 2409 | Chapman | Named in honor of Clark R. Chapman, planetary astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucso |
| 2410 | Morrison | Named in honor of David Morrison, astronomer at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. His research in |
| 2411 | Zellner | Named in honor of Benjamin H. Zellner, astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He brought |
| 2417 | McVittie | Named in honor of George C. McVittie {1904–1988} on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 1984 June 5. |
| 2421 | Nininger | Named on the occasion of the 95th birthday, 1982 Jan. 17, of Harvey Harlow Nininger, celebrated U.S. |
| 2429 | Schurer | Named in honor of Max Schürer (1910–1997), who from 1947 to 1980 was director of the Astronomical In |
| 2434 | Bateson | Named in honor of Frank Maine Bateson, director of the Variable Star section of the Royal Astronomic |
| 2441 | Hibbs | Named in honor of Al and Marka Hibbs, long time friends of the first discoverer, who wishes to ackno |
| 2444 | Lederle | Named in honor of Trudpert Lederle {1922–2002}, astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut sin |
| 2445 | Blazhko | Named in memory of Sergej Nikolaevich Blazhko (1870–1956), director of the Moscow Observatory during |
| 2451 | Dollfus | Named in honor of Audouin Dollfus, astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, Meudon. Dollfus is renow |
| 2452 | Lyot | Named in memory of the French astronomer Bernard Lyot (1897-1952). One of the outstanding experiment |
| 2455 | Somville | Named in memory of Oscar Somville (1880–1980), some time head of the seismological section of the Uc |
| 2459 | Spellmann | Named in honor of the discoverer's father, Leonard Spellmann, who has been a never-failing source of |
| 2461 | Clavel | Named in honor of Gustavine Clavel and her family on the occasion of her hundredth birthday, 1991 Ap |
| 2463 | Sterpin | Name proposed by the discoverer’s daughter, Micheline Van Biesbroeck Wilson, in memory of her mother |
| 2465 | Wilson | Named in honor of Sir Robert Wilson F.R.S., Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College Lond |
| 2466 | Golson | Named in memory of John C. Golson (1927–1984), the first employee of the Kitt Peak National Observat |
| 2472 | Bradman | Named in honor of the legendary Australian cricketer Donald George Bradman (1908–2001), whose test-m |
| 2476 | Andersen | Named for Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), great Danish writer of fairy tales. (M 9767) |
| 2481 | Burgi | Named for Jost Bürgi (1552–1632) of Lichtensteig in the Toggenburg valley, who won European fame as |
| 2482 | Perkin | Named in honor of Richard S{cott} and Gladys T{almage} Perkin, long-time friends and supporters of a |
| 2484 | Parenago | Named in memory of Pavel Petrovich Parenago (1906–1960), a professor at Moscow University, a corresp |
| 2485 | Scheffler | Named in honor of Helmut Scheffler (1928– ), staff member of the Heidelberg Königstuhl Observatory a |
| 2488 | Bryan | Named in memory of William Lowe Bryan (1860–1955), president of Indiana University from 1902 to 1937 |
| 2490 | Bussolini | Named in memory of Juan A. Bussolini, S.J. (1905–1966), solar physicist, director of the Observatori |
| 2493 | Elmer | Named in memory of Charles Wesley Elmer (1872–1954), whose meeting with Richard S. Perkin {see plane |
| 2494 | Inge | Named in honor of Jay L. Inge, friend of the discoverer and cartographer at the U.S. Geological Surv |
| 2499 | Brunk | Named in honor of William E. Brunk, astronomer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administratio |
| 2504 | Gaviola | Named in honor of Enrique Gaviola {1900–1990}, some time director of the Cordoba Observatory, founde |
| 2511 | Patterson | Named in honor of Clair C. Patterson {1922–1995}, geochemist at the California Institute of Technolo |
| 2513 | Baetsle | Named in memory of Paul-Louis Baetslé (1909–1983), professor of astronomy and geodesy at the Brussel |
| 2516 | Roman | Named in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, a space-age astronomer who joined the staff of the National Aer |
| 2518 | Rutllant | Named in memory of Federico Rutllant Alcina (1904–1971), director of the Observatório Astronómico Na |
| 2525 | O'Steen | Named in honor of the discoverer’s mother, Mary Elizabeth O’steen Skiff. (M 6834) |
| 2527 | Gregory | Named in honor of Bruce Gregory Thomas, youngest son of the discoverer, whose name was taken from th |
| 2528 | Mohler | Named in memory of Orren C. Mohler (1908–1985), solar astronomer, director of the McMath-Hulbert Obs |
| 2532 | Sutton | Named in honor of Robert L. Sutton, geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey. As a member of the fiel |
| 2533 | Fechtig | Named in honor of Hugo Fechtig (1929– ), director at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in |
| 2534 | Houzeau | Named in memory of Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820–1888), second director of the Observatoire Royal de Br |
| 2537 | Gilmore | Named in honor of Alan C. and Pamela M. (Kilmartin) Gilmore, whose program of astrometric observatio |
| 2543 | Machado | Named in honor of Luiz Eduardo da Silva Machado { –1992}, director of the Valongo Observatory and pr |
| 2545 | Verbiest | Named in memory of Father Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary in China and astronomer at the cour |
| 2548 | Leloir | Named in honor of the outstanding Argentinian biochemist Luis Federico Leloir {1906–1987}, recipient |
| 2549 | Baker | Named in honor of James G. Baker {1914– }, astrophysicist, innovator, advisor. To many he is best kn |
| 2550 | Houssay | Named in memory of the remarkable Argentinian scientist and teacher Bernardo A. Houssay (1887–1971), |
| 2554 | Skiff | Named in honor of Brian A. Skiff, who has recently made valuable contributions to the asteroid astro |
| 2555 | Thomas | Named in honor of Norman G. Thomas, for many years an observer on the Lowell proper motion and aster |
| 2557 | Putnam | Named in appreciation of the long and continuing support of the Lowell Observatory by members of the |
| 2565 | Grogler | Named in memory of Norbert Grögler (1928–1983), mineralogist and planetologist who made significant |
| 2586 | Matson | Named in honor of Dennis L. Matson, planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who has pl |
| 2587 | Gardner | Named in honor of the American mathematician Martin Gardner, well known for his column on mathematic |
| 2590 | Mourao | Named in honor of R. R. de Freitas Mourão {1935– }, astronomer at the National Observatory in Rio de |
| 2600 | Lumme | Named in honor of Kari Lumme, of the University of Helsinki. This Finnish astronomer has done much t |
| 2603 | Taylor | Named in honor of Gordon E. Taylor, astronomer at the Nautical Almanac Office, Royal Greenwich Obser |
| 2605 | Sahade | Named in honor of Jorge Sahade, former {1985–1988} president of the International Astronomical Union |
| 2611 | Boyce | Named in honor of Joseph M. Boyce, planetary scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis |
| 2623 | Zech | Named in honor of Gert Zech (1941– ), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut and editor of |
| 2636 | Lassell | Named for William Lassell (1799–1880), discoverer of Neptune’s satellite Triton and Uranus’ satellit |
| 2641 | Lipschutz | Named in honor of Michael E. Lipschutz, professor of chemistry at Purdue University and author or co |
| 2642 | Vesale | Named in memory of André Vésale (1514–1564), physician to Charles V, promoter of the value of the di |
| 2654 | Ristenpart | Named in memory of the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Ristenpart (1868–1913), appointed in 1906 |
| 2658 | Gingerich | Named in honor of Owen Jay Gingerich {1930– }, Harvard professor of astronomy and of the history of |
| 2659 | Millis | Named in honor of Robert L. Millis, planetary astronomer at Lowell Observatory, whose work on occult |
| 2660 | Wasserman | Named in honor of Lawrence H. Wasserman, planetary astronomer at Lowell Observatory. Like his collea |
| 2665 | Schrutka | Named in honor of the Austrian astronomer Guntram Schrutka von Rechtenstamm (1910–1995), who worked |
| 2666 | Gramme | Named in memory of Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), a joiner by profession, who constructed the first dire |
| 2673 | Lossignol | The family name of friends of the discoverer. (M 15572) |
| 2680 | Mateo | Named in memory of José Mateo (1914–1978), a geophysicist who was for many years in charge of the Gr |
| 2684 | Douglas | Named by the discoverer in honor of his brother, Douglas B. Thomas, a physicist at the National Bure |
| 2688 | Halley | Named in memory of the great English astronomer Edmond Halley (1656–1742) on the occasion of the rec |
| 2691 | Sersic | Named in honor of José Luis Sersic {1933–1993}, well known for his work in extragalactic astronomy a |
| 2708 | Burns | Named in honor of Joseph A. Burns, planetary astronomer at Cornell University. Burns’ wide-ranging r |
| 2710 | Veverka | Named in honor of Joseph Veverka, planetary astronomer at Cornell University. One of the first to st |
| 2712 | Keaton | Named for Joseph Francis (“Buster”) Keaton (1895–1966), American comedian, film actor and director. |
| 2718 | Handley | Named for Tommy Handley (1894–1949), one of Britain’s greatest entertainers of the Second World War. |
| 2730 | Barks | Named for Carl Barks, writer and illustrator. His comic-book stories have emphasized exploration and |
| 2732 | Witt | Named in memory of Gustav Witt (1866–1946), astronomer at the Berlin Observatory, discoverer of (433 |
| 2742 | Gibson | Named in honor of James B. Gibson, discoverer of the Amor object (1943) Anteros, one of the most acc |
| 2745 | San Martin | Named in memory of General José de San Martin (1778–1850), considered the father of Argentina and li |
| 2751 | Campbell | Named in memory of W. W. Campbell (1862–1938), observational spectroscopist, director of the Lick Ob |
| 2753 | Duncan | Named in memory of John Charles Duncan (1882–1967), a graduate of Indiana University, who taught ast |
| 2761 | Eddington | Named in memory of the great English astronomer and physicist Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) o |
| 2762 | Fowler | Named in memory of Ralph Howard Fowler (1889–1944), well-known English astrophysicist. Among his man |
| 2763 | Jeans | Named in memory of the celebrated English astronomer James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), whose wide-ran |
| 2764 | Moeller | Named by the discoverer in honor of his mother, Sonia Louise Moeller-Thomas. (M 7621) |
| 2773 | Brooks | Named in honor of William R. Brooks (1844–1921), American astronomer. As the village photographer at |
| 2775 | Odishaw | Named in memory of Hugh Odishaw (1916–1984), an organizer in international geophysical research duri |
| 2780 | Monnig | Named in honor of Oscar Monnig, of Fort Worth, Texas, who has devoted a lifetime to the study and po |
| 2784 | Domeyko | Named in memory of Ignacio Domeyko (1802–1889), a Polish scientist who moved to Chile in 1830 as a t |
| 2795 | Lepage | Named in honor of Theophile Lepage, professor of mathematics at the Université de Liège during 1928– |
| 2796 | Kron | Named in honor of Gerald E. Kron, member of the staff of the Lick Observatory during 1938–1965 and d |
| 2808 | Belgrano | Named in memory of General Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820), creator of the Argentinian national flag. Af |
| 2812 | Scaltriti | Named in honor of Franco Scaltriti, astronomer at the Pino Torinese Observatory. With his colleague |
| 2814 | Vieira | Named in honor of Gilson Vieira, astronomer at the Valongo Observatory and professor at the Universi |
| 2817 | Perec | Named for Georges Perec, who wrote a 300-page novel La Disparition (Paris, 1969) without using the l |
| 2819 | Ensor | Named in memory of Baron James Ensor (1860–1949), renowned painter and sculptor from Ostende, whose |
| 2824 | Franke | Named in honor of Ernst H. Franke, professor of biophysics at the University of Cincinnati. He gaine |
| 2825 | Crosby | Named for Harry Lillis (“Bing”) Crosby (1903–1977), American singer and film actor. Crosby began to |
| 2831 | Stevin | Named in memory of Simon Stevin (1548–1620), Dutch mathematician, inventor of the decimal point. (M |
| 2842 | Unsold | Named in honor of Albrecht Unsöld {1905–1995}, author of Physik der Sternatmosphären, long-term prof |
| 2844 | Hess | Named in honor of Frederick Hess, professor of natural sciences at the State University of New York |
| 2852 | Declercq | The family name of the wife of the discoverer. (M 15573) |
| 2853 | Harvill | Named in memory of Richard A. Harvill (1905–1988), president of the University of Arizona from 1951 |
| 2854 | Rawson | Named in memory of Guillermo Colesbery Rawson (1825–1890), Argentine physician who worked very hard |
| 2855 | Bastian | Named in honor of Ulrich Bastian (1951– ), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelb |
| 2856 | Roser | Named in honor of Siegfried Röser (1948– ), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidel |
| 2864 | Soderblom | Named in honor of Lawrence A. Soderblom, planetary geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. His co |
| 2865 | Laurel | Named for Stan Laurel (1890–1965), American comedian (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, En |
| 2866 | Hardy | Named for Oliver Norville Hardy (1892–1957), American comedian, the fat half of Hollywood’s first gr |
| 2870 | Haupt | Named in honor of Hermann F. Haupt {1926– }, director of the Institute for Astronomy, University of |
| 2871 | Schober | Named in honor of Hans Josef Schober {1944– }, astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy, University |
| 2875 | Lagerkvist | Named in honor of Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, planetary astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observat |
| 2882 | Tedesco | Named in honor of Edward F. Tedesco, planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who has m |
| 2884 | Reddish | Named in honor of Vincent C. Reddish, former Astronomer Royal for Scotland and director of the Royal |
| 2888 | Hodgson | Named in honor of Richard G. Hodgson, professor at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Founder in 197 |
| 2891 | McGetchin | Named in memory of Thomas R. McGetchin (1936–1979), geologist and planetary scientist, from 1977 dir |
| 2896 | Preiss | Named in honor of Günter Preiss (1929– ) on the occasion of his retirement in 1992 from the position |
| 2901 | Bagehot | Named in memory of Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), English economist, political analyst and highly influ |
| 2902 | Westerlund | Named in honor of Bengt E. Westerlund, director of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, on the occa |
| 2904 | Millman | Named in honor of Peter MacKenzie Millman {1906–1990}, former head of Upper Atmosphere Research and, |
| 2905 | Plaskett | Named in memory of John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941), director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observa |
| 2913 | Horta | Named in memory of Baron Victor Horta (1861–1947), Belgian architect, who broke with tradition and w |
| 2918 | Salazar | Named in honor of Frederick Salazar, son-in-law of the discoverer. (M 9216) |
| 2919 | Dali | Named in honor of the great Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904–1989), who in a career spanning over |
| 2923 | Schuyler | Named in honor of Catherine Schuyler on the occasion of the completion of her studies at Harvard Uni |
| 2925 | Beatty | Named in honor of J. Kelly Beatty, associate editor of Sky and Telescope, on the occasion of his mar |
| 2928 | Epstein | Named in honor of Isadore Epstein, professor emeritus of astronomy at Columbia University and former |
| 2929 | Harris | Named in honor of Alan W. Harris, planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose resear |
| 2937 | Gibbs | Named in memory of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), mathematician and physicist, who worked at Yale |
| 2940 | Bacon | Named for the English scholar Francis Bacon (1561-1626), thought by some to have been the author of |
| 2945 | Zanstra | Named in memory of H. Zanstra (1894–1972), Dutch astronomer, director of the Astronomical Institute |
| 2947 | Kippenhahn | Named in honor of Rudolf Kippenhahn (1926– ), German astronomer, director of the Max-Planck-Institut |
| 2950 | Rousseau | Named in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), citizen of Geneva, moralist and writer. The gui |
| 2954 | Delsemme | Named in honor of Armand H. Delsemme, professor of astrophysics at the University of Toledo, Ohio, r |
| 2955 | Newburn | Named in honor of Ray L. Newburn, astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recognized for his de |
| 2956 | Yeomans | Named in honor of Donald K. Yeomans, celestial mechanician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and disc |
| 2964 | Jaschek | Named in honor of Carlos Jaschek {1926–1999}, professor of astronomy at the University of Strasbourg |
| 2970 | Pestalozzi | Named for Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), Swiss educator of worldwide influence. Inspired by |
| 2974 | Holden | Named in memory of Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914), first director of the Lick Observatory and f |
| 2975 | Spahr | Named in honor of Timothy Bruce Spahr (1970– ) of the Bigelow Sky Survey. This photographic survey u |
| 2978 | Roudebush | Named in honor of Susan Horner Roudebush, in appreciation of her outstanding work as administrator f |
| 2980 | Cameron | Named in honor of Alastair G. W. Cameron {1925–}, astrophysicist and cosmogonist and currently assoc |
| 2981 | Chagall | Named in honor of the Russian-born painter Marc Chagall (1887–1985), whose dreamlike, often whimsica |
| 2984 | Chaucer | Named for the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400). (M 10044) Chaucer is also honored by a lun |
| 2987 | Sarabhai | Named in honor of Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (1919–1971), a cosmic-ray physicist who created several in |
| 2990 | Trimberger | Named in honor of Stephen M. Trimberger, who as a Caltech undergraduate participated in the Palomar |
| 2992 | Vondel | Named for the Dutch poet and playwright (1587–1679). (M 10044) |
| 2994 | Flynn | Named by Mike Candy {see planet (3015)} in honor of his wife Vicki Marie Flynn, at one time a staff |
| 2996 | Bowman | Named in honor of Fred N. Bowman, a volunteer astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory, born on the |
| 2997 | Cabrera | Named in honor of Laurentino Ascencion Cabrera (1917– ), an outstanding Argentine astronomer, long o |
| 3002 | Delasalle | Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, founder of the Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes in France duri |
| 3007 | Reaves | Named in honor of Gibson Reaves, astronomer, historian and educator at the University of Southern Ca |
| 3008 | Nojiri | Named in memory of Hoei Nojiri (1885–1977), the most famous popularizer of astronomy in Japan. Havin |
| 3015 | Candy | Named in honor of Michael P. Candy {1928–1994}, acting director of Perth Observatory and an active a |
| 3019 | Kulin | Named in memory of György Kulin (1905–1989), staff astronomer at the Konkoly Observatory from 1935 t |
| 3020 | Naudts | Named in memory of Ignace Naudts (1949–1992), active Belgian amateur astronomer, editor of the month |
| 3023 | Heard | Named in memory of John Frederick Heard (1907–1976), professor of astronomy at the University of Tor |
| 3025 | Higson | Named in honor of Roger Higson, night assistant for the 1.2-m Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observato |
| 3029 | Sanders | Named in honor of Jeffrey D. Sanders, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Surve |
| 3030 | Vehrenberg | Named in honor of Hans Vehrenberg (1910–1991) of Düsseldorf: publisher, amateur astronomer, and crea |
| 3032 | Evans | Named in honor of the Reverend Robert O. Evans, Australian amateur astronomer and discoverer of seve |
| 3034 | Climenhaga | Named in honor of John L. Climenhaga, first head of physics at the University of Victoria, on the oc |
| 3035 | Chambers | Named in honor of John Eric Chambers (1969– ), graduate student at Manchester University, currently |
| 3036 | Krat | Named in memory of Vladimir Alekseevich Krat (1911–1983), corresponding member of the U.S.S.R. Acade |
| 3050 | Carrera | Named in memory of the brothers Carrera, Javiera (1781–1862), Juan José (1782–1818), José Miguel (17 |
| 3059 | Pryor | Named in honor of Carlton P. Pryor, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey |
| 3060 | Delcano | Named in memory of Juan Sebastián del Cano, the first to circumnavigate the globe. While Magellan {s |
| 3061 | Cook | Named for James Cook (1728–1779), British circumnavigator and one of the first scientific navigators |
| 3062 | Wren | Named for Christopher Wren (1632–1723), British architect and astronomer who was professor of astron |
| 3064 | Zimmer | Named in memory of Louis Zimmer (1888–1970), world-famous Belgian maker of astronomical clocks. Many |
| 3066 | McFadden | Named in honor of Lucy-Ann A. McFadden, planetary scientist at the University of Maryland, for her s |
| 3075 | Bornmann | Named in honor of Patricia L. Bornmann, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Sur |
| 3076 | Garber | Named in honor of Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus and Ramsey fellow of the Smithsonian Institutio |
| 3077 | Henderson | Named for Thomas Henderson (1798–1844), Scottish astronomer and noted computer. He was appointed Roy |
| 3078 | Horrocks | Named for Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641), the English astronomer who predicted the transit of Venus a |
| 3086 | Kalbaugh | Named in honor of Carroll Kalbaugh Liller, father of astronomer William Liller {see planet (3222)}, |
| 3090 | Tjossem | Named in honor of a pioneer family in central Washington, four generations of whose members have bee |
| 3093 | Bergholz | Named in memory of Ol’ga Fedorovna Bergholz (1910–1975), talented poetess and writer. (M 13174) |
| 3098 | van Sprang | Named in honor of Bert van Sprang, a Dutch amateur who is very active in popularizing astronomy. An |
| 3100 | Zimmerman | Named in memory of Nikolaj Vladimirovich Zimmerman (1890–1942), head of the astrometric department o |
| 3101 | Goldberger | Named in honor of Marvin L. Goldberger, gifted physicist, teacher and humanitarian, to commemorate h |
| 3104 | Durer | Named for Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg (1471–1528), master painter, woodcutter, engraver, scholar of |
| 3105 | Stumpff | Named in memory of Karl Stumpff (1895–1970), eminent celestial mechanist and professor of astronomy |
| 3106 | Morabito | Named in honor of Linda A. Morabito, member of the Optical Navigation Team for the Voyager 1 spacecr |
| 3107 | Weaver | Named in honor of Kenneth F. Weaver, senior assistant editor for science of the National Geographic |
| 3109 | Machin | Named in memory of renowned sculptor Arnold Machin (1911–1999). His sculpture of the effigy of queen |
| 3110 | Wagman | Named in memory of Nicholas E. Wagman (1905-1980), American astronomer and leading astrometrist. As |
| 3114 | Ercilla | Named in memory of Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga (1533–1594), Spanish poet and soldier who distingu |
| 3115 | Baily | Named for Francis Baily (1774–1844), English astron?omer and one of the founders of the Royal Astron |
| 3116 | Goodricke | Named for John Goodricke (1764–1786), the deaf and dumb Dutch-English astronomer who studied the lig |
| 3117 | Niepce | Named for the Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niepce (1765–1833), who made the first photograph in 1827 u |
| 3123 | Dunham | Named in honor of David W. Dunham, American astronomer and organizer of the International Occultatio |
| 3125 | Hay | Named for William Thompson Hay (1888–1949), British music-hall comedian and film star of the 1930s a |
| 3129 | Bonestell | Named in honor of Chesley Bonestell {1888–1986}, whose art has inspired generations of astronomers, |
| 3132 | Landgraf | Named in honor of Werner Landgraf {1959– }, who found the identifications and computed the orbit for |
| 3135 | Lauer | Named in honor of Tod R. Lauer, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey whil |
| 3144 | Brosche | Named in honor of Peter Brosche (1936– ), astronomer at Heidelberg and Bonn. He has developed the de |
| 3151 | Talbot | Named for the Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), who made the first silver nitrate pho |
| 3152 | Jones | Named in honor of Albert Francis Arthur Lofley Jones, New Zealand amateur astronomer renowned for th |
| 3153 | Lincoln | Named in memory of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln se |
| 3154 | Grant | Named in memory of Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885), eighteenth president of the United States and |
| 3155 | Lee | Named in memory of Robert Edward Lee (1807–1870), general-in-chief of the Confederate States of Amer |
| 3156 | Ellington | Named in honor of Edward Kennedy (“Duke”) Ellington (1899–1974), renowned jazz pianist, composer and |
| 3160 | Angerhofer | Named in memory of Philip E. Angerhofer (1950–1986), astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washi |
| 3161 | Beadell | Named in honor of Len Beadell, surveyor at Salisbury, South Australia. The last of the geographical |
| 3164 | Prast | Named in honor of Martin Prast, friend of one of the discoverers. Severely wounded in Vietnam in 197 |
| 3167 | Babcock | Named in memory of Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968) and in honor of his son Horace W. Babcock, astronom |
| 3172 | Hirst | Named in honor of William P. Hirst, computer of the orbits of several of the minor planets discovere |
| 3173 | McNaught | Named in honor of Rob McNaught, who has been in charge of the University of Aston’s satellite-tracki |
| 3179 | Beruti | Named in memory of Arturo Beruti (1862–1938), Argentine composer, author of the operas Pampa, Kryse, |
| 3180 | Morgan | Named in honor of William W. Morgan {1906–1994}, whose career at the Yerkes Observatory since 1926 h |
| 3184 | Raab | Named in honor of Herbert Raab (1969– ), author of the widely-used and acclaimed Astrometrica softwa |
| 3188 | Jekabsons | Named in memory of Peter Jekabsons (1943–1990), a gifted observer on the Perth staff for sixteen yea |
| 3193 | Elliot | Named in honor of James L. Elliot, professor of physics and astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute |
| 3197 | Weissman | Named in honor of Paul R. Weissman {1947- }, cometary physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who |
| 3201 | Sijthoff | Named in honor of Albert Georg Sijthoff, publisher, owner of the former Zeiss planetarium in The Hag |
| 3203 | Huth | Named in memory of Hans Huth (1925–1988), an assiduous observer who obtained more than 100,000 patro |
| 3204 | Lindgren | Named in honor of Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren {1907–2002}, renowned Swedish writer, author of many f |
| 3205 | Boksenberg | Named in honor of Alexander Boksenberg, director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, in recognition |
| 3207 | Spinrad | Named in honor of Hyron Spinrad {1934– }, a professor of astronomy at the University of California a |
| 3208 | Lunn | Named in memory of Borge Lunn (1912–1986), Danish civil engineer and metallurgist who did much to en |
| 3209 | Buchwald | Named in honor of Vagn Fabritius Buchwald, associate professor in the department of metallurgy at th |
| 3217 | Seidelmann | Named in honor of P. Kenneth Seidelmann {1937– }, director of the Nautical Almanac Office of the U.S |
| 3222 | Liller | Named in honor of William Liller, formerly Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy at H |
| 3225 | Hoag | Named in honor of Arthur Allen Hoag {1921–1999}, American astronomer and, since 1977, director of th |
| 3228 | Pire | Named in memory of Dominique Pire (1910–1969), who worked for the underprivileged and won the Nobel |
| 3235 | Melchior | Named in honor of Paul Melchior, well-known geophysicist, general secretary of the IUGG since 1971 a |
| 3236 | Strand | Named in honor of Kaj Aa. Strand {1907–2000}, former Scientific Director of the U.S. Naval Observato |
| 3246 | Bidstrup | Named in memory of Herluf Bidstrup (1912–1988), well known Danish caricaturist. (M 18136) |
| 3247 | Di Martino | Named in honor of Mario Di Martino, astronomer at the Osservatorio di Torino, who in recent years ha |
| 3248 | Farinella | Named in honor of Paolo Farinella (1953–2000), planetary scientist at the University of Pisa, whose |
| 3253 | Gradie | Named in honor of Jonathan C. Gradie, planetary scientist at the Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics, U |
| 3255 | Tholen | Named in honor of David J. Tholen {1955– }, planetary scientist at the Institute for Astronomy of th |
| 3256 | Daguerre | Named for the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787–1851), who invented the daguerrotype phot |
| 3263 | Bligh | Named for Lt. William Bligh (1754–1817), renowned navigator, who had sailed with Captain Cook {see p |
| 3265 | Fletcher | Named for Fletcher Christian {1764–1792}, leader of the mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty {see planet (32 |
| 3268 | De Sanctis | Named by the first discoverer in honor of the second, Giovanni DeSanctis, astronomer at the Osservat |
| 3270 | Dudley | Named in honor of H. Dudley Wright, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and benefactor of science, educ |
| 3280 | Gretry | Named in memory of André Grétry (1741–1813), composer from Liège, particularly known for his comic o |
| 3284 | Niebuhr | Named in memory of Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), astronomer-surveyor, the sole survivor of the ill-fa |
| 3287 | Olmstead | Named in honor of C. Michelle Olmstead for her enthusiastic assistance in the asteroid astrometry pr |
| 3292 | Sather | Named in honor of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory research assistant and high-school teacher Bob Sath |
| 3299 | Hall | Named in honor of John Scoville Hall {1908–1991}, American astronomer and director of the Lowell Obs |
| 3300 | McGlasson | Named in honor of Van McGlasson, head of the Computation Facility at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center |
| 3303 | Merta | Named by the discoverer in memory of his grandfather, František Merta (1872–1953), elementary-school |
| 3304 | Pearce | Named in honor of Joseph A. Pearce {1893–1988}, who joined the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical O |
| 3308 | Ferreri | Named in honor of Walter Ferreri, who works in the photographic minor-planet program at the Osservat |
| 3312 | Pedersen | Named in honor of Bodil and Helge Pedersen, who have made a great contribution to the popularization |
| 3314 | Beals | Named in memory of Canadian astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979), fourth Dominion Astronomer a |
| 3315 | Chant | Named in memory of Clarence Augustus Chant (1865–1956), generally referred to as the “father of Cana |
| 3316 | Herzberg | Named in honor of Gerhard Herzberg {1904–1999}, Canadian Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1971 and ack |
| 3327 | Campins | Named in honor of Humberto Campins, research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. |
| 3329 | Golay | Named in honor of Marcel Golay (1927– ), who from 1956 to 1992 was director of the Observatoire de G |
| 3333 | Schaber | Named in honor of Gerald G. Schaber, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of the bran |
| 3336 | Grygar | Named in honor of Jiří Grygar on the occasion of his 60th birthday. A Czech astronomer working in Pr |
| 3341 | Hartmann | Named in honor of William K. Hartmann, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson |
| 3343 | Nedzel | Named in memory of V. Alexander Nedzel, scholar, gentleman, patron of the sciences and friend. The f |
| 3350 | Scobee | Named in memory of Francis R. Scobee (1939–1986), commander. (M 10549) This planet and the following |
| 3351 | Smith | Named in memory of Michael J. Smith (1945–1986), pilot. (M 10550) See the comment to planet (3350). |
| 3353 | Jarvis | Named in memory of Gregory B. Jarvis (1944–1986), payload specialist. (M 10550) See the comment to p |
| 3354 | McNair | Named in memory of Ronald E. McNair (1950–1986), mission specialist. (M 10550) See the comment to pl |
| 3356 | Resnik | Named in memory of Judith A. Resnik (1949–1986), mission specialist. (M 10550) See the comment to pl |
| 3363 | Bowen | Named in memory of Ira S. Bowen (1898–1973), whose investigation of the ultraviolet spectra of highl |
| 3366 | Godel | Named for Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), American logician of Austrian origin. He is the author of the famo |
| 3368 | Duncombe | Named in honor of Raynor L. Duncombe {1917– }, astronomer at the University of Texas, on the occasio |
| 3371 | Giacconi | Named in honor of Riccardo Giacconi {1931– }, since 1981 the first director of the Space Telescope S |
| 3382 | Cassidy | Named in honor of William A. Cassidy (1928– ), geologist at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a p |
| 3387 | Greenberg | Named in honor of Richard J. Greenberg {1947– }, planetary scientist at the University of Arizona. G |
| 3389 | Sinzot | The family name of the discoverer’s maternal grandmother. (M 15573) |
| 3390 | Demanet | The family name of the discoverer’s paternal grandmother. (M 15573) |
| 3398 | Stattmayer | Named in honor of Peter Stättmayer {1945– }, director of the Munich Public Observatory, on the occas |
| 3404 | Hinderer | Named in memory of Fritz Hinderer (1912–1991), German astronomer at the Potsdam and Babelsberg Obser |
| 3414 | Champollion | Named for Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist who in 1822 found the key to th |
| 3417 | Tamblyn | Named in honor of Peter Tamblyn, enthusiastic volunteer at the Minor Planet Center during the summer |
| 3420 | Standish | Named in honor of E. Myles Standish, Jr., celestial mechanician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who |
| 3422 | Reid | Named in honor of Gordon Reid (1923–1989) and his wife Ruth. Gordon Reid was foundation professor of |
| 3428 | Roberts | Named in memory of Walter Orr Roberts (1915–1990), from 1960 to 1970 the founding director of the Na |
| 3430 | Bradfield | Named in honor of William A. Bradfield, rocket engineer of Dernancourt, South Australia. Discoverer |
| 3433 | Fehrenbach | Named in honor of Charles Fehrenbach {1914– }, who pioneered the successful use of the objective pri |
| 3434 | Hurless | Named in memory of Carolyn J. Hurless {1934–1987}, of Lima, Ohio. From 1959 until her death in 1987 |
| 3435 | Boury | Named in memory of Arsène Boury (1934–1982), fellow-student, colleague and friend of the discoverer. |
| 3440 | Stampfer | Named in memory of Simon Stampfer (1790–1864), who despite his humble beginnings became an astronome |
| 3445 | Pinson | William Hamet Pinson, Jr. (b. 1919), emeritus professor of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of |
| 3446 | Combes | Named in honor of the French amateur astronomer Michel-Alain Combes (1942– ), who for many years has |
| 3449 | Abell | Named in memory of George O. Abell (1927–1983), astronomer at the University of California at Los An |
| 3450 | Dommanget | Named in honor of Jean Dommanget, head of the department of astrometry and celestial mechanics at th |
| 3452 | Hawke | Named in honor of B. R. Hawke, planetary geologist at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Hawke’s re |
| 3454 | Lieske | Named in honor of Jay Henry Lieske {1941– }, astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, well known |
| 3455 | Kristensen | Named in honor of Leif Kahl Kristensen, teacher in theoretical physics at the University of Aarhus, |
| 3464 | Owensby | Named in honor of Pamela D. Owensby, planetary astronomer at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Her |
| 3467 | Bernheim | Named in honor of Robert Burnham Jr. {1931–1993}, past staff member of the Lowell Observatory during |
| 3472 | Upgren | Named in honor of Arthur R. Upgren Jr., director of Van Vleck Observatory and president of IAU Commi |
| 3474 | Linsley | Named in memory of Earle Garfield Linsley (1882–1969), professor of geography at Mills College, Oakl |
| 3475 | Fichte | Named in memory of Hubert Fichte (1935–1986), German writer and an important presence in the post-Wo |
| 3477 | Kazbegi | Named for one of the highest mountains in Georgia, Kazbegi (also known as Mkinvartsveri), in the Cau |
| 3478 | Fanale | Named in honor of Fraser P. Fanale, planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Fanal |
| 3484 | Neugebauer | Named in honor of the Neugebauers, prominent family of physicists and mathematicians who have made s |
| 3485 | Barucci | Named in honor of M. Antonella Barucci, planetary scientist at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale |
| 3487 | Edgeworth | Named in memory of Kenneth Essex Edgeworth (1880–1972), Irish engineer, economist, military man and |
| 3488 | Brahic | Named in honor of André Brahic, astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, and at the Universi |
| 3498 | Belton | Named in honor of Michael J. S. Belton {1934– } of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories for |
| 3503 | Brandt | Named in honor of John C. Brandt of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of |
| 3505 | Byrd | Named in honor of Deborah Byrd, writer and producer of “Star Date”, a radio program that since 1978 |
| 3506 | French | Named in honor of Linda M. French, planetary scientist at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and P |
| 3507 | Vilas | Named in honor of Faith Vilas, planetary scientist at the Johnson Manned Space Center in Houston. Vi |
| 3510 | Veeder | Named in honor of Glenn J. Veeder, planetary astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Veeder was |
| 3520 | Klopsteg | Named in memory of Paul E. Klopsteg (1889–1991), who died on 1991 Apr. 28, a month before his 102nd |
| 3521 | Comrie | Named in memory of Leslie John Comrie (1893–1950), New Zealand-born innovator in computational scien |
| 3524 | Schulz | Named in honor of Charles M. Schulz (1922– ), cartoonist and creator of the syndicated comic strip “ |
| 3527 | McCord | Named in honor of Thomas B. McCord, planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. McCor |
| 3528 | Counselman | Named in honor of Charles C. Counselman III (1943– ), professor of planetary science at the Massachu |
| 3529 | Dowling | Named in honor of Timothy E. Dowling, professor of planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute |
| 3530 | Hammel | Named in honor of Heidi Beth Hammel, planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog |
| 3531 | Cruikshank | Named in honor of Dale P. Cruikshank, planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Cru |
| 3534 | Sax | Named in memory of Adolphe Sax (1814–1894), inventor of the saxophone. (M 12211) |
| 3536 | Schleicher | Named in honor of David G. Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory for his many contributions to the ph |
| 3541 | Graham | Named in honor of Lloyd Wilson Graham (1940– ), executive director of the department of state servic |
| 3545 | Gaffey | Named in honor of Michael J. Gaffey, planetary scientist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hi |
| 3549 | Hapke | Named in honor of Bruce W. Hapke, planetary scientist at the University of Pittsburgh. A pioneer inv |
| 3573 | Holmberg | Named in honor of the Swedish astronomer Erik Holmberg {1909–2000} on the occasion of his eightieth |
| 3574 | Rudaux | Named for Lucien Rudaux (1874–1947), French astronomical painter, writer and amateur astronomer. Rud |
| 3578 | Carestia | Named in memory of Reinaldo Augusto Carestia (1932–1993) outstanding researcher who was, for more th |
| 3579 | Rockholt | The lifelong affection of Ronald Rockholt Sr. (b. 1928) for the stars led him to pursuits in aviatio |
| 3581 | Alvarez | Named in honor of Luis W. Alvarez {1911–1988}, physicist and Nobel laureate, and his son Walter Alva |
| 3593 | Osip | Named in honor of David J. Osip. As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, O |
| 3594 | Scotti | Named in honor of James V. Scotti {1960– } of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Scotti works with t |
| 3595 | Gallagher | Named in honor of John S. Gallagher III, director of Lowell Observatory. Gallagher’s particular devo |
| 3598 | Saucier | Named in honor of Agnes Elizabeth Saucier, grandmother of the discoverer. (M 12018) |
| 3602 | Lazzaro | Named in honor of Daniela Lazzaro (1956– ), an expert on the dynamics of planetary satellites at the |
| 3610 | Decampos | Named in honor of Jose Adolfo Snajdauf de Campos, of the Valongo Observatory, Federal University of |
| 3612 | Peale | Named in honor of Stanton J. Peale, planetary astronomer at the University of California at Santa Ba |
| 3614 | Tumilty | Named in honor of Jodi Anne Tumilty Thomas, daughter-in-law of the discoverer. The name is derived f |
| 3617 | Eicher | Named in honor of David J. Eicher, founder and editor-in-chief of Deep Sky magazine. In June 1977, a |
| 3619 | Nash | Named in honor of Douglas B. Nash of the San Juan Capistrano Research Institute, California, in reco |
| 3621 | Curtis | Named in memory of the discoverer’s high-school science teacher Curtis R. Carbutt (1911–1976), who w |
| 3625 | Fracastoro | Named in honor of Mario Girolamo Fracastoro, former director of the Catania and the Pino Torinese {s |
| 3627 | Sayers | Named in memory of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893–1957), British author of the Peter Wimsey detective st |
| 3633 | Mira | Named in memory of Hugo Mira (1937–1994), outstanding researcher who worked for more than twenty-fiv |
| 3635 | Kreutz | Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz (1854-1907), astronomer at the Kiel Observatory and from 1896 editor |
| 3637 | O'Meara | Named in honor of Stephen James O’Meara. Well known for his fine drawings of solar system objects, O |
| 3638 | Davis | Named in honor of Donald R. Davis, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. Da |
| 3640 | Gostin | Named in honor of Victor A. Gostin, geologist on the faculty of the University of Adelaide, South Au |
| 3647 | Dermott | Named in honor of Stanley F. Dermott, planetary scientist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. D |
| 3648 | Raffinetti | Named in memory of Virgilio Raffinetti (1869–1946), Argentine astronomer, who was director of La Pla |
| 3651 | Friedman | Named in honor of Louis and Connie Friedman on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary. As ex |
| 3658 | Feldman | Named in honor of Paul D. Feldman, professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins Universit |
| 3663 | Tisserand | Named for François Tisserand (1845–1896), contributor to the theory of general perturbations (Tisser |
| 3666 | Holman | Named in honor of Matthew J. Holman (1967– ), astronomer in the planetary sciences division at the H |
| 3670 | Northcott | Named for the Canadian astronomer Ruth Josephine Northcott (1913–1969), an associate professor at th |
| 3676 | Hahn | Named in honor of Gerhard Hahn, a planetary astronomer at Uppsala Observatory and a member of the re |
| 3677 | Magnusson | Named in honor of Per Magnusson, a planetary astronomer at Uppsala Observatory and a member of the r |
| 3682 | Welther | Named in honor of Barbara Welther (1938– ), historian of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center f |
| 3683 | Baumann | Named in honor of Paul Baumann (1901–1976) and his wife Helene (1899–1986). An amateur astronomer si |
| 3684 | Berry | Named in honor of Richard Berry, since 1979 editor-in-chief of Astronomy. He has actively promoted a |
| 3687 | Dzus | Named in honor of Paul K. Dzus {1969– } in appreciation of his helpful assistance at the Minor Plane |
| 3689 | Yeates | Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources of the Commonwea |
| 3690 | Larson | Named in honor of Stephen M. Larson, planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Well |
| 3692 | Rickman | Named in honor of Hans Rickman, a planetary astronomer at Uppsala Observatory and a member of the re |
| 3693 | Barringer | Named for Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860–1929), pioneer investigator of terrestrial meteorite craters |
| 3695 | Fiala | Alan D. Fiala (b. 1942) is an expert on predicting and observing eclipses, with special application |
| 3696 | Herald | Named in honor of the Australian amateur astronomer David Herald for his astrometric observations of |
| 3698 | Manning | Named in honor of Brian Manning, British amateur cometary astrometrist, whose numerous contributions |
| 3699 | Milbourn | Named in honor of Stanley William Milbourn {1925–1997}, editor of the circulars of the British Astro |
| 3706 | Sinnott | Named in honor of Roger W. Sinnott, associate editor of Sky and Telescope. His extensive telescope-m |
| 3707 | Schroter | Named in honor of Egon Horst Schröter (1928– ), German solar astronomer and director of the Freiburg |
| 3712 | Kraft | Named in honor of Robert P. Kraft (1927– ), professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Universit |
| 3713 | Pieters | Named in honor of Carle M. Pieters, geologist on the faculty of Brown University, Providence. Pieter |
| 3718 | Dunbar | Named in honor of Roy Scott Dunbar, physicist and planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laborato |
| 3721 | Widorn | Named in memory of Thomas R. Widorn, for several decades an astronomer at the Vienna University Obse |
| 3725 | Valsecchi | Named in honor of Giovanni B. Valsecchi, of the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Rome. Valsecchi’s |
| 3731 | Hancock | Named in memory of Langley George (“Lang”) Hancock (1909–1992), who started life as manager of the f |
| 3734 | Waland | Named in honor of Scottish optician Robert L. Waland, who developed new techniques for making the op |
| 3736 | Rokoske | Named for Thomas Leo Rokoske, professor of physics and astronomy at Appalachian State University in |
| 3737 | Beckman | Named in honor of Arnold O. Beckman, the inventor of the first practical electrical pH meter. Throug |
| 3740 | Menge | Named in honor of Sergio Menge de Freitas, vice-director of the Valongo Observatory, Federal Univers |
| 3748 | Tatum | Named in honor of Jeremy B. Tatum, professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria, British Col |
| 3755 | Lecointe | Named in honor of Georges Lecointe (1869–1929), director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium from 19 |
| 3758 | Karttunen | Named for Hannu Karttunen, Finnish astronomer and mathematician. Karttunen has developed a rather ge |
| 3759 | Piironen | Named in honor of Jukka Piironen, astronomer at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki. Work |
| 3760 | Poutanen | Named in honor of Markku Poutanen, Finnish astronomer. Poutanen has been active in the observation o |
| 3765 | Texereau | Named in honor of Jean Texereau, leading figure in the world of astronomical optics. Among the fine |
| 3767 | DiMaggio | Named in memory of the Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio (1914–1999), U.S. baseball legend. DiMaggio’s mo |
| 3768 | Monroe | Named for Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), née Norma Jean Mortensen (also known as Baker), renowned glamo |
| 3777 | McCauley | Named in honor of John Francis McCauley, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of the |
| 3778 | Regge | Named in honor of Tullio Regge, professor of the theory of relativity at Turin University. His resea |
| 3779 | Kieffer | Named in honor of Hugh Hartman Kieffer, geo-physicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of t |
| 3780 | Maury | Named in honor of Alain Maury, photographic scientist working on the Palomar Sky Survey II at Mount |
| 3783 | Morris | Named for Charles S. Morris, one of the foremost visual observers of comets. In addition to making m |
| 3788 | Steyaert | Belgian amateur astronomer Christian Steyaert (b. 1955) was president of the Belgian Dutch-language |
| 3792 | Preston | Named for Richard Preston, American author and teacher of English literature. Preston’s prize-winnin |
| 3798 | de Jager | Named in honor of Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer, former director of the observatory at Utrecht |
| 3805 | Goldreich | Named in honor of Peter Goldreich (1939– ), of the California Institute of Technology. Goldreich and |
| 3806 | Tremaine | Named in honor of Scott D. Tremaine (1950– ). Tremaine has made seminal contributions to solar-syste |
| 3807 | Pagels | Named in memory of Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988), physicist, activist, educator, administrator, editor |
| 3815 | Konig | Named by the second and third discoverers in memory of the first, Arthur König (1895–1969), who succ |
| 3819 | Robinson | Named in honor of Leif J. Robinson, editor of’ sky and Telescope’. Robinson’s career as an observer |
| 3820 | Sauval | Henri Sauval (1623-1676) was a French legal expert at the High judicial Court of Paris in the age of |
| 3821 | Sonet | Jean Sonet (1908-1987), a Belgian Jesuit, was a specialist in Romance languages, professor and later |
| 3831 | Pettengill | Named in honor of Gordon H. Pettengill, planetary physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno |
| 3832 | Shapiro | Named in honor of Irwin I. Shapiro {1929– }, physicist associated with the Massachusetts Institute o |
| 3837 | Carr | Named for Michael Harold Carr, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and chief of the Branch of |
| 3841 | Dicicco | Named in honor of Dennis di Cicco, since 1974 a staff member and since 1983 an associate editor of S |
| 3850 | Peltier | Named in memory of Leslie C. Peltier (1900–1980), one of this century’s most highly respected Americ |
| 3853 | Haas | Named in honor of Walter H. Haas of Las Cruces, New Mexico, founder and director, from 1947 until 19 |
| 3857 | Cellino | Named in honor of Alberto Cellino, an astronomer at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino. Cellino |
| 3859 | Borngen | Named in honor of Freimut Börngen, senior staff astronomer at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Ta |
| 3861 | Lorenz | Named in memory of Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (1903–1989), Austrian ethologist, who established the fie |
| 3865 | Lindbloom | George G. Lindbloom (1934-1989), artist, designer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, photographer and hum |
| 3866 | Langley | Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was founder of |
| 3869 | Norton | Named in memory of Arthur P. Norton (1876–1955), author of Norton’s Star Atlas, the most widely used |
| 3871 | Reiz | Named in honor of Anders Reiz (1915– ), professor emeritus at the Copenhagen University Observatory |
| 3873 | Roddy | Named in honor of David J. Roddy, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. A leading investigator |
| 3875 | Staehle | Named in honor of Robert L. Staehle, astronautical engineer, member of the technical staff of the Je |
| 3876 | Quaide | Named in honor of William L. Quaide for his extraordinary record of scientific achievement in furthe |
| 3877 | Braes | Named in honor of Luc L. Braes (1936– ), born in Belgium and since 1958 living and working in the Ne |
| 3880 | Kaiserman | Named in honor of Michael Kaiserman, American aeronautical engineer and enthusiastic supporter of re |
| 3887 | Gerstner | Named in memory of the physicist František Josef Gerstner (1756-1832) and his son František Antonín |
| 3888 | Hoyt | Named in memory of William Graves Hoyt (1921–1985), American journalist and historian. His books Pla |
| 3891 | Werner | Named in honor of Robert A. Werner, graduate student in aerospace engineering at the University of T |
| 3893 | DeLaeter | Named in honor of John DeLaeter, retired professor at Curtin University, Western Australia, in recog |
| 3895 | Earhart | Named for Amelia Mary Earhart (1897–1937), a distinguished pioneer in the field of aviation. She was |
| 3898 | Curlewis | Named in honor of Harold Burnham Curlewis (1874-1960), government astronomer for Western Australia d |
| 3913 | Chemin | Named in honor of Henriette and Robert Chemin, who, after many years at the Paris Observatory as lib |
| 3918 | Brel | Named in memory of the well-known Belgian artist Jacques Brel (1929–1978), famous also for his songs |
| 3924 | Birch | Named in honor of Peter V. Birch. An astronomer at the Perth Observatory since 1970, Birch made many |
| 3926 | Ramirez | Named in honor of Abel R. Ramirez, manager and impeccable host of the California Institute of Techno |
| 3931 | Batten | Named in honor of Alan H. Batten, an astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victori |
| 3937 | Bretagnon | Named in honor of Pierre Bretagnon, astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes. He is the author of a m |
| 3938 | Chapront | Named in honor of Jean Chapront and Michelle Chapront-Touzé, astronomers at the Bureau des Longitude |
| 3943 | Silbermann | Named for the famous Saxon organ builder Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), several of whose instrume |
| 3944 | Halliday | Named in honor of Ian Halliday, an astronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Re |
| 3947 | Swedenborg | Named for Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), Swedish scientist, philosopher, poet and theologian. Swede |
| 3959 | Irwin | Named in honor of John B. Irwin, professor of astronomy at Indiana University from 1948 to 1964. His |
| 3970 | Herran | Jose Antonio Ruiz de la Herran Villagomez (b. 1925), currently technical advisor of the Museum Unive |
| 3973 | Ogilvie | Professor of metallurgy at MIT and a researcher at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Robert E. Ogilvie |
| 3974 | Verveer | Named in honor of Arie J. B. Verveer, technical manager of the Perth Observatory, in recognition of |
| 3984 | Chacos | Albert Anthony Chacos (b. 1953) helped further the exploration of the planets as a key engineer for |
| 3987 | Wujek | Named in honor of Joseph H. Wujek, staff engineer in the Advanced Technology Group of Apple Computer |
| 4008 | Corbin | Named in honor of Thomas E. Corbin, head of the Meridian Circle Division at the U.S. Naval Observato |
| 4012 | Geballe | T. R. Geballe (b. 1944) is responsible for pioneering the first infrared spectral classification sys |
| 4014 | Heizman | Named in honor of Leonie A. Heizman, docent of the historical museum at the San Juan Capistrano miss |
| 4019 | Klavetter | Named in memory of James Jay Klavetter (1960–1997), professor of physics at California State Univers |
| 4021 | Dancey | Named in honor of Roy Dancey and Bruce D. Dancey, father and son, who successively headed the optica |
| 4024 | Ronan | Named in honor of Colin A. Ronan {1920–1995}, author and specialist in the history and philosophy of |
| 4025 | Ridley | Named in honor of Harold B. Ridley {1919–1995}, distinguished British astrophotographer specializing |
| 4026 | Beet | Named in honor of Ernest A. Beet {1904–1997}, a member of the British Astronomical Association for h |
| 4027 | Mitton | Named in honor of Simon and Jacqueline Mitton, astronomers in Cambridge, England. Originally at the |
| 4028 | Pancratz | After dreaming of going into space for 30 years, Chris Pancratz (1950-2003) has as a member of the B |
| 4029 | Bridges | Named in honor of Patricia M. Bridges, planetary cartographer with the U.S. Geological Survey. Based |
| 4030 | Archenhold | Named in memory of the German astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold (1861-1939). In 1896 he made it |
| 4031 | Mueller | Named in honor of Jean Mueller, observer for the Second Palomar Sky Survey with the 1.2-m Oschin Tel |
| 4045 | Lowengrub | Named in honor of Morton Lowengrub in celebration of the completion of the WIYN Observatory. As dean |
| 4046 | Swain | Named in memory of Joseph Swain (1857–1927), successor of Daniel Kirkwood {see planet (1578)} as pr |
| 4052 | Crovisier | Named in honor of Jacques Crovisier (1948– ), an astronomer at Paris-Meudon Observatory. Crovisier h |
| 4061 | Martelli | Named in honor of Giuseppe Martelli {1923–1994}, head of the Space and Plasma Physics Group at the U |
| 4069 | Blakee | Named in honor of Lawrence E. Blakee, who for 37 years has worked diligently in many capacities at t |
| 4078 | Polakis | Named in honor of Thomas A. Polakis (1961– ), mechanical engineer and friend of the discoverer. As a |
| 4081 | Tippett | Named for Sir Michael Tippett (1905–1998), English composer. Tippett’s music, particularly that for |
| 4082 | Swann | Named in honor of Gordon A. Swann, geologist at Northern Arizona University. As principal investigat |
| 4084 | Hollis | Named in honor of Andrew J. Hollis, a member of the British Astronomical Association since 1961. As |
| 4085 | Weir | Named in honor of Doris Blackman Weir, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. As technical edito |
| 4089 | Galbraith | Harvard University economist and polemicist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006), renowned for his use |
| 4091 | Lowe | Named in honor of Andrew Lowe, a Canadian professional geophysicist and amateur astronomer in Calgar |
| 4093 | Bennett | Named in honor of Jack Caister Bennett {1914–1990}, prominent South African amateur astronomer. Jack |
| 4099 | Wiggins | Patrick Wiggins (b. 1949) spent over 26 years with Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake City, educating t |
| 4104 | Alu | Named for Jeff Alu, a talented musician and composer, as well as a participant in the Palomar Planet |
| 4108 | Rakos | Named in honor of Karl D. Rakos (1925– ), Croatian-born Austrian astronomer, since 1973 professor of |
| 4111 | Lamy | Named in honor of Philippe Lamy, since 1973 a staff scientist at the Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatia |
| 4116 | Elachi | Named in honor of Charles Elachi, assistant laboratory director for Space Science and Instruments, J |
| 4119 | Miles | Named in honor of Howard G. Miles, founder director of the Artificial Satellite Section of the Briti |
| 4120 | Denoyelle | Named in honor of Jozef Denoyelle (1937– ) on the occasion of his retirement from the Uccle {see pla |
| 4131 | Stasik | Named in honor of John S. Stasik, science teacher at Weston Middle School, Massachusetts, responsibl |
| 4137 | Crabtree | William Crabtree (1610-1644), a cloth merchant in Salford, near Manchester, became the second person |
| 4140 | Branham | Named in honor of Richard L. Branham Jr. (1943– ), a U.S. astronomer who works in meridian astronomy |
| 4143 | Huziak | Richard Huziak (b. 1957) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging interests, which he purs |
| 4152 | Weber | Named for Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), German composer. Although Weber did not invent German Ro |
| 4154 | Rumsey | Norman J. Rumsey (b. 1924) is New Zealand's foremost optical designer. With Garry Nankivell he has d |
| 4159 | Freeman | Named in honor of Ann Freeman, executive secretary of the Seismological Laboratory of the California |
| 4168 | Millan | Named in memory of Julio Rodolfo Millan (1923-1995), first rector of the San Juan National Universit |
| 4171 | Carrasco | Named in honor of Juan Carrasco, senior night assistant at the Palomar Observatory. The safe operati |
| 4173 | Thicksten | Named in honor of Robert P. Thicksten, superintendent of the Palomar Observatory, California Institu |
| 4175 | Billbaum | Named in honor of William A. Baum on the occasion of his retirement from the directorship of the Pla |
| 4177 | Kohman | Truman Paul Kohman (b. 1916), emeritus professor of nuclear chemistry at Carnegie-Mellon University, |
| 4192 | Breysacher | Named in honor of Jacques Breysacher, astronomer in charge of the Section for Visiting Astronomers a |
| 4193 | Salanave | Originally a meteorologist, as first executive officer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific an |
| 4194 | Sweitzer | Named in honor of Paul A. Sweitzer (b. 1936) on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Sweitzer served |
| 4201 | Orosz | Named in honor of Elizabeth M. Orosz (1970– ), staff member at Melton Memorial Observatory at the Un |
| 4202 | Minitti | Michelle Minitti (b. 1973) is a researcher at Arizona State University who studies the mineralogy of |
| 4203 | Brucato | Named for Robert J. Brucato, assistant director of the Palomar Observatory. Working with more than a |
| 4204 | Barsig | Named in honor of Walter Barsig, a teacher of science and director of a major Bavarian state school |
| 4209 | Briggs | Named in honor of Geoffrey A. Briggs, space physicist, former Director of the Solar System Explorati |
| 4217 | Engelhardt | Named in honor of Wolf von Engelhardt, professor of mineralogy, and director of the Institute of Min |
| 4218 | Demottoni | Named in memory of Glauco de Mottoni y Palacios (1901–1988), Italian astronomer, engineer and collab |
| 4225 | Hobart | Joseph R. Hobart (b. 1944) is an electrical engineer, amateur radio operator W7LUX, and minor-planet |
| 4226 | Damiaan | Named for the Flemish priest Jozef De Veuster (1840–1889) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary o |
| 4228 | Nemiro | Andrej Antonovich Nemiro (1909-1995) worked at the Pulkovo Observatory for more than 50 years and wa |
| 4231 | Fireman | Named in memory of Edward Leonhard Fireman (1922–1990), on the staff of the Brookhaven National Labo |
| 4232 | Aparicio | Named in memory of Emiliano Pedro Aparicio (1921–1988), mineralogist and geologist at the National U |
| 4240 | Grun | Named in honor of Eberhard Grün (1942– ), a physicist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Hei |
| 4241 | Pappalardo | A. Neil Pappalardo is a pioneer in medical information technology. Together with his wife Jane, he |
| 4242 | Brecher | Named in honor of Aviva and Kenneth Brecher, each of whose research interests cover an enormous rang |
| 4243 | Nankivell | Garry R. Nankivell (b. 1929) is New Zealand's pre-eminent optical craftsman. Among his many product |
| 4246 | Telemann | Named in memory of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), whose authority as a musician and composer of |
| 4251 | Kavasch | Named in honor of Julius Kavasch (1920–1978) and his son Wulf-Dietrich Kavasch, both amateur geologi |
| 4252 | Godwin | Richard Godwin (b. 1955), a board member of the Space Frontier Foundation, served as executive direc |
| 4253 | Marker | Named after Wolfgang Märker, owner and director of the Märker cement factory at Harburg, located on |
| 4254 | Kamel | Named in honor of Lars Kamél, planetary astronomer and meticulous compiler and analyzer of cometary |
| 4259 | McCoy | Timothy J. McCoy (b. 1964) is a curator of the national meteorite collection at the National Museum |
| 4262 | DeVorkin | David H. DeVorkin (b. 1944), Chair of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical |
| 4269 | Bogado | Manuel D. Bogado (b. 1934) is a Paraguayan amateur astronomer, known for his contributions to amateu |
| 4276 | Clifford | Named in honor of Clifford J. Cunningham {1955– }, Canadian amateur astronomer and writer, whose int |
| 4278 | Harvey | Named in honor of G. Roger Harvey, instructor in astronomy at the University of North Carolina in Ch |
| 4283 | Stoffler | Named in honor of Dieter Stöffler, professor and director of the Institute for Planetology, Universi |
| 4285 | Hulkower | Named in honor of Neal D. Hulkower, mathematician, scientist and good friend of the discoverer with |
| 4295 | Wisse | Named in honor of Marijke Wisse-Schouten, who as a staff member of the Leiden Observatory performed |
| 4297 | Eichhorn | Named in honor of Heinrich Karl Eichhorn (b. 1927), Austrian-American astronomer, educator and schol |
| 4301 | Boyden | Massachusetts mechanical engineer Uriah Atherton Boyden (1804-1879) designed an improved turbine wat |
| 4309 | Marvin | Named in honor of Ursula B. Marvin {1922– }, geologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astroph |
| 4310 | Stromholm | Named in honor of Stig Strömholm, scholar, author, professor and vice chancellor of Uppsala Universi |
| 4312 | Knacke | Roger F. Knacke (b. 1941) studies interstellar ice and dust, comets and planetary atmospheres. Nota |
| 4313 | Bouchet | Named in honor of Patrice Bouchet, a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory at La Sil |
| 4314 | Dervan | Peter Dervan (b. 1945) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. |
| 4321 | Zero | Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (1915-1977) was an American actor, singer and artist. A Tony Award winner |
| 4324 | Bickel | Wolf Bickel (b. 1942) is a German amateur astronomer who started observing minor planets in 1995 at |
| 4325 | Guest | Named in honor of John E. Guest, reader in Planetary Studies at University College, London, and a co |
| 4326 | McNally | Named in honor of Derek McNally, Director of the University of London Observatory (University Colleg |
| 4329 | Miró | Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a famous Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist. Very close to |
| 4331 | Hubbard | Named in memory of Ralph “Doc” Hubbard (1885–1980), of Medora, North Dakota. The son of Elbert Hubba |
| 4332 | Milton | Named for Daniel J. Milton, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Milton, who has carried out g |
| 4333 | Sinton | Named in honor of William M. Sinton, planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy, University |
| 4334 | Foo | Lillian Foo (b. 1972) is a consultant at the World Bank who helped develop a radio program that was |
| 4338 | Velez | Named in honor of Reinaldo Velez, senior telescope operator at the Arecibo Observatory for the past |
| 4340 | Dence | Named for Michael R. Dence, executive director of the Royal Society of Canada and formerly a geologi |
| 4342 | Freud | Named in memory of Sigmund Freud (1865–1939), father of psychoanalysis. In 1885 he went to Paris and |
| 4344 | Buxtehude | Named in memory of the great organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707), undoubtedly the m |
| 4346 | Whitney | Named in honor of Charles A. Whitney, professor at Harvard University. Whitney has done seminal work |
| 4349 | Tiburcio | Named in honor of Julio Cesar dos Santos Tibúrcio, a Brazilian amateur astronomer and student of inf |
| 4358 | Lynn | Named in memory of William Thynne Lynn (1835–1911), assistant at Greenwich Observatory from 1854 to |
| 4359 | Berlage | Named in honor of H. P. Berlage (1896–1968), Dutch meteorologist and astronomer. His main astronomic |
| 4362 | Carlisle | Named in honor of Albert John Carlisle (1917–1993), who spent his life working in the Australian Bus |
| 4367 | Meech | Named in honor of Karen J. Meech (1959– ) of the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii |
| 4368 | Pillmore | Named for Charles L. Pillmore, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. A specialist in the use of |
| 4372 | Quincy | Named in memory of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth president of the United States and a lifelon |
| 4373 | Crespo | Named in honor of Antonio Crespo, electrical engineer at the Arecibo {see planet (4337)} Observator |
| 4378 | Voigt | Named in honor of Hans-Heinrich Voigt {1921– }, known for his work on radiative transfer and stellar |
| 4379 | Snelling | Named in honor of Reginald and Heather Snelling. Former owners of Carranya Station in Western Austra |
| 4380 | Geyer | Named in honor of Edward H. Geyer {1930– }, since 1965 the head of the Hoher List Observatory, on th |
| 4385 | Elsasser | Named in honor of Hans F. Elsässer (1929– ), professor of astronomy at Heidelberg University and sin |
| 4393 | Dawe | Named in honor of John A. Dawe, who was astronomer-in-charge at the U.K. Schmidt in 1979 when the fi |
| 4396 | Gressmann | Named in honor of Michael Gressmann, renowned astronomical optician of Falkensee, near Berlin. Schol |
| 4400 | Bagryana | Named in honor of Elisveta Bagryana {1893–1991}, the greatest Bulgarian poetess. Her lyric poetry se |
| 4409 | Kissling | Warwick M. Kissling (b. 1957) is an innovative applied mathematician. His computations have allowed |
| 4417 | Lecar | Named in honor of Myron Lecar (1930– ), astrophysicist in the Planetary Sciences division of the Har |
| 4435 | Holt | Named for Henry E. Holt, planetary geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Northern Arizona Un |
| 4438 | Sykes | Named in honor of Mark V. Sykes, planetary scientist at the Steward Observatory of the University of |
| 4443 | Paulet | Peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet (1874-1945) built a liquid-fuel rocket engine in 1895 and a prototyp |
| 4444 | Escher | The prints of Dutch graphic artist Maurits C. Escher (1898-1972) are characterized by their sophisti |
| 4451 | Grieve | Named for Richard A. F. Grieve, geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada and chief of their ge |
| 4453 | Bornholm | The beautiful and famous Danish rocky island of Bornholm is situated in the southern part of the Bal |
| 4456 | Mawson | Named in memory of Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958), Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. Afte |
| 4457 | van Gogh | Named in memory of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) on the 100th anniversary of |
| 4457 | van Gogh | Named in memory of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) on the 100th anniversary of |
| 4462 | Vaughan | Named in honor of Curtis T. Vaughan, Jr., a lifelong resident, prominent businessman, and community |
| 4469 | Utting | Named in honor of Muriel Janet Utting (1914– ), the Perth Observatory’s honorary historian since 198 |
| 4473 | Sears | A professor at the University of Arkansas, Derek Sears (b. 1948) has championed thermoluminescence a |
| 4476 | Bernstein | Named in memory of Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, a |
| 4477 | Kelley | Michael Shawn Kelley (b. 1958) is a program officer at the Planetary Science Division, NASA Headqua |
| 4478 | Blanco | Named in honor of Carlo Blanco, professor of astronomy at Catania University. Known for his intense |
| 4481 | Herbelin | Named in honor of Claude Herbelin (b. 1931), of Neuchâtel, on the occasion of his 65th birthday (199 |
| 4490 | Bambery | Named in honor of Raymond J. Bambery, chemist and image-processing scientist at the Jet Propulsion L |
| 4504 | Jenkinson | Named for Nora Jenkinson, Scottish astronomy educator. In the town of Haddington, near Edinburgh, sh |
| 4506 | Hendrie | Named in honor of Michael J. Hendrie, an English amateur with a longstanding interest in astronomy a |
| 4529 | Webern | Named for Anton Webern (1883–1945), Austrian composer. Associated with Schönberg and Berg {see plane |
| 4531 | Asaro | Named for Frank Asaro, nuclear chemist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of Cali |
| 4533 | Orth | Named for Charles J. Orth, nuclear chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Renown |
| 4548 | Wielen | Named in honor of Roland Wielen (1938– ), German astronomer, director of the Astronomisches Rechen-I |
| 4549 | Burkhardt | Named in honor of Gernot Burkhardt (1951– ), astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Hei |
| 4551 | Cochran | Named in honor of William D. Cochran and Anita L. Cochran, husband and wife astronomers at the Unive |
| 4558 | Janesick | Named in honor of James R. Janesick of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Janesick has been instrumental |
| 4564 | Clayton | As a professor at the University of Chicago, Robert Clayton (b. 1930) has pioneered the use of oxyge |
| 4565 | Grossman | Chairman of the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, Lawrence Grossman ( |
| 4570 | Runcorn | Named in memory of Stanley Keith Runcorn (1922-1995), British geophysicist. Runcorn's research cent |
| 4571 | Grumiaux | Named in memory of Arthur Grumiaux (1921–1986), Belgian violinist who studied at the conservatories |
| 4580 | Child | Named in honor of Jack B. Child, software engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Asteroid Projec |
| 4583 | Lugo | Raymond Lugo (b. 1957) helped further the exploration of the planets through his dedication and hard |
| 4588 | Wislicenus | German astronomer Walter F. Wislicenus (1859-1905) was an ardent observer at the Strasbourg Observat |
| 4589 | McDowell | Named in honor of Jonathan Christopher McDowell (1960– ), astrophysicist, space enthusiast and femin |
| 4595 | Prinz | Martin (Marty) Prinz (b. 1931) is a long-time curator of the meteorite collection at the American Mu |
| 4598 | Coradini | Named in honor of sister and brother Angioletta and Marcello Coradini, who have very actively promot |
| 4600 | Meadows | Jack Meadows (b. 1934), now retired from the Department of Information and Library Studies at Loughb |
| 4602 | Heudier | Named in honor of Jean-Louis Heudier, astronomer in charge of the operations of the Schmidt telescop |
| 4603 | Bertaud | Named in honor of Charles Bertaud, under whose leadership at Meudon the discoverer began his astrono |
| 4608 | Wodehouse | The English writer Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) is renowned for his humorous stories of th |
| 4609 | Pizarro | Named in honor of Guido and Oscar Pizarro, who operate the 1-m Schmidt telescope and who exposed the |
| 4612 | Greenstein | Named in honor of Jesse Greenstein (b. 1909), an expert in stellar spectroscopy with many discoverie |
| 4615 | Zinner | Named in memory of Ernst Zinner (1886–1970), assistant astronomer (1910–1914) and director (1926–195 |
| 4620 | Bickley | Named for the present site (since 1966) of the Perth Observatory. In 1915 the locality, in the Darli |
| 4628 | Laplace | Named in memory of the great French mathematician, astronomer and physicist, Pierre-Simon Marquis de |
| 4629 | Walford | Named in honor of Roy L. Walford, professor of pathology at the UCLA School of Medicine, noted for h |
| 4638 | Estens | Named for John (Jack) Locke Estens (1919– ), Australian astronomy educator. Following a life of farm |
| 4642 | Murchie | Named in honor of Scott Murchie (b. 1959), who has a diverse interest in planetary problems ranging |
| 4643 | Cisneros | Named in honor of Ernest Cisneros (b. 1964), one of the unsung heroes of planetary science. Cisneros |
| 4648 | Tirion | Named in honor of the Dutch cartographer Wil Tirion, author of the Sky Atlas 2000.0 and of many othe |
| 4652 | Iannini | Named in honor of Gualberto Mario Iannini (b. 1917), Argentinean astronomer who has worked in the fi |
| 4656 | Huchra | John Peter Huchra (1948-2010), Doyle professor of cosmology at Harvard and some time associate direc |
| 4664 | Hanner | Named in honor of Martha S. Hanner, planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who special |
| 4665 | Muinonen | Named in honor of Karri O. Muinonen, planetary scientist at the Lowell Observatory. Formerly at the |
| 4666 | Dietz | Named in honor of Robert S. Dietz, geologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. Die |
| 4673 | Bortle | Named for John E. Bortle, an American astronomer specializing in comets and variable stars. One of t |
| 4674 | Pauling | Named in honor of Professor Linus Pauling on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, 1991 Feb. 28. P |
| 4680 | Lohrmann | Named for Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann, an amateur astronomer and author of the famous lunar topographi |
| 4684 | Bendjoya | Named in honor of Philippe Bendjoya, astronomer at the Nice Observatory, who has carried out fruitfu |
| 4689 | Donn | Named in honor of Bertram D. Donn for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of solar sy |
| 4693 | Drummond | Named in honor of Jack D. Drummond of the Steward Observatory, University of Arizona. Drummond’s ana |
| 4694 | Festou | Named in honor of Michel C. Festou of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, for his extensive an |
| 4696 | Arpigny | Named in honor of Claude Arpigny of the Université de Liége, to recognize his preeminence in high-re |
| 4700 | Carusi | Named in honor of Andrea Carusi, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, in recognition of his work on the |
| 4701 | Milani | Named in honor of Andrea Milani of the University of Pisa for his contributions to understanding the |
| 4713 | Steel | Named in honor of Duncan Steel, Anglo-Australian astronomer who has conducted research on the origin |
| 4725 | Milone | Named in honor of Luis Ambrosio Milone (b. 1933), Argentinean astronomer who has been working in the |
| 4726 | Federer | Named in honor of Charles A. Federer, Jr., founding editor of “Sky and Telescope” {see planet (3243 |
| 4732 | Froeschle | Named in honor of Claude and Christiane Froeschlé, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice. Husband and |
| 4761 | Urrutia | Named in honor of Antonio Urrutia A., Chilean lawyer in Santiago and for three decades legal advisor |
| 4763 | Ride | Named in honor of Sally K. Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. From 1978 to 1987 Ride wa |
| 4765 | Wasserburg | Named for Gerald J. Wasserburg, professor of geology and geophysics at the California Institute of T |
| 4766 | Malin | Named in honor of David F. Malin, chemist and astrophotographer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory. |
| 4768 | Hartley | Named in honor of Malcolm Hartley, deputy astronomer in charge of the U.K. Schmidt telescope at Sidi |
| 4770 | Lane | Named in honor of Arthur Lonne Lane, manager of the geology and planetary section at the Jet Propuls |
| 4775 | Hansen | Named in memory of Peter Andreas Hansen (1795–1874), leading theoretical astronomer of the nineteent |
| 4783 | Wasson | Named for John T. Wasson, cosmochemist and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. |
| 4788 | Simpson | Named in honor of Robert W. L. Simpson, English composer, who has celebrated his 70th birthday in 19 |
| 4793 | Slessor | Mary Slessor (1848-1915) was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria. Her work and strong personality allo |
| 4794 | Bogard | Donald Bogard (b. 1940) of NASA's Johnson Space Center has been at the forefront of understanding th |
| 4796 | Lewis | Named in honor of Joseph Walter Lewis, Jr. and his wife Anne Beech Lewis, good friends of the discov |
| 4803 | Birkle | Named in honor of Kurt Birkle {1939– }, since 1974 the local director of the Calar Alto Observatory, |
| 4804 | Pasteur | Named in memory of the great French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), who proved |
| 4815 | Anders | Edward Anders (b. 1926), professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, has made many seminal cont |
| 4816 | Connelly | Named in honor of Robert Connelly, mathematician at Cornell University. A specialist in geometry, Co |
| 4817 | Gliba | George Gliba (b. 1948) is co-founder of the Chagrin Valley Astronomical Society. He has worked at th |
| 4819 | Gifford | Algernon Charles Gifford (1861-1948) published important papers on the impact origin of lunar crater |
| 4821 | Bianucci | Named in honor of Piero Bianucci, scientific journalist and member of the editorial staff of “La Sta |
| 4822 | Karge | Named in honor of Orville B. Karge (1919–1990), instructor of physics at San Dieguito and Torrey Pin |
| 4826 | Wilhelms | Named for Don E. Wilhelms, a leading student of the moon. Wilhelms coordinated a 20-year-long U.S. G |
| 4831 | Baldwin | Through his pioneering work on the impact origins of lunar craters, Ralph Baldwin (b. 1912) recogniz |
| 4837 | Bickerton | Alexander W. Bickerton (1842-1929), professor of chemistry at Canterbury College, was an inspiring t |
| 4843 | Mégantic | Named for Mont Mégantic, the largest observatory in Québec. Founded in 1978, its mission is to promo |
| 4849 | Ardenne | Named in memory of Manfred von Ardenne (1907–1997), German inventor and researcher in various fields |
| 4856 | Seaborg | Named in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), American nuclear chemist, academic administrator and |
| 4859 | Fraknoi | Named for Andrew Fraknoi on the occasion of his resignation as executive director of the Astronomica |
| 4864 | Nimoy | Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) was an American actor, film director and poet. Best known for his portraya |
| 4874 | Burke | Named in honor of James D. Burke on the occasion of his retirement from the Jet Propulsion Laborator |
| 4877 | Humboldt | Named after the scientist Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769–1859), who made e |
| 4878 | Gilhutton | Argentine astronomer Ricardo Gil-Hutton (b. 1958) works in solar-system research and is a specialist |
| 4885 | Grange | Named in honor of Alice Shoemaker Grange (1908– ), aunt of E. M. Shoemaker. (M 24917) |
| 4893 | Seitter | Named in honor of Waltraud C. Seitter {1930– }, director of the Münster (Westfalen) Astronomical Ins |
| 4901 | Ó Briain | Dara Ó Briain (b. 1972) is an Irish comedian who incorporates scientific topics into his stand-up ro |
| 4908 | Ward | Named in honor of Steven Ward, electronics technician in the Computation Facility at the Harvard-Smi |
| 4909 | Couteau | Named in honor of Paul Couteau, double-star observer at the Observatoire de Nice since 1959, on the |
| 4911 | Rosenzweig | “Pioneers of the Zone”, Jack (1919-1994) and Marcelle (b. 1929) Rosenzweig worked to help the Puerto |
| 4914 | Pardina | Named in honor of Elsa Gutierrez Rodriguez-Pardina (b. 1921), Argentinian astronomer who has worked |
| 4916 | Brumberg | Named in honor of Victor Aleksandrovich Brumberg (1933– ), staff member at the Institute of Theoreti |
| 4924 | Hiltner | Named in memory of William Albert Hiltner (1914–1991), discoverer of the interstellar polarization o |
| 4927 | O'Connell | Named for the Irish freedom fighter Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847). (M 21609) |
| 4937 | Lintott | Chris Lintott (b. 1980), a junior fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, works on star formation. Mu |
| 4939 | Scovil | Charles E. Scovil (b. 1928) is an amateur astronomer and curator of the Stamford Observatory in Conn |
| 4942 | Munroe | Randall Munroe (b. 1984) is a former NASA roboticist and the author of xkcd, a popular webcomic vari |
| 4950 | House | Named in honor of R. C. House, western novelist and journalist who has served, for the last 23 years |
| 4956 | Noymer | Named in honor of Andrew J. Noymer on the occasion of his twentieth birthday, 1991 Nov. 4. A student |
| 4958 | Wellnitz | Named in honor of Dennis D. Wellnitz (b. 1951), University of Maryland instrument builder, observer, |
| 4969 | Lawrence | Named in honor of Kenneth J. Lawrence (1964– ), astronomer and valuable member of the Palomar Planet |
| 4970 | Druyan | Named as a tribute to Ann Druyan for her many contributions to the public understanding of the human |
| 4974 | Elford | Named in honor of W. Graham Elford (1926– ), past president of IAU Commission 22. Since entering rad |
| 4978 | Seitz | Named in honor of Horstmar Seitz (1920–1943), a close friend of one of the discoverers. (M 22505) |
| 4990 | Trombka | A researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Jacob (Jack) Trombka (b. 1930) was instrumental |
| 4993 | Cossard | Italian archeoastronomer Guido Cossard (b. 1958) made a big contribution to the study of megalithic |
| 4994 | Kisala | During mid-2004 Rachel Kisala (b. 1985) helped out at the Minor Planet Center and Central Bureau for |
| 4996 | Veisberg | Named for the Russian painter Vladimir Grigor’evich Veisberg (1924–1985). (M 22505) |
| 5006 | Teller | Named in honor of the distinguished Hungarian-born, U.S. physicist Edward Teller {1908– }. Known for |
| 5007 | Keay | Named in honor of Colin Stewart Lindsay Keay (1930– ), past president of IAU Commission 22 and chair |
| 5024 | Bechmann | Poul Bechmann is the former head of the mechanical workshop at the Brorfelde Observatory. |
| 5033 | Mistral | Named in memory of the great poet from the Provence, Frederic Mistral (1830–1914), whose entire life |
| 5037 | Habing | Named in honor of Harm Habing (1937– ), professor of astronomy at the University of Leiden and presi |
| 5038 | Overbeek | Michiel Daniel Overbeek (b. 1920) is a prolific South African observer of variable stars and occulta |
| 5047 | Zanda | Brigitte Zanda (b. 1958) is a meteorite curator at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris |
| 5053 | Chladni | Named in honor of Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827), German meteoriticist. Generally regar |
| 5057 | Weeks | Eric R. Weeks (b. 1970) is a Professor in the Physics Department at Emory University. His research |
| 5061 | McIntosh | Bruce A. McIntosh (b. 1929) worked at the National Research Council Canada. The radar meteor survey |
| 5066 | Garradd | Named for Gordon John Garradd (1959– ), amateur astronomer and photographer who has wide-ranging int |
| 5068 | Cragg | Named in honor of Thomas A. Cragg, a quintessential amateur astronomer. In 1945 at age 17 he joined |
| 5077 | Favaloro | Rene Favaloro (1923-2000) was a well-known Argentinian cardiologist who first developed the coronary |
| 5079 | Brubeck | Dave Brubeck (b. 1920), California-born pianist and composer, is best known for his remarkable exper |
| 5081 | Sanguin | Juan Sanguin (1933-2006) was an Argentinian astronomer who was in charge of the minor planet and com |
| 5088 | Tancredi | Named in honor of Gonzalo Tancredi, Uruguayan astronomer who spent several years in Uppsala, working |
| 5090 | Wyeth | Named in memory of Stuart Wyeth, who provided the means for the construction, sixty years ago, of th |
| 5092 | Manara | Named in honor of Alessandro Manara, since 1963 an astronomer at the Brera Astronomical Observatory |
| 5095 | Escalante | Named in honor of Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher who has inspired thousands of underprivileg |
| 5097 | Axford | Named in honor of William Ian Axford, director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie, Lindau, and |
| 5100 | Pasachoff | Named in honor of Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial professor of astronomy, director of the Hopkins O |
| 5105 | Westerhout | Named in honor of Gart Westerhout, radio astronomer, on the occasion of his retirement as scientific |
| 5115 | Frimout | Named in honor of Dirk Frimout, the first Belgian astronaut. On 1992 Mar. 24 he went into orbit with |
| 5127 | Bruhns | Named in memory of the famous organist and composer Nicolaus Bruhns (1665–1697), born at Schwab-sted |
| 5129 | Groom | Named in honor of Steven L. Groom, a computer specialist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who desig |
| 5132 | Maynard | Named in honor of Owen E. Maynard, who played a major role in the achievement of the first manned la |
| 5134 | Ebilson | Named in honor of Elizabeth M. Bilson (b. 1937), administrative director of the Center for Radiophys |
| 5136 | Baggaley | Named in honor of W. Jack Baggaley (1938– ), radar meteor researcher at the University of Canterbury |
| 5137 | Frevert | Named in honor of Friedrich Frevert {-2001}, an amateur astronomer from Wetzlar, well-known for his |
| 5149 | Leibniz | Named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German philosopher and mathematician, co-inventor |
| 5150 | Fellini | Named in memory of Frederico Fellini (1920–1993), one of the world’s greatest film directors. He was |
| 5151 | Weerstra | Named in honor of Klaas Weerstra, administrative officer and longtime programmer at the Leiden Obser |
| 5152 | Labs | Dietrich Labs (b. 1921) is a German astrophysicist and professor at Heidelberg University and Königs |
| 5153 | Gierasch | Peter J. Gierasch (b. 1940) has solved fundamental problems in atmospheric dynamics for Mars, Jupite |
| 5159 | Burbine | Named in honor of Thomas Burbine in appreciation of his assistance at the Minor Planet Center during |
| 5160 | Camoes | Named in memory of Luiz de Camoes (Camoens, 1524-1580), the greatest of the Portuguese poets, whose |
| 5161 | Wightman | Named in honor of Kingsley W. Wightman, loved and respected teacher of astronomy, who inspired gener |
| 5166 | Olson | Named in memory of Irvin Edward (‘Ole’) Olson (1910–1993), telescope-dome manufacturer. After an uns |
| 5168 | Jenner | Named in memory of English country doctor Edward Jenner (1749–1823), who on 1796 May 14 vaccinated a |
| 5169 | Duffell | Named in honor of Stephen Duffell (1943– ), a long-time friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of |
| 5170 | Sissons | Named in honor of Anthony Sissons (1943– ), a long-time friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of |
| 5175 | Ables | Named in honor of Harold D. Ables (1938– ), an astronomer and former director at the U.S. Naval Obse |
| 5182 | Bray | Named in honor of Olin D. Bray on the occasion of his 85th birthday, 1992 August 28. A medical docto |
| 5188 | Paine | Named in memory of Thomas O. Paine, administrator of NASA from 1968 to 1970. He led the American spa |
| 5194 | Bottger | Named after Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682–1719). He was supposed to have made gold as alchemist to |
| 5195 | Kaendler | Named after Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706–1775), sculptor and porcelain-modeller at the Meissen Porc |
| 5197 | Rottmann | Named after Friedrich Rottmann (1797–1850), German Romantic landscape painter. He travelled on the o |
| 5207 | Hearnshaw | John Bernard Hearnshaw (b. 1946), professor at Canterbury University, has guided the Mt. John Observ |
| 5208 | Royer | Named in honor of Monsignor Ronald Royer, whose work in astronomical photography and variable-star o |
| 5211 | Stevenson | Named in honor of David J. Stevenson (1948– ) of the California Institute of Technology. A citizen o |
| 5223 | McSween | A professor at the University of Tennessee, Harry (Hap) McSween Jr. (b. 1945) has specialized in stu |
| 5226 | Pollack | Named in memory of James B. Pollack (1938–1994), a planetary scientist who spent much of his career |
| 5231 | Verne | Named for Jules Verne (1828–1905), French novelist and playwright. One of the founding fathers of mo |
| 5232 | Jordaens | Named for Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) on the 400th anniversary of his birth. This famous Flemish pain |
| 5246 | Migliorini | Named in memory of Fabio Migliorini (1971-1997), a young researcher tragically killed in a mountain |
| 5248 | Scardia | Named in honor of Marco Scardia (1948– ), astrometrist at the Merate branch of the Brera Astronomica |
| 5256 | Farquhar | Named in honor of Robert Farquhar, who has been active in the design of spacecraft and missions for |
| 5265 | Schadow | Named after Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850), German sculptor in the classicistic style. His bes |
| 5266 | Rauch | Named after Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857), German sculptor, first servant of King Friedrich Wil |
| 5272 | Dickinson | Named in honor of Terence Dickinson (1943– ), Canada’s foremost popularizer of astronomy. Dickinson |
| 5274 | Degewij | Named in honor of Johan Degewij (1944– ), of Utrecht Polytechnic Institute, for his contributions to |
| 5276 | Gulkis | Named in honor of Samuel Gulkis of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has over twenty-five years of r |
| 5281 | Lindstrom | Marilyn Lindstrom (b. 1946) is curator of the U.S. Antarctic meteorite collection at NASA's Johnson |
| 5289 | Niemela | Born in Helsinki, Virpi Niemela (b. 1936) moved to Argentina at the age of 17. She received her Ph. |
| 5290 | Langevin | Named in honor of Yves Langevin (b. 1951), French planetary scientist at the Institut d'Astrophysiqu |
| 5292 | Mackwell | Stephen J. Mackwell (b. 1956) is the Director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. He is a valued |
| 5297 | Schinkel | Named after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), German architect and painter. He lived in Italy for |
| 5299 | Bittesini | Named in honor of Luciano Bittesini (1950– ), Italian amateur astronomer and astrometrist. (M 30096) |
| 5308 | Hutchison | Robert Hutchison (b. 1938) recently retired as curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum i |
| 5309 | MacPherson | Glenn MacPherson (b. 1950), curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, has stu |
| 5310 | Papike | James Papike (b. 1937), director emeritus of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New M |
| 5313 | Nunes | Named in memory of Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and geographer, called “the peak figure in |
| 5329 | Decaro | Mario De Caro (b. 1963) is a philosopher who studies the philosophy of mind, the free-will controver |
| 5340 | Burton | Named in honor of William Butler Burton (1940– ), American born and since 1981 professor of astronom |
| 5342 | Le Poole | Named in honor of Rudolf Le Poole (1942– ), who spent several years in Tucson, working with G. P. Ku |
| 5345 | Boynton | William Boynton (b. 1944), professor of cosmochemistry and geochemistry at the University of Arizona |
| 5351 | Diderot | Named in memory of Denis Diderot (1713–1784), French author of dramas, novels and philosophical essa |
| 5365 | Fievez | Named in memory of Charles Fievez (1844–1890), the pioneer of astrophysics in Belgium. His scientifi |
| 5378 | Ellyett | Named in honor of Clifton Darfield Ellyett (1915– ), pioneer of radar meteor research in New Zealand |
| 5380 | Sprigg | Named for Reginald C. Sprigg (1919-1994), Australian exploration geologist, oceanographer, biologist |
| 5382 | McKay | Named for Christopher P. McKay (b. 1954), space scientist and exobiologist at NASA-Ames Research Cen |
| 5383 | Leavitt | Named in memory of Henriette Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) of the Harvard College Observatory, discoverer |
| 5386 | Bajaja | Esteban Bajaja (b. 1931) was in charge of the installation and operation of the first radio telescop |
| 5388 | Mottola | Named in honor of Stefano Mottola, of the Planetary Remote Sensing Section at the Deutsche Forschung |
| 5391 | Emmons | Richard Emmons (b. 1919), emeritus professor of physics at Ohio's Kent State University, had his int |
| 5392 | Parker | This Mars-crossing Phocaea {see planet (25) for the prototype} is named in honor of the American am |
| 5393 | Goldstein | Named in honor of Richard M. Goldstein (1927– ), radar astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, |
| 5394 | Jurgens | Named in honor of Raymond F. Jurgens (1937– ), a radar astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, |
| 5424 | Covington | Named in honor of Arthur Covington {1913–2001}, Canada’s first radio astronomer. His discovery, duri |
| 5438 | Lorre | Named in honor of Jean Lorre, one of the original members of the Image Processing Laboratory at the |
| 5441 | Andymurray | Named for Andrew Barron Murray (b. 1987), Scottish professional tennis player. |
| 5442 | Drossart | Named in honor of Pierre Drossart (1956– ), researcher of the CNRS at Paris-Meudon Observatory. Dros |
| 5443 | Encrenaz | Named in honor of Thérèse Encrenaz (1946– ), director of the Department of Space Research at the Par |
| 5444 | Gautier | Named in honor of Daniel Gautier (1936– ), senior scientist in the Department of Space Research at t |
| 5446 | Heyler | Named in honor of Gene A. Heyler (b. 1956), spacecraft attitude control expert at the Applied Physic |
| 5447 | Lallement | Named in honor of Rosine Lallement (b. 1951), French astrophysicist working at the Service d´Aéronom |
| 5448 | Siebold | Named in memory of Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796–1866), who went to Japan as a ship’s do |
| 5464 | Weller | Named in honor of Harold Weller (1941– ). Conductor of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra since 1981, |
| 5477 | Holmes | Amateur astronomer Robert E. Holmes Jr. (b.~1956) directs the Astronomical Research Observatory in W |
| 5485 | Kaula | Named in honor of William M. Kaula (1926– ), professor of earth and space science at the University |
| 5490 | Burbidge | Named in honor of E. Margaret Burbidge, astronomer at the University of California at San Diego. She |
| 5491 | Kaulbach | Named after Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874), German painter of portraits, historical scenes and nat |
| 5492 | Thoma | Named after Hans Thoma (1839–1924), German painter of mostly peaceful scenes depicting people in har |
| 5493 | Spitzweg | Named after Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), German painter of the Biedermeier art period. His anecdotal a |
| 5498 | Gustafsson | Named in honor of Bengt Gustafsson, professor of theoretical astrophysics at and director of the Upp |
| 5500 | Twilley | Named in honor of Royston C. Twilley (1914– ), primary school teacher of the discoverer in Tooting, |
| 5502 | Brashear | Named in memory of John A. Brashear (1840–1920), maker of astronomical telescopes and scientific ins |
| 5504 | Lanzerotti | Named in honor of Louis J. Lanzerotti, American space physicist, on the occasion of his completion o |
| 5515 | Naderi | Firouz Naderi (b. 1946) is a scientist, engineer and manager who has led major programs at the Jet P |
| 5519 | Lellouch | Named in honor of Emmanuel Lellouch (b. 1963), planetary scientist at Observatoire de Paris. Lellouc |
| 5521 | Morpurgo | Named in honor of Pieter Morpurgo, who has been the producer for the last 18 years of “The Sky at Ni |
| 5522 | De Rop | Named in honor of Willy De Rop (1933– ), astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Uccle, on the occasion |
| 5523 | Luminet | Named in honor of Jean-Pierre Luminet (b. 1951), French researcher at the Paris Observatory. Luminet |
| 5524 | Lecacheux | Named in honor of Jean Lecacheux, a planetary scientist at Paris Observatory. Lecacheux is one of th |
| 5529 | Perry | Named in honor of Marcus Perry and his work in the Spacewatch program. (M 22510) |
| 5530 | Eisinga | Named in honor of Eise Eisinga (1744–1821), Dutch amateur astronomer, on the 250th anniversary of hi |
| 5536 | Honeycutt | Kent Honeycutt (b. 1940), on the faculty of Indiana University, has made fundamental contributions t |
| 5542 | Moffatt | Ethelwin Frances Flamsteed Moffatt (née Winzar, b. 1926) is a direct descendant of John Flamsteed, t |
| 5551 | Glikson | Named in honor of Andrew Y. Glikson, retired senior research scientist with the Australian Geologica |
| 5553 | Chodas | Paul W. Chodas (1952- ) is a member of the Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsion Labo |
| 5554 | Keesey | Michael S. W. Keesey (1937- ) is a member of the Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsio |
| 5555 | Wimberly | Ravenel N. Wimberly (1946- ) is a member of the Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsion |
| 5567 | Durisen | Richard H. Durisen (b. 1946), on the faculty of Indiana University, has applied dynamical simulation |
| 5568 | Mufson | Stuart Mufson (b. 1946), on the faculty of Indiana University, has built pioneering instrumentation |
| 5569 | Colby | Michael John Colby (b. 1952) furthered the exploration of the planets by his role as spacecraft inte |
| 5577 | Priestley | Named for Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), an English clergyman who was the first to publish an account |
| 5579 | Uhlherr | Named in honor of engineer H. Ralph Uhlherr, a founder of the Siemens plant in Melbourne. An indefat |
| 5584 | Izenberg | Named in honor of Noam Izenberg (b. 1967), planetary scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory of |
| 5585 | Parks | Named in honor of Robert J. Parks, a leader in the exploration of the solar system. Early in his car |
| 5589 | De Meis | Salvatore De Meis (b. 1930), of Milan, is engaged in the application of astronomical calculations to |
| 5595 | Roth | Named in honor of Mary L. Roth (b. 1935), executive assistant to the organizing committee of the “As |
| 5596 | Morbidelli | Named in honor of Alessandro Morbidelli (1966– ). From Cuneo, in extreme western Italy, he joined th |
| 5597 | Warren | Named in honor of Jeffery Warren (b. 1960), optical engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Jo |
| 5610 | Balster | Named in honor of Harry A. M. Balster (1946– ) and his younger sister Yvonne. Harry is a very active |
| 5619 | Shair | Named in honor of Fredrick H. Shair, manager of the Educational Affairs Office at the Jet Propulsion |
| 5621 | Erb | Named in honor of Bryan and Dona Erb, friends of the discoverer. Brian is assistant director of the |
| 5624 | Shirley | Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Shirley in recognition of their generous, enthusiastic sup |
| 5635 | Cole | Named for the fictional character Joshua Cole, amateur astronomer and star of Arthur Preston Hankin’ |
| 5636 | Jacobson | Robert A. Jacobson (1944- ) is a noted authority on spacecraft navigation techniques, and he is curr |
| 5639 | Ćuk | Matija Ćuk (b. 1978) is a dynamical astronomer and a discoverer of the BYORP mechanism, by which the |
| 5641 | McCleese | Named in honor of Daniel J. McCleese, whose research is primarily in atmospheric physics and infrare |
| 5643 | Roques | Named in honor of !Françoise Roques (1956– ) for her work on the dynamics of planetary and circumste |
| 5651 | Traversa | In honor of Gilles Traversa, technical night-assistant at the Observatory of Haute Provence. He has |
| 5655 | Barney | Named in memory of Ida Barney (1886–1982), astronomer at the Yale Observatory from 1924 to 1959 and |
| 5659 | Vergara | Uruguayan astronomer Gladys Vergara Gavagnin (1928-2016) was the former director of the Astronomical |
| 5663 | McKeegan | Kevin McKeegan (b. 1958), professor of geochemistry at the University of California in Los Angeles, |
| 5664 | Eugster | Otto Eugster (b. 1938), professor at the University of Bern, investigates the chronologies and expos |
| 5665 | Begemann | Friedrich Begemann (b. 1927), director emeritus of the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, is a |
| 5671 | Chanal | Named in honor of Roger Chanal, French amateur astronomer and friend of the discoverer. Roger has ov |
| 5672 | Libby | Named in honor of Eleanor W. Libby, founder and president of the Donald Ware Waddell Foundation, whi |
| 5673 | McAllister | Named in honor of Frances McAllister, humanitarian and leading philanthropist of Flagstaff, Arizona. |
| 5674 | Wolff | Named in honor of John M. Wolff, a long-time trustee of the Wolff Foundation. Endowed by Wolff’s fat |
| 5678 | DuBridge | Named in memory of Lee Alvin DuBridge (1901–1994), noted nuclear physicist and former president of t |
| 5680 | Nasmyth | James Hall Nasmyth (1808-1890) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer, most famous for his invention |
| 5682 | Beresford | Named in honor of Anthony Charles Beresford (b. 1942), prominent Australian amateur astronomer. Amo |
| 5694 | Berenyi | Named in honor of Dénes Berényi (1928– ), professor of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hung |
| 5694 | Berenyi | Named in honor of Dénes Berényi (1928– ), professor of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hung |
| 5695 | Remillieux | Named in honor of Joseph Remillieux (1940– ), professor at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire de l’U |
| 5696 | Ibsen | Named in memory of the famous Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), whose most important traged |
| 5698 | Nolde | Named in memory of the German expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867–1957, real name Emil Hansen). H |
| 5701 | Baltuck | Miriam Baltuck (b. 1954), NASA's representative in Australia and southeast Asia from 1997 to 2002, a |
| 5702 | Morando | Named in honor of Bruno Morando (1931–1995), astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes, Paris, where h |
| 5704 | Schumacher | Named for the astronomer and geodesist Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780–1850), who in 1821 founde |
| 5715 | Kramer | Named in honor of Kathryn Xymena Kramer, Development Director at Lowell Observatory. Kramer has been |
| 5716 | Pickard | Named in honor of Elizabeth D. Pickard, philanthropist and community volunteer in Flagstaff, Arizona |
| 5726 | Rubin | Named in honor of American astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin (1928– ), who has studied the motions of gas |
| 5736 | Sanford | Named in honor of John Sanford, teacher, author, former president of the Orange County Astronomers, |
| 5758 | Brunini | Adrián Brunini (b. 1959) is head of the celestial mechanics group at La Plata Observatory and is wel |
| 5762 | Wänke | Heinrich Wänke (b. 1928), director emeritus of the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, is a pre |
| 5765 | Izett | Named in honor of Glen A. Izett, an American geologist of many talents. Izett has carried out the mo |
| 5768 | Pittich | Named in honor of Eduard M. Pittich (1940– ) of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of |
| 5769 | Michard | Named in honor of Raymond Michard (1925– ), administrator of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur sinc |
| 5771 | Somerville | Named for Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, 1780–1872), one of Europe’s most distinguished women scienti |
| 5774 | Ratliff | Until his tragic and untimely death, Nicholas Paul Ratliff (1982-2002), of Oklahoma City, was always |
| 5779 | Schupmann | In Die Medial-Fernrohre, Ludwig Schupmann (1851-1920) described a telescope incorporating ref |
| 5780 | Lafontaine | Named in memory of the French lyric poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621–1695), on the occasion of the 300 |
| 5785 | Fulton | Named in honor of Joseph A. Fulton, hardware engineer specializing in electro-mechanical devices. Ov |
| 5789 | Sellin | Named in honor of Ivan A. Sellin (1939– ), professor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the Uni |
| 5791 | Comello | Named in honor of Georg Comello (1942– ), Dutch amateur astronomer. His interests in astronomy inclu |
| 5793 | Ringuelet | Adela Ringuelet (b. 1930) has conducted most of her professional work at the La Plata Observatory. |
| 5796 | Klemm | Per Klemm (1949-2011) is a Danish professor of microbiology whose work focused on bacterial adhesins |
| 5798 | Burnett | As a professor at the California Institute of Technology, Donald Burnett (b. 1937) investigates the |
| 5799 | Brewington | Named in honor of Howard Brewington, discoverer of four comets beginning in 1989. To improve his cha |
| 5811 | Keck | Named in honor of Howard B. Keck, chairman and president emeritus of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The |
| 5819 | Lauretta | Dante Lauretta (b. 1970), a professor at the University of Arizona, is known for his ground-breaking |
| 5833 | Peterson | Colin A. Peterson (b. 1977), a research support specialist at Cornell University, and responsible fo |
| 5837 | Hedin | Named in memory of Sven Hedin (1865–1952), famous Swedish explorer of Central Asia. In his days ther |
| 5838 | Hamsun | Named in memory of Knut Hamsun, pseudonym of Knut Pedersen (1859–1952), the Norwegian novelist, dram |
| 5841 | Stone | Named in honor of Edward C. Stone for his distinguished achievements in expanding the frontiers of r |
| 5842 | Cancelli | Ferdinando Cancelli (b. 1969) is a doctor whose speciality is palliative medicine. He is deeply inv |
| 5884 | Dolezal | Named in memory of Erich Dolezal (1902–1990). He was a talented writer and popularizer of astronomy |
| 5885 | Apeldoorn | Named in honor of Berend Caspar Jan Apeldoorn (1944– ), Dutch amateur astronomer, on the occasion of |
| 5886 | Rutger | Lyle Lee Rutger (b. 1949) helped further the exploration of the planets through his role as leader o |
| 5888 | Ruders | Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is a Danish composer of daring and imaginative contemporary music, expressed i |
| 5890 | Carlsberg | Named in honor of Carlsbergfondet, established in 1876 by Jacob Christian Jacobsen (1811–1887), phil |
| 5893 | Coltrane | John Coltrane (1926-1967), originally an alto saxophonist but better known later as a brilliant teno |
| 5899 | Jedicke | Named in honor of the Jedicke family, notably Peter, Robert and June. One of Canada’s best known ama |
| 5905 | Johnson | Named for Lindley N. Johnson, who is responsible for planning the potential use of space-surveillanc |
| 5926 | Schonfeld | Named in memory of Eduard Schönfeld (1828–1891), famous German astronomer and director of the Mannhe |
| 5927 | Krogh | American mathematician Fred T. Krogh (b. 1937) developed the accurate, flexible and fast numerical i |
| 5929 | Manzano | José Roberto Manzano (1928-1999) took part in almost all the cosmic radiation projects developed in |
| 5937 | Loden | Named for Kerstin and Lars Olof Lodén. Kerstin, an astronomer at Stockholm Observatory, is a coautho |
| 5938 | Keller | Named for Horst Uwe Keller, well-known scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Lindau. Uwe was the |
| 5943 | Lovi | Named in memory of George Lovi (1939–1993), astronomical cartographer, planetarium lecturer and popu |
| 5948 | Longo | Named in honor of Giuseppe Longo (b. 1920), a physicist at the University of Bologna. For most of h |
| 5953 | Shelton | Named in honor of Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer, best known for his discovery of the supernova in |
| 5956 | d'Alembert | Named in memory of Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783), French philosopher and mathematician, famous |
| 5959 | Shaklan | Named in honor of Stuart B. Shaklan, an optical engineer, who performed the imaging design and analy |
| 5961 | Watt | James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish engineer whose improvements to the steam engine led to the rap |
| 5968 | Trauger | Named in honor of John T. Trauger, widely known for his remarkable achievements as principal investi |
| 5971 | Tickell | British diplomat Crispin Tickell (b. 1930), ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983) and to the U.N. (1987-1 |
| 5992 | Nittler | Larry Nittler (b. 1969), a scientist at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, is well known for his |
| 5999 | Plescia | Named in honor of Jeffrey B. Plescia, a versatile scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wor |
| 6010 | Lyzenga | Named in honor of Gregory Lyzenga, professor of physics at Harvey Mudd College. His keen interest in |
| 6011 | Tozzi | Named in honor of Gian Paolo Tozzi (1949– ) of the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory. Tozzi’s resear |
| 6016 | Carnelli | Ian Carnelli (b. 1976) has made major contributions in the development of asteroid mission concepts |
| 6019 | Telford | Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was a Scottish civil engineer and famed builder of roads, canals, bridges |
| 6036 | Weinberg | Named in honor of Steven Weinberg, elementary-particle physicist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Pri |
| 6054 | Ghiberti | Named for Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455), one of the most famous Italian sculptors. In the pestilence |
| 6057 | Robbia | Named for Luca della Robbia (1400–1482) and his family of most important Italian sculptors. Apart fr |
| 6065 | Chesneau | Olivier Chesneau (b. 1972) is a French astronomer who has studied circumstellar environments with th |
| 6066 | Hendricks | Named in honor of John Hendricks (1952– ), founder of Discovery Communications, Inc., which owns and |
| 6069 | Cevolani | Named in honor of Giordano Cevolani (1945– ), researcher of the Italian National Research Council (C |
| 6072 | Hooghoudt | Named in memory of Bernard G. Hooghoudt (1924–1995), key engineer for Dutch radio telescopes, having |
| 6080 | Lugmair | Günter Lugmair (b. 1940), director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, has made many con |
| 6081 | Cloutis | Edward Cloutis (b. 1958), professor at the University of Winnipeg, studies the spectra of mineral as |
| 6084 | Bascom | Named in memory of Florence Bascom (1862-1945), the first woman geologist in the United States. She |
| 6087 | Lupo | Named in honor of Bob Lupo. Wearing a black hat and a genial smile, Lupo typifies the Western cowbo |
| 6105 | Verrocchio | Named for the Italian sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488). Originally named Andre |
| 6106 | Stoss | Named for the German sculptor and wood-carver Veit Stoss (c. 1445–1553), who worked in Nürnberg and |
| 6107 | Osterbrock | Named in honor of Donald E. Osterbrock (b. 1924), professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Uni |
| 6109 | Balseiro | José Antonio Balseiro (1919-1962) was a key figure in the development of nuclear physics in Argentin |
| 6116 | Still | Named in memory of William Grant Still (1895–1978), American composer, also known as the “Dean of Am |
| 6122 | Henrard | Named in honor of Jacques Henrard (1940– ), professor of mathematics at the University of Namur. Hen |
| 6128 | Lasorda | The achievements of baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda (b. 1927) include leading the Los Angeles D |
| 6130 | Hutton | James Hutton (1726-1797) was one of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. His Theory of |
| 6132 | Danielson | Named in honor of G. Edward Danielson (1939– ) of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences |
| 6141 | Durda | Named in honor of Daniel D. Durda, who has studied the generation and evolution of dust from and the |
| 6147 | Straub | Named for the German sculptor Johann Baptist Straub (1704–1784). His most famous work is in the sout |
| 6150 | Neukum | Named in honor of Gerhard Neukum, director of the DLR Institute of Planetary Exploration in Berlin-A |
| 6153 | Hershey | Named in memory of Wesley Lamar Hershey (1913–1989), director of the Caltech “Y” at the California I |
| 6156 | Dall | Named in memory of Horace E. Dall (1901–1986), a talented craftsman known internationally for his sk |
| 6163 | Reimers | Dieter Reimers (b. 1943), director of the Hamburg Observatory, is well known for his work on white d |
| 6170 | Levasseur | Named in honor of Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (1945– ), professor at Paris VI University. An inci |
| 6176 | Horrigan | Barbara Llewellyn Horrigan (1915-2005) was an active member of the Arlington Friends of the Drama (M |
| 6179 | Brett | Named in honor of Robin Brett (1935– ), an Australian-born, Harvard-educated American citizen active |
| 6183 | Viscome | Named in honor of George R. Viscome (1956– ), of Lake Placid, New York. A broadcast technician respo |
| 6189 | Volk | Named in honor of Elisabeth Völk (1946– ), secretary at the European Southern Observatory’s headquar |
| 6191 | Eades | Named in honor of George Eades, currently celebrating his fiftieth year of membership in the British |
| 6204 | MacKenzie | Named in honor of Norman MacKenzie, a leading scholar of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Profes |
| 6213 | Zwiers | Named in memory of Hendrikus Johannes Zwiers (1865–1923), astronomer at the Leiden Observatory who w |
| 6224 | El Goresy | Ahmed El Goresy (b. 1933), a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, has conducted |
| 6243 | Yoder | Named in honor of Charles F. Yoder (1943– ), of Los Angeles, California. Yoder developed the first a |
| 6256 | Canova | Named for Antonio Canova (1757–1822), an Italian sculptor in the classicistic style. An opponent of |
| 6258 | Rodin | Named for the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). In his sculptures Rodin tried to express pe |
| 6259 | Maillol | Named for the French sculptor and graphic artist Aristide Maillol (1861–1944). He first studied pain |
| 6260 | Kelsey | Named in honor of Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914– ), research pharmacologist at the U.S. Food and Drug |
| 6271 | Farmer | Named in honor of Crofton Bernard Farmer, distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab |
| 6277 | Siok | Steve (b. 1949) and Kathy (b. 1949) Siok have been members of the Skyscrapers astronomy club of Rhod |
| 6280 | Sicardy | Named in honor of Bruno Sicardy (1958– ), professor of astronomy at Paris VI University. Sicardy’s r |
| 6285 | Ingram | During their sixteen-year tenure as housemasters of Ashdown House, a graduate dorm at the Massachuse |
| 6287 | Lenham | Named in memory of Alan P. Lenham (1930–1996), British research scientist at the Royal College of Sc |
| 6291 | Renzetti | Named in honor of Nicholas A. Renzetti (1914– ) on the occasion of his retirement from the Jet Propu |
| 6294 | Czerny | Named in memory of the well-known German piano teacher and composer Karl Czerny (1791–1857). His fir |
| 6295 | Schmoll | Named for the German piano teacher Antoine Schmoll, who at the age of seven received his first piano |
| 6307 | Maiztegui | Alberto Maiztegui (b. 1920) is well known as an educator throughout Latin America. He has taken par |
| 6309 | Elsschot | Named in memory of the famous Flemish writer Willem Elsschot, pseudonym of Alfons de Ridder (1882–19 |
| 6311 | Porubcan | Named in honor of Vladimír Porubčan (1940– ) of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of |
| 6350 | Schluter | Named for Andreas Schlüter (c. 1660–1714), German sculptor and architect. Most of his work is found |
| 6351 | Neumann | Named for Johann Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753), one of the famous German baroque architects. He work |
| 6352 | Schlaun | Named for Johann Conrad Schlaun (1694–1773), baroque architect who worked mostly for the prince-bish |
| 6361 | Koppel | Thomas Koppel (1944-2006) was a Danish musician who started as a classical pianist and composer. He |
| 6363 | Doggett | Named in memory of LeRoy E. Doggett (1941–1996), a staff astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory kn |
| 6364 | Casarini | Jeannine Casarini, a French teacher, participated in the Tunguska99 scientific expedition to Central |
| 6372 | Walker | Named in honor of Robert M. Walker (1929– ), a leading figure in the study of radiation damage in so |
| 6373 | Stern | Named in honor of S. Alan Stern (1957– ) of the Boulder, Colorado, office of Southwest Research Inst |
| 6376 | Schamp | Named in honor of Americans Larry and Becky Schamp of Alice Springs. Larry, an electrical engineer b |
| 6380 | Gardel | Singer, composer and actor Carlos Gardel (1890-1935) recorded during his lifetime hundreds of songs |
| 6384 | Kervin | Named in honor of Paul W. Kervin, chief scientist for the Phillips Laboratory’s Air Force Maui Optic |
| 6428 | Barlach | Named for Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), German sculptor, graphic artist and poet. In his work he expres |
| 6429 | Brancusi | Named for the Roumanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957). He initially worked in the style o |
| 6434 | Jewitt | Named in honor of David Jewitt (1958– ) of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. The co |
| 6436 | Coco | Named in honor of Mark and Colleen Coco and their children Kymberly, Jennifer, Lisa and Travis. An a |
| 6438 | Suárez | Buenaventura Suárez (1678-1750), a Jesuit and pioneer native astronomer of the Rio de la Plata, esta |
| 6446 | Lomberg | Named in honor of Jon Lomberg (b. 1948), graphic arts virtuoso, who has excelled in his renditions o |
| 6452 | Johneuller | Named in honor of John E. Euller, a dedicated and highly respected teacher of high-school physics. E |
| 6456 | Golombek | Named in honor of Matthew P. Golombek, research scientist in geology and planetary geology at the Je |
| 6461 | Adam | Robert Adam (1728-1792) was a Scottish architect. The most famous member of an accomplished family o |
| 6468 | Welzenbach | Linda C. Welzenbach (b. 1966) is collections manager in the Division of Meteorites at the Smithsonia |
| 6472 | Rosema | Named in honor of Keith D. Rosema (1967– ), computer scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In |
| 6473 | Winkler | Named in honor of Ron Winkler (1954– ), digital engineer in the radio astronomy and radar group at N |
| 6474 | Choate | Named in honor of Dennis Choate (1952– ), senior engineer at NASA’s Goldstone {see planet (4433)} d |
| 6478 | Gault | Named in memory of Donald Gault (1923-1999), a giant in the field of impact cratering processes. Ga |
| 6504 | Lehmbruck | Named for the German sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881–1919). After his education at the Düsseldorf A |
| 6505 | Muzzio | Juan Carlos Muzzio (b. 1946) is currently the director of the La Plata Institute of Astrophysics. H |
| 6510 | Tarry | Named in honor of Americans William and Nancy Tarry, whose kindness, thoughtfulness and friendship h |
| 6512 | de Bergh | Named in honor of Catherine de Bergh (1945– ), planetary scientist at the Paris Observatory who has |
| 6517 | Buzzi | Italian amateur astronomer Luca Buzzi (b. 1982) is an assiduous observer of comets and minor planets |
| 6518 | Vernon | Named in honor of Robert and Esther Vernon, longtime friends and, for more than 35 years, neighbors |
| 6519 | Giono | Named in memory of the Provençal writer Jean Giono (1895–1970). Born in Manosque, he left this small |
| 6523 | Clube | Named for the English astronomer S. Victor M. Clube (1934– ), renowned for his heterodox views on va |
| 6524 | Baalke | Named in honor of Ron Baalke, software engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who works on teleme |
| 6529 | Rhoads | Named in honor of R. Rhoads Stephenson for his significant contributions to the advancement of techn |
| 6532 | Scarfe | Named in honor of Colin D. Scarfe (1940– ), professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria sin |
| 6552 | Higginson | George Higginson (1999-2009), of Lancaster, England, killed tragically in a road accident, was a pro |
| 6553 | Seehaus | Named in memory of the painter Paul A. Seehaus (1891–1919) and the other painters of the “Rheinische |
| 6560 | Pravdo | Named in honor of Steven H. Pravdo, who works in the fields of X-ray astrophysics and extrasolar pla |
| 6561 | Gruppetta | John M. Gruppetta (b. 1957), a long-time friend of the discoverer, is a design engineer with an inte |
| 6564 | Asher | Named in honor of David John Asher (1966– ), researcher on the dynamics of the small bodies in the s |
| 6571 | Sigmund | Named in honor of Peter Sigmund (1936– ), professor at the Institute of Physics at Odense University |
| 6579 | Benedix | Gretchen K. Benedix (b. 1968) is curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum in London. Her |
| 6585 | O'Keefe | Named in honor of John Aloysius O’Keefe (1916–2000), American astronomer and a leading figure in est |
| 6587 | Brassens | Named in memory of Georges Brassens (1921-1981), a French poet born on the Mediterranean coast. Thi |
| 6610 | Burwitz | At the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Vadim Burwitz (b. 1965) studies comets, pl |
| 6625 | Nyquist | Laurence E. Nyquist (b. 1939) is a planetary scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His meticulo |
| 6629 | Kurtz | Named in honor of Paul Kurtz (b. 1925) of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Kurtz is pro |
| 6632 | Scoon | Named in honor of George E. N. Scoon (1936–). Born in Grenada, West Indies, Scoon studied in The Net |
| 6635 | Zuber | Named in honor of Maria T. Zuber, American geophysicist whose research interests have taken her into |
| 6636 | Kintanar | Roman Lucero Kintanar (b. 1929) directed the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Se |
| 6639 | Marchis | Franck Marchis (b. 1973) exploited the high-resolution capabilities offered by adaptive optics from |
| 6647 | Josse | Named in honor of Raymond Josse (1914– ), a graduate of the Ecole Militaire de l’Air and the Ecole N |
| 6670 | Wallach | Named for Annette and Leonard Wallach, in honor of their monumental effort in building Treasure Isla |
| 6671 | Concari | Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Concari (b. 1978) is an assiduous observer of minor planets from Su |
| 6672 | Corot | Named for the French painter and etcher Camille Corot (1796–1875). In his early years his style was |
| 6673 | Degas | Named for the French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas (1834–1917). His early paintings and sculpture |
| 6674 | Cezanne | Named for the French impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Cézanne was self-taught and influenced |
| 6675 | Sisley | Named for the French impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (1839–1899). He was influenced by Monet and |
| 6676 | Monet | Named for the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). He became acquainted with the n |
| 6677 | Renoir | Named for the French impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). He had a great influen |
| 6678 | Seurat | Named for the French impressionist painter Georges Seurat (1859–1891). Together with his friend, the |
| 6686 | Hernius | Named in honor of Olof Hernius, who participated in the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets ( |
| 6687 | Lahulla | Named in honor of José Felix Lahulla, astronomer at the Observatorio Astronómico de Madrid. Lahulla |
| 6689 | Floss | Christine Floss (b. 1961) is a meteoriticist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the t |
| 6690 | Messick | Hank H. Messick (b. 1955) first taught the discoverer the constellations. |
| 6691 | Trussoni | Edoardo Trussoni (b. 1945) is an astrophysicist who has spent most of his career studying high-energ |
| 6696 | Eubanks | Named in honor of Marshall Eubanks of the U.S. Naval Observatory. His contributions to astrometry an |
| 6698 | Malhotra | Named in honor of Renu Malhotra (1961– ), accomplished dynamicist and celestial mechanician at the L |
| 6710 | Apostel | Named in memory of the well-known Flemish philosopher Leo Apostel (1925–1995). He was a pupil of Cha |
| 6711 | Holliman | Named in memory of John Holliman (1948-1998), a national correspondent for CNN, the U.S. Cable News |
| 6712 | Hornstein | Karl Hornstein (1824-1882), the eighth director of the Klementinum observatory in Prague, studied th |
| 6734 | Benzenberg | German physicist and astronomer Johann Friedrich Benzenberg (1777-1846) organized a school for surve |
| 6740 | Goff | Named in honor of Robert and Valerie Goff, of Tucson, Arizona. One of the finest masters of optics i |
| 6748 | Bratton | Named in honor of Durley H. Bratton (b. 1923), who has been a mentor and inspiration for amateur ast |
| 6750 | Katgert | Named in honor of Peter Katgert (1944– ), astronomer at the Leiden Observatory, and his wife, Leiden |
| 6770 | Fugate | Named in honor of Robert Q. Fugate (1943– ), of the U.S. Air Force’s Starfire Optical Range (SOR), n |
| 6771 | Foerster | Named in honor of Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832-1921), director of the Berlin Observatory for nearly |
| 6773 | Kellaway | For her commentaries ridiculing management stupidities, Lucy Kellaway (b. 1959) of the Financial |
| 6775 | Giorgini | Named in honor of Jon D. Giorgini, who has contributed significantly to radar astrometry of minor pl |
| 6789 | Milkey | Robert Milkey (b. 1944) served as executive officer of the American Astronomical Society during 1995 |
| 6806 | Kaufmann | Named in honor of Horst W. Kaufmann (1929– ), well-known German astronomical optician. After spendin |
| 6807 | Brünnow | Named in memory of Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (1821-1891), who started his scientific career in B |
| 6808 | Plantin | Named in memory of Christophe Plantin (c.1520-1589), printer and founder of an important printing ho |
| 6814 | Steffl | Andrew J. Steffl (b. 1977), an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, |
| 6815 | Mutchler | Max J. Mutchler (b. 1965), an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Mary |
| 6819 | McGarvey | Flora McGarvey Smrekar (1924-1977) had many ambitions and dreamed of pursuing her interests in a sat |
| 6820 | Buil | Named in honor of Christian Buil, French amateur astronomer and long-term CCD enthusiast. Buil has b |
| 6826 | Lavoisier | Named for Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), father of modern chemistry. In a memoir presented t |
| 6837 | Bressi | Named in honor of Terrence H. Bressi, a dedicated and multi-talented engineer at the University of A |
| 6842 | Krosigk | Named in memory of Bernhard Friedrich Baron von Krosigk (1656–1714), an enthusiastic German amateur |
| 6857 | Castelli | Benedetto Castelli (1578-1643) studied mathematics in Padova and was a favorite pupil of Galileo, wi |
| 6865 | Dunkerley | Named in honor of Charlotte Herschel Dunkerley, a descendant of William Herschel {see planet (2000) |
| 6871 | Verlaine | Named in memory of the well-known French poet-symbolist Paul Verlaine (1844–1896). He was born in th |
| 6875 | Golgi | Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) was an Italian scientist, physician and biologist. The Golgi apparatus, Go |
| 6885 | Nitardy | Named in honor of John H. Nitardy, who has worked in communications engineering for the Boeing Compa |
| 6892 | Lana | Francesco Lana(1631-1687), an Italian Jesuit, professor of physics and mathematics, first explored t |
| 6893 | Sanderson | Richard Sanderson (b. 1955) is Curator of Physical Science at the Springfield Science Museum in Mass |
| 6904 | McGill | One of Canada's oldest and most highly regarded universities, McGill (founded 1838) has enjoyed a fi |
| 6909 | Levison | Named in honor of Harold Levison (1959– ) of the Boulder, Colorado, office of the Southwest Research |
| 6912 | Grimm | Named in memory of Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm (1723–1807). After studying at the University |
| 6914 | Becquerel | Named for the French physicist Henri Becquerel {1852–1908} on the centennial of his discovery of rad |
| 6935 | Morisot | Named in memory of Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), important French impressionistic painter. Her teacher |
| 6936 | Cassatt | Named in memory of Mary Cassatt (1845–1927), American impressionistic painter, who studied in Italy, |
| 6937 | Valadon | Named in memory of the French painter Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), the first model for Chavannes and |
| 6941 | Dalgarno | Named in honor of Alexander Dalgarno (b. 1928), on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Renowned for |
| 6943 | Moretto | Italian painter Moretto (Alessandro Bonvicino, 1498--1554) is recognized as one of the masters of th |
| 6945 | Dahlgren | Named in honor of Mats Dahlgren (1966– ) in celebration of the completion of his Ph.D. thesis on Hil |
| 6948 | Gounelle | Matthieu Gounelle (b. 1971) is curator of meteorites at Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle in Pari |
| 6949 | Zissell | Ronald E. Zissell (b. 1943) is an astronomer who has dedicated much of his career to observations of |
| 6956 | Holbach | Named in memory of the famous German philosopher Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723–1780), wit |
| 6974 | Solti | Music director of the Chicago Symphony from 1969 to 1991, Georg Solti (György Stern, 1912-1997) cond |
| 6977 | Jaucourt | Named in memory of the French writer Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (1704–1779), who studied theology a |
| 6999 | Meitner | Named in memory of Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian nuclear physicist. Meitner was only the second |
| 7000 | Curie | Named in memory of Marie Curie (1867–1934), the only person to receive Nobel prizes for both physics |
| 7001 | Noether | Named in memory of Emmy Noether (1882–1935), extraordinarily talented mathematician who exerted a gr |
| 7006 | Folco | Luigi Folco (b. 1965) is curator of meteorites at the Museo Nazionale dell'Artartide of the Universi |
| 7011 | Worley | Named in memory of Charles Edmund Worley (1935-1997), indefatigable observer and cataloguer of doubl |
| 7013 | Trachet | Journalist and science writer Tim Trachet (b. 1958) is honorary chairman and general secretary of th |
| 7020 | Yourcenar | Named in memory of the French-Belgian-American writer Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite de Crayencour |
| 7040 | Harwood | Named in memory of the American astronomer Margaret Harwood (1885–1979). Appointed the first directo |
| 7042 | Carver | Named in memory of George Washington Carver (1860-1943), credited by many as the first black America |
| 7043 | Godart | Named in honor of Odon Godart (1913-1996), Belgian mathematician who published distinguished papers |
| 7047 | Lundstrom | Named in honor of Magnus Lundström (1967– ), a former student of astronomy at Uppsala and at the Ger |
| 7048 | Chaussidon | Marc Chaussidon (b. 1961) is the Directeur de Recherches at CNRS, Centre de Recherches Petrographiqu |
| 7049 | Meibom | Anders Meibom (b. 1970) is a research scientist at the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle in Paris |
| 7059 | Van Dokkum | Dutch astronomer Pieter van Dokkum (b. 1972) studies the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time. A |
| 7061 | Pieri | David C. Pieri (b. 1949), a staff scientist in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at the Jet Prop |
| 7062 | Meslier | Named for the French priest and philosopher Jean Meslier (1664–1729). After his death, a 1200-page m |
| 7083 | Kant | Named for the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), foremost thinker of the Enlightenm |
| 7086 | Bopp | Named in honor of Tom Bopp, codiscoverer of comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), and his father, Frank Bopp. |
| 7095 | Lamettrie | Named in memory of the French medical doctor and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) |
| 7096 | Napier | Named for the Scottish astronomer William (Bill) M. Napier (1940– ), who has made seminal contributi |
| 7098 | Réaumur | René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) was a French scientist and important entomologist who |
| 7099 | Feuerbach | Named in memory of the famous German philosopher and moralist Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872). |
| 7099 | Feuerbach | Named in memory of the famous German philosopher and moralist Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872). |
| 7103 | Wichmann | Moritz Ludwig Georg Wichmann (1821-1859) was an ardent observer of minor planets. A student of Bess |
| 7109 | Heine | Named in memory of Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), the great German poet and writer, an outstanding mast |
| 7116 | Mentall | Named in honor of E. Talmadge Mentall (b. 1927), who retired from a drafting career to join Sky Publ |
| 7121 | Busch | Named for the German poet and draughtsman Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), who became world-renowned for h |
| 7124 | Glinos | Canadian amateur astronomer Tom Glinos (b. 1960) has contributed observations in several fields for |
| 7126 | Cureau | Named in memory of Marin Cureau de la Chambre (1594–1669), a doctor of medicine and author of severa |
| 7141 | Bettarini | Named in memory of Otello Bettarini (1905–1982), a pioneer who left great footprints in our way of l |
| 7142 | Spinoza | Named for the Dutch-Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677). He incurred the disapproval |
| 7147 | Feijth | Named in honor of Hendrik (Henk) Feijth (1944–1997), a devoted and true amateur astronomer: making v |
| 7150 | McKellar | In 1941, Andrew McKellar (1910-1960) measured the temperature of interstellar space as about 2.7 Kel |
| 7157 | Lofgren | Gary E. Lofgren (b. 1941) is a planetary scientist and curator of lunar materials at NASA's Johnson |
| 7162 | Sidwell | Named in honor of Daniel R. Sidwell (b. 1932), the facility operations manager of the Table Mountain |
| 7163 | Barenboim | Argentinian-born pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim (b. 1942) has been central to bringing class |
| 7165 | Pendleton | Named for astronomer Yvonne Jean Pendleton (1957– ) of the NASA Ames Research Center. She specialize |
| 7166 | Kennedy | Named in memory of Malcolm Kennedy (1944-1997), tireless and popular secretary of the Astronomical S |
| 7170 | Livesey | Ron Livesey (b. 1929) has had a major influence on amateur astronomy, particularly in his native Sco |
| 7172 | Multatuli | Named in memory of the great Dutch writer Multatuli (“I have suffered much”, pseudonym of Eduard Dou |
| 7173 | Sepkoski | Named in memory of paleontologist J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1948-1999). His far-reaching work made a maj |
| 7179 | Gassendi | Named for the French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). Originally trained in th |
| 7187 | Isobe | Syuzo Isobe (b. 1942), of the National Astronomical Observatory, has been instrumental in establishi |
| 7196 | Baroni | Named in honor of the amateur astronomer Sandro Baroni (1939– ). Since 1953 he has pursued many diff |
| 7225 | Huntress | Named in honor of Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. (b. 1942), planetary cosmochemist and highly regarded dire |
| 7230 | Lutz | Named in honor of Barry L. Lutz (b. 1944), professor of physics and astronomy and currently departme |
| 7231 | Porco | Named in honor of Carolyn C. Porco (b. 1954), planetary scientist at the University of Arizona. A p |
| 7239 | Mobberley | Named in honor of Martin P. Mobberley, photographer and astrometrist of comets, minor planets, varia |
| 7266 | Trefftz | Named in honor of the German astronomer Eleonore Trefftz (1920– ). Known for her work on physical pr |
| 7277 | Klass | Named in honor of Philip J. Klass (b. 1919), for more than 30 years the senior avionics editor of |
| 7279 | Hagfors | Named in honor of Tor Hagfors (b. 1930), in celebration of his 68th birthday and his retirement as d |
| 7285 | Seggewiss | Named in honor of Wilhelm Seggewiss (1937– ), since 1995 head of the Hoher List Observatory, on the |
| 7292 | Prosperin | Erik Prosperin (1739-1803), professor in astronomy at Uppsala Observatory during 1773-1798, calculat |
| 7296 | Lamarck | Named for Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French biologist, renowned for his idea that acquired t |
| 7314 | Pevsner | Named in memory of Antoine Pevsner (1886–1962), Russian-born French sculptor and painter. He and his |
| 7315 | Kolbe | Named in memory of the German sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877–1947). Kolbe was educated as a painter, but |
| 7316 | Hajdu | Named in memory of Etienne Hajdu (1907–1996), Roumanian-born sculptor who studied in Budapest and Vi |
| 7317 | Cabot | Named for Giovanni Caboto or John Cabot (1449/50–1498/99), who made the first recorded landfall in N |
| 7324 | Carret | Named in honor of Philip L. Carret (1896– ), on the occasion of his 101st birthday and the 80th anni |
| 7327 | Crawford | Named in honor of David L. Crawford (b. 1931), astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory reco |
| 7343 | Ockeghem | Named for the Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem (1420–1497), the most renowned polyphonist of the s |
| 7346 | Boulanger | Nicolas Boulanger (1722-1759), a geologist and one of the Encyclopedists, believed that the irration |
| 7355 | Bottke | Named in honor of William F. Bottke, Jr., known for his research on the collisional and dynamical ev |
| 7360 | Moberg | Named in memory of Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973), Swedish novelist and writer. Moberg mainly wrote abo |
| 7361 | Endres | Named for Michael Hart Endres, who as former site manager of the GEODSS project played a seminal rol |
| 7363 | Esquibel | Named in honor of Albert Esquibel, who has for 19 years been active in project management and electr |
| 7377 | Pizzarello | Sandra Pizzarello (b. 1933) is a professor of chemistry at Arizona State University. Along with col |
| 7393 | Luginbuhl | Christian B. Luginbuhl (b. 1955), of the U.S. Naval Observatory's Flagstaff Station, is largely resp |
| 7396 | Brusin | Named in honor of Silvia Rosa Brusin, head of one of the principal Italian scientific programs. She |
| 7400 | Lenau | Nikolaus Lenau (N. F. Niembsch von Strehlenau, 1802-1850) was an Austrian poet. Unable to settle do |
| 7401 | Toynbee | In his twelve-volume work A Study of History (1934-1961), renowned British historian Arnold J |
| 7412 | Linnaeus | Named in memory of the great Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707–1778). At an early age, Linnaeus |
| 7420 | Buffon | Named for the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–1788). In 1749 he started his |
| 7425 | Lessing | Named for Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German dramatist and writer on philosophy and aesthe |
| 7433 | Pellegrini | Named in memory of Guglielmo Pellegrini (1937–1990), an amateur astronomer who built or modified man |
| 7437 | Torricelli | Named in memory of Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), mathematician and physicist. In 1641 he met a |
| 7448 | Pöllath | Reinhard Pöllath (b. 1948), a professor of tax law at the University of Münster, is an authority on |
| 7449 | Döllen | Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Döllen (1820-1897), an astronomer at the Dorpat Observatory, was an assistan |
| 7450 | Shilling | Pavel L'vovich Shilling (1786-1837) was an outstanding Russian inventor and orientalist. In 1832 he |
| 7455 | Podosek | Frank A. Podosek (b. 1941) is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. His research cente |
| 7476 | Ogilsbie | Brian K. Ogilsbie (1970-1997) was a close friend of the discoverer through grade school and high sch |
| 7478 | Hasse | Named for Peter Hasse (1585–1640), the first well-known organist to be appointed at the famous Marie |
| 7489 | Oribe | Takaaki Oribe (b. 1972), researcher at Saji Observatory since its foundation in 1994, has contribute |
| 7500 | Sassi | Named in honor of Giorgio Sassi (1918– ), Italian amateur astronomer, co-founder of the Osservatorio |
| 7506 | Lub | Named in honor of Jan Lub (1946– ), Dutch astronomer in Leiden, on the occasion of his 51st birthday |
| 7508 | Icke | Named in honor of Vincent Icke (1946– ), Dutch astronomer in Leiden, on the occasion of his 51st bir |
| 7537 | Solvay | Named for the Belgian chemist and philantropist Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), prodigious industrialist, |
| 7548 | Engström | Named in memory of Albert Engström (1869-1940), Swedish artist and writer. Born in Lönneberga in th |
| 7549 | Woodard | Named for Adrian Russell Woodard, youngest grandson of the discoverers. |
| 7550 | Woolum | Dorothy S. Woolum (b. 1942) is professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. She is |
| 7552 | Sephton | Mark A. Sephton (b. 1966) is a researcher in organic geochemistry and meteoritics at Imperial Colleg |
| 7553 | Buie | Named in honor of Marc W. Buie (b. 1958), an astronomer at Lowell Observatory, who has made many imp |
| 7560 | Spudis | Named in honor of Paul D. Spudis, planetary geologist and expert on lunar geology, from the multi-ri |
| 7565 | Zipfel | Jutta Zipfel (b. 1964) is curator of meteorites at Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg in Frankfurt. Her |
| 7586 | Bismarck | Named in memory of Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian prime minister and |
| 7587 | Weckmann | Named for the North German organist Matthias Weckmann (1619–1674). Appointed organist at St. Jacobi’ |
| 7620 | Willaert | Named for the Flemish composer Adrian Willaert (1485–1562). From 1527 Willaert was a musician, condu |
| 7621 | Sweelinck | Named for the Dutch composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621). At the age of 18, S |
| 7622 | Pergolesi | Named for the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736). He was a conductor in Naples |
| 7623 | Stamitz | Named for the German-Bohemian violinist and composer Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717–1757). He pla |
| 7636 | Comba | Named in honor of Paul G. Comba (b. 1926), who gave up a career in celestial mechanics and astronomy |
| 7638 | Gladman | Named in honor of Brett Gladman (b. 1966), a Canadian astronomer and dynamicist who has made importa |
| 7639 | Offutt | Named in honor of Warren Offutt (b. 1928), on the occasion of his 70th birthday, 1998 Feb. 13. Afte |
| 7640 | Marzari | Named in honor of Francesco Marzari (b. 1961), an Italian planetary scientist at the University of P |
| 7651 | Villeneuve | Named in honor of Don Villeneuve, anthropologist and friend of the discoverer. (M 30478) |
| 7661 | Reincken | Named for the North German organist Johann Adam Reincken (1623–1722), a central figure of Hamburg’s |
| 7690 | Sackler | Named in honor of Raymond and Beverly Sackler, wise, perceptive and generous supporters of science a |
| 7691 | Brady | Named in honor of Charles E. “Chuck” Brady, Jr. (b. 1951), captain in the U.S. Navy, NASA astronaut, |
| 7696 | Liebe | Bodo Liebe, a professor at the University of Siegen, started a program in astronomy and established |
| 7698 | Schweitzer | Named in memory of Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German theologian, doctor and philosopher, organis |
| 7718 | Desnoux | Named in honor of Valerie Desnoux, talented amateur astronomer. Together with J. P. Rozelot and J. R |
| 7720 | Lepaute | Named after Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788), extraordinarily talented French mathematician. The as |
| 7721 | Andrillat | Named in honor of Yvette Marie Josette (b. 1925), French spectroscopist who works mainly on infrared |
| 7722 | Firneis | Named in honor of Maria Gertrude Firneis (b. 1947), a professor of astronomy at the University of Vi |
| 7723 | Lugger | Phyllis Lugger (b. 1954), on the faculty of Indiana University, is known for her work on the luminos |
| 7724 | Moroso | For over 30 years Pascuala Moroso (1934-1996) and her husband, Rafael Villalobos (1930-1998), were i |
| 7728 | Giblin | Named in honor of Ian Giblin (b. 1969), a British physicist who has performed a number of laboratory |
| 7735 | Scorzelli | Rosa Scorzelli (b. 1940) is a meteoriticist at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. Her rese |
| 7738 | Heyman | Named in honor of I. Michael Heyman (b. 1930), secretary and linchpin of the Smithsonian Institution |
| 7740 | Petit | Named in honor of the French astronomer Jean-Marc Petit (b. 1961) for his work on the dynamics of pl |
| 7750 | McEwen | Named in honor of Alfred McEwen for his significant contributions to planetary geology in the fields |
| 7757 | Kameya | Radio astronomer Osamu Kameya (b. 1956) is a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of |
| 7763 | Crabeels | Henri Crabeels (b. 1904) is an internationally known organist and conductor in Antwerp. This minor |
| 7781 | Townsend | Named in honor of Charles Townsend, a retired laser physicist and community-college instructor of as |
| 7784 | Watterson | Bill Watterson (b. 1958) is the author of the iconic cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes. Syndicated fr |
| 7794 | Sanvito | Named in honor of Roberto di San Vito, amateur astronomer. Strongly committed to astronomy and astr |
| 7804 | Boesgaard | Named in honor of Ann Merchant Boesgaard (b. 1939), astronomer at the University of Hawaii, well-kno |
| 7807 | Grier | Jennifer Grier (b. 1968) is involved in numerous aspects of planetary science education and research |
| 7818 | Muirhead | Named in honor of Brian K. Muirhead, flight system manager and deputy project manager of the Jet Pro |
| 7824 | Lynch | Named in honor of William Lynch III of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an outstanding model of eff |
| 7829 | Jaroff | Named in honor of Leon Jaroff (b. 1927), science journalist with a long, distinctive association wit |
| 7857 | Lagerros | Named in honor of Johan S. V. Lagerros (b. 1968) to celebrate the completion of his Ph.D. thesis tit |
| 7860 | Zahnle | Named in honor of Kevin J. Zahnle (b. 1955), senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, |
| 7861 | Messenger | Scott R. Messenger (b. 1969) is a space scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He pioneered rese |
| 7863 | Turnbull | Margaret A. (“Maggie”) Turnbull (b. 1975), a graduate student in astronomy, has among her goals the |
| 7866 | Sicoli | Named in honor of Piero Sicoli (b. 1954), leader of a group of amateur astronomers who have, for som |
| 7868 | Barker | Named in honor of Edwin S. Barker (b. 1940), a research scientist at the McDonald Observatory of the |
| 7871 | Tunder | Named for the organist Franz Tunder (1614–1667), founder of the North German school of organ composi |
| 7885 | Levine | A ballerina, an astrophysicist and a yoga instructor, Joanna L. Levine (b. 1975) is an inspiration t |
| 7886 | Redman | Named in memory of Roderick Oliver Redman (1905-1975), professor of astronomy and longtime director |
| 7894 | Rogers | John H. Rogers (b. 1952), director of the British Astronomical Association's Jupiter section since 1 |
| 7902 | Hanff | Named in memory of the German organist Johann Nicolaus Hanff (1665–1711). In 1696 he became organist |
| 7904 | Morrow | Named in honor of Walter W. Morrow, Jr. (1928– ), for his exceptional leadership as director of the |
| 7906 | Melanchton | Named after Philipp Melanchton (1497-1560), German reformer who worked closely with Martin Luther. |
| 7908 | Zwingli | Named in memory of Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), Swiss reformer of the church. He was originally a Ca |
| 7909 | Ziffer | Julie Ziffer (b. 1974) is a professor of physics at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME. |
| 7917 | Hammergren | Mark Hammergren (b. 1964) is an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. His research invest |
| 7918 | Berrilli | Francesco Berrilli (b. 1958) is a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Roma “Tor |
| 7921 | Huebner | Named in honor of Walter F. Huebner (b. 1928), for his seminal contributions to small bodies studies |
| 7923 | Chyba | Named in honor of Christopher F. Chyba (b. 1959), who holds the Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Li |
| 7925 | Shelus | Named in honor of Peter J. Shelus (b. 1942), who has ably managed the Lunar and Satellite Laser Rang |
| 7928 | Bijaoui | Named after Albert Bijaoui, astronomer at the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur and long-time supporter |
| 7932 | Plimpton | George Plimpton (1927-2003) was an American author, editor, actor and all-round Renaissance man. As |
| 7939 | Asphaug | Named in honor of Erik Asphaug (b. 1961), currently in the Earth Sciences Department at the Universi |
| 7947 | Toland | Named in memory of the controversial freethinker John Toland (1670–1722). In 1696 he published his c |
| 7948 | Whitaker | Ewen A. Whitaker (b. 1922) was a founding member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He particip |
| 7958 | Leakey | Named for Mary Leakey (1913-1996), her husband Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and her son Richard Leakey ( |
| 7960 | Condorcet | Named for the French philosopher of the Enlightenment, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marqui |
| 7971 | Meckbach | Named in memory of Wolfgang Meckbach (1919-1998), microwave spectroscopist who emigrated from German |
| 7972 | Mariotti | Named in memory of Jean-Marie Mariotti (1955-1998), French astronomer, most recently in Garching at |
| 7974 | Vermeesch | Theo Vermeesch (b. 1930), since 1968 the first director of the Volkssterrenwacht Simon Stevin in Hoe |
| 7983 | Festin | Named in honor of Leif Festin (b. 1967) to celebrate the completion of his Ph.D. thesis on the faint |
| 7985 | Nedelcu | Dan Alin Nedelcu (b. 1976) is a research scientist at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Aca |
| 7988 | Pucacco | Giuseppe Pucacco (b. 1956) is a researcher in the Physics Department of the University of Roma “Tor |
| 7992 | Yozan | Uesugi Yozan (1751-1822), the ninth lord of Yamagata prefecture's Yonezawa Castle, was the greatest |
| 7998 | Gonczi | Named in honor of Robert Gonczi (b. 1945), a French dynamicist who has carried out important researc |
| 8003 | Kelvin | William Thomson (Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907), well known for the absolute temperature scale, contributed |
| 8009 | Béguin | Named in honor of the family of the discoverer's wife, Monick, on the occasion of her 50th birthday. |
| 8010 | Böhnhardt | Named in honor of Hermann Böhnhardt (b. 1955), astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, know |
| 8053 | Kleist | Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a prolific writer who was not known during his lifetime. He tra |
| 8054 | Brentano | Named for the German Romantic poet Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), esteemed in his time by important G |
| 8055 | Arnim | Achim (Ludwig Joachim) von Arnim (1781-1831) is one of the well-known German Romantics. Although he |
| 8056 | Tieck | Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the great Romantic poets and writers. He became friends with Br |
| 8058 | Zuckmayer | Named for Jewish playwright Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977). He wrote many comedies, his most famous pla |
| 8059 | Deliyannis | Constantine Deliyannis (b. 1959), on the faculty of Indiana University, has studied the evolution of |
| 8070 | DeMeo | Named in honor of Francesca E. DeMeo (b. 1984), a postdoctoral researcher at MIT who completed her 2 |
| 8071 | Simonelli | Named in honor of Damon P. Simonelli (b. 1959), planetary scientist at Cornell University and an exp |
| 8074 | Slade | Martin A. Slade (b. 1942) is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His three decades of cont |
| 8076 | Foscarini | Paolo Antonio Foscarini (1565-1616) was an Italian Carmelite father, philosopher and scientist, whos |
| 8077 | Hoyle | Fred Hoyle (b. 1915) is the leading proponent of steady-state cosmology. He predicted an excited st |
| 8082 | Haynes | Norman R. Haynes (b. 1936) spent a 41-year career in the leadership of planetary exploration. He wo |
| 8110 | Heath | Alan W. Heath (b. 1931) is a British planetary observer. He was director of the British Astronomical |
| 8121 | Altdorfer | Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538) is one of the painters of the “Donauschool”. He created the first |
| 8122 | Holbein | Named after Hans Holbein Sr. (c. 1465-1524) and Hans Holbein Jr. (c. 1497-1543), German painters. H |
| 8124 | Guardi | Painter Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) was influenced by Pietro Longhi and Canaletto. Guardi's style |
| 8127 | Beuf | French astronomer Francisco Beuf (1834-1889) was invited by the Argentinian government in 1880 to pa |
| 8131 | Scanlon | Named in honor of Leo J. Scanlon (b. 1903), prominent amateur whose interest in astronomy was sparke |
| 8136 | Landis | Rob R. Landis (b. 1963) is a NEO Program Officer at NASA Headquarters. Rob's lifelong passion for as |
| 8140 | Hardersen | Paul S. Hardersen (b. 1965) is a professor and observatory director in the Department of Space Studi |
| 8148 | Golding | Margarette Oliver Golding (1881-1939) founded the Inner Wheel movement in 1924, one of the largest w |
| 8149 | Ruff | Jan Ruff (b. 1949) is the very capable, warm-spirited and enthusiastic chief of the Office of Public |
| 8154 | Stahl | Named in memory of the German physician and chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734), who developed the |
| 8161 | Newman | Named in honor of Constance B. Newman (b. 1935), Smithsonian Institution undersecretary whose unwave |
| 8165 | Gnädig | Named in honor of Arno Gnädig (b. 1956), German amateur astronomer and identifier of minor planets. |
| 8169 | Mirabeau | Named in memory of French politician and orator Honoré-Gabriel Mirabeau (1749-1791), one of the grea |
| 8175 | Boerhaave | Named in memory of the Dutch physician and professor of medicine Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738). He |
| 8190 | Bouguer | Named in memory of the French scientist Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758), the founder of astronomical phot |
| 8191 | Mersenne | Named for Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), French mathematician and philosopher, best known for his disco |
| 8202 | Gooley | Named in honor of Barry Gooley (b. 1956), president of the astronomy shop Kokusai Kohki in Kyoto. A |
| 8205 | Van Dijck | Named in memory of the Flemish painter Anthony Van Dijck (Van Dyck or Vandyke; 1599–1641), after Rub |
| 8216 | Melosh | H. Jay Melosh (b. 1947), of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has worked on the formation of impac |
| 8218 | Hosty | John Graham Hosty (1949-2001) was the visual discoverer of the nova HS Sge from Huddersfield, West Y |
| 8221 | La Condamine | Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), a French naturalist and mathematician, went to Peru (1735 |
| 8223 | Bradshaw | Named for the Bradshaw mountains, which lie to the south of Prescott, Arizona. This area of sparsel |
| 8225 | Emerson | Named in memory of David Emerson (d. 1996), lecturer in astrophysics at the Royal Observatory, Edinb |
| 8235 | Fragonard | Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a student of Boucher. Both teacher and pupil painted the colo |
| 8237 | Constable | Named for the English painter John Constable (1776-1837), known for his landscapes painted directly |
| 8238 | Courbet | Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was an autodidact who studied nature and the great paintings in the Louv |
| 8239 | Signac | Paul Signac (1863-1935) worked together with Seurat to develop the technique of pointillism. For hi |
| 8240 | Matisse | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. After traveling through Europ |
| 8245 | Molnar | Lawrence A. Molnar (b. 1959) is a professor of physics and astronomy and Observatory Director at Cal |
| 8253 | Brunetto | Rosario Brunetto (b. 1980) is an astronomer at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, Franc |
| 8255 | Masiero | Joseph Masiero (b. 1982) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. H |
| 8260 | Momcheva | Bulgarian astronomer Ivelina Momcheva (b. 1980) is known for her research on gravitational lensing a |
| 8262 | Carcich | Named in honor of Brian T. Carcich (b. 1956), developer of innovative computer software at Cornell U |
| 8270 | Winslow | Named in honor of John Seymour Winslow, a friend of the discoverer's husband, Ron, since grade schoo |
| 8291 | Bingham | Hiram Bingham (1885-1956), a member of the history faculty at Yale University, went searching for th |
| 8310 | Seelos | Named in honor of Frank P. Seelos IV who, as a student at Wolford College, participated in the 1998 |
| 8320 | van Zee | Liese van Zee (b. 1970), on the faculty of Indiana University, has investigated the links between st |
| 8323 | Krimigis | Named in honor of Stamatios M. (Tom) Krimigis (b. 1938), head of the Space Department of the Applied |
| 8328 | Uyttenhove | Jozef Uyttenhove (b. 1944), an authority on the history of the exact sciences during the nineteenth |
| 8329 | Speckman | Mark Speckman (b. 1955), football coach at Willamette University, was born without hands. He has tu |
| 8330 | Fitzroy | British Naval Officer, hydrographer and meteorologist Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) was captain of the |
| 8331 | Dawkins | Richard Dawkins (b. 1941), chaired professor at Oxford University, is the author of the seminal work |
| 8335 | Sarton | Belgian-born mathematician George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956) moved to the U.S. in 1915. Founder |
| 8340 | Mumma | A researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Michael J. Mumma (b. 1941) has identified H |
| 8357 | O'Connor | Named in honor of J. Dennis O'Connor (b. 1942), internationally acknowledged biological scientist, p |
| 8368 | Lamont | Johann von Lamont (1805-1879) was born in Scotland but moved to Bavaria to be educated. He became di |
| 8370 | Vanlindt | Marianne Van Lindt (b. 1941) is a well-known Belgian artist of impressionistic aquarels and oil pain |
| 8378 | Sweeney | During 1990-2000, Donal F. Sweeney (b. 1933) was director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Occupat |
| 8381 | Hauptmann | Named for the dramatist and writer Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), a leading personality in the field |
| 8391 | Kring | David A. Kring (b. 1961) of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is a prolific geologist and meteoriti |
| 8395 | Rembaut | Named in memory of Peter Rembaut (1966-1997), industrial engineer at the electronic laboratory at th |
| 8398 | Rubbia | Named in honor of the Italian physicist Carlo Rubbia (b. 1934), winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in ph |
| 8401 | Assirelli | Even outside Italy, Italian photographer Giuseppe Assirelli (1950-1998) was well known for his exhib |
| 8407 | Houlahan | Named in honor of Padraig Houlahan (b. 1958). Although Houlahan studied astronomy, he has worked ma |
| 8408 | Strom | At the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Robert G. Strom (b. 1933) studied the cratering record on the |
| 8430 | Florey | Named in memory of Howard Walter Florey (1898–1968), celebrated pathologist, born and educated in So |
| 8447 | Cornejo | Antonio Cornejo (b. 1930) was the founder and director for over 30 years of the Galileo Galilei Plan |
| 8452 | Clay | Named in honor of Landon and Livinia Clay, steadfast friends of science and the arts, Harvard Univer |
| 8464 | Polishook | David L. Polishook (b. 1976) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 8465 | Bancelin | David Bancelin (b. 1978) is an astronomer at the Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephe |
| 8466 | Leyrat | Cedric Leyrat (b. 1978) is an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in Meudon whose research focuses o |
| 8474 | Rettig | Terrence W. Rettig (b. 1946) is a planetary astronomer and educator at the University of Notre Dame |
| 8488 | d'Argens | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Marquis d´Argens (1703-1771) was a French writer and freethinker who spent 25 |
| 8515 | Corvan | Patrick G. Corvan (b. 1940) has links with Armagh Observatory dating back to his schooldays. He is |
| 8534 | Knutsson | Named in memory of Gösta Knutsson (1908-1973), Swedish author and radio producer who introduced quiz |
| 8540 | Ardeberg | Arne Ardeberg (b. 1940), professor emeritus of astronomy at Lund Observatory, was director of the Eu |
| 8545 | McGee | Hazel McGee was meetings secretary of the British Astronomical Association from 1988 to 1993 and has |
| 8561 | Sikoruk | Leonid Leonidovich Sikoruk (b. 1937) is an astronomy popularizer, telescope builder, astrophotograph |
| 8580 | Pinsky | Named in honor of Robert Pinsky (b. 1940), poet laureate of the United States since 1997. Besides s |
| 8583 | Froberger | Named for Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), organist and the foremost German keyboard composer of |
| 8583 | Froberger | Named for Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667), organist and the foremost German keyboard composer of |
| 8604 | Vanier | Jean Vanier (b. 1928) is a philosopher, theologian, author and teacher. As the founder of two global |
| 8610 | Goldhaber | Brothers Maurice (b. 1911) and Gerson (b. 1924) Goldhaber contributed to 20th-century physics with d |
| 8616 | Fogelquist | Named in honor of Rune Fogelquist (b. 1924) for his inspiring activities in astronomy popularization |
| 8632 | Egleston | Margaret Ericksen Egleston (b. 1943) has since 1984 been a scientific programmer at the Harvard-Smit |
| 8634 | Neubauer | Fritz Neubauer (b. 1940) is a pioneer in space science. His main fields are planetary magnetic fiel |
| 8666 | Reuter | Named for the German poet and social critic Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), co-founder of the new Low Germ |
| 8667 | Fontane | Named for Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death. He bro |
| 8672 | Morse | Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter and inventor who in 1838 developed th |
| 8676 | Lully | Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), an Italian-French composer, created a very lively style of composit |
| 8677 | Charlier | Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier (1862-1934), professor of astronomy at Uppsala during 1890-1897 and lat |
| 8683 | Sjölander | Nils Göran Sjölander (b. 1951), formerly librarian at Uppsala Observatory, studies dwarf galaxies an |
| 8685 | Fauré | Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was a French composer who revolutionized French music by using daring harm |
| 8686 | Akenside | Mark Akenside (1721-1770) was a British poet and physician who studied medicine at the University of |
| 8688 | Delaunay | Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816-1872) was a French mathematician and astronomer famous for his Théo |
| 8690 | Swindle | Timothy D. Swindle (b. 1955), of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, is a meteoriticist who has spec |
| 8695 | Bergvall | Nils Bergvall (b. 1945), astronomer at Uppsala Observatory, studies galaxy evolution and is also int |
| 8697 | Olofsson | Kjell Olofsson (b. 1955) is the director of undergraduate studies at the Uppsala Observatory and stu |
| 8700 | Gevaert | Lieven Gevaert (1868-1935) was a Belgian industrialist who established the “N.V. Gevaert Photo-Produ |
| 8710 | Hawley | Named in honor of the discoverer's friend and mentor, Walter N. Hawley, a physics and astronomy teac |
| 8722 | Schirra | Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (b. 1923), the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraf |
| 8729 | Descour | Anne S. Descour (b. 1968) is an imaginative and energetic computer scientist at the University of Ar |
| 8734 | Warner | Named in honor of Brian D. Warner (b. 1952). For more than eight years he has published the Mino |
| 8745 | Delaney | Named in honor of William P. Delaney, director's fellow at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. This is a don |
| 8780 | Forte | Juan Carlos Forte (b. 1949) has conducted most of his professional work at the La Plata Observatory. |
| 8788 | Labeyrie | Named in honor of Catherine and Antoine Labeyrie. Catherine was the hypersensitization expert at the |
| 8796 | Sonnett | Sarah Sonnett (b. 1984) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Through light cu |
| 8797 | Duffard | Rene Duffard (b. 1971) is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Instituto Astrofisica Andalucia i |
| 8798 | Tarantino | Frederick A. Tarantino (b. 1955) is president of the Universities Space Research Association, whose |
| 8799 | Barnouin | Olivier Barnouin (b. 1967) is a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| 8800 | Brophy | John R. Brophy (b. 1956) is a Principal Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a key develope |
| 8801 | Nugent | Carolyn R. Nugent (b. 1984) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her rese |
| 8802 | Negley | Scott Negley, Jr. (b. 1939) is a long-time educator of astronomy. Through his work as a high school |
| 8803 | Kolyer | Deborah E. Schwartz Kolyer (b. 1960) has been a supporting manager of science at the SETI Institute |
| 8804 | Eliason | Eric M. Eliason (b. 1949), an expert in image-processing techniques and image analysis for the U.S. |
| 8807 | Schenk | Paul M. Schenk (b. 1958) is a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, spe |
| 8808 | Luhmann | Janet G. Luhmann (b. 1946) is a Senior Space Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. She u |
| 8832 | Altenrath | Named in memory of Henricus Hubertus Altenrath (1832-1892), initiator and first director of the “Nij |
| 8867 | Tubbiolo | Andrew F. Tubbiolo is a multitalented engineer and enthusiast of space flight working at the Univers |
| 8868 | Hjorter | Olof Petrus Hjorter (1696-1750), Uppsala professor of astronomy in 1732-1737 and after 1746, indepen |
| 8870 | von Zeipel | Hugo von Zeipel (1873-1959), professor of astronomy at Uppsala University during 1911-1920, is still |
| 8871 | Svanberg | Gustaf Svanberg (1802-1882), professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1842 to 1878, built t |
| 8875 | Fernie | J. Donald Fernie (b. 1933), professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Toronto and former |
| 8881 | Prialnik | Dina Prialnik is a leading expert in the modeling of the thermal evolution of cometary nuclei. She |
| 8885 | Sette | Named in honor of Giancarlo Sette (b. 1927), Italian amateur astronomer. Since 1950 he has focused |
| 8887 | Scheeres | Named in honor of Daniel J. Scheeres (b. 1963), currently in the Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| 8888 | Tartaglia | Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557) was an Italian mathematician, engineer and topographer. Known |
| 8890 | Montaigne | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was a French philosopher much preoccupied by the decline of intelle |
| 8925 | Boattini | Named in honor of Andrea Boattini (b. 1969). After developing a growing interest in minor planets, |
| 8944 | Ortigara | Mount Ortigara, located near the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory, is one of the highest peaks in th |
| 8954 | Baral | Jessika Baral (b. 1999) is a finalist in the 2012 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition f |
| 8993 | Ingstad | Helge Ingstad (1899-2001) was a pioneer explorer and archeologist. Foremost among his many achieveme |
| 9001 | Slettebak | Arne Slettebak (1925-1999) was for 16 years chair of the department of astronomy of Ohio State Unive |
| 9012 | Benner | Lance A. M. Benner (b. 1964) is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His hard work and self |
| 9013 | Sansaturio | Maria Eugenia Sansaturio (b. 1959), a mathematician at the University of Valladolid, has used new al |
| 9018 | Galache | José Luis Galache (b. 1975) has worked at the Minor Planet Center (MPC) since 2009 and handles, amon |
| 9022 | Drake | Michael J. Drake (b. 1946), popular director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Labo |
| 9026 | Denevi | Brett W. Denevi (b. 1980) is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics L |
| 9052 | Uhland | Named for the German poet Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), best known for lyric poetry and ballads |
| 9055 | Edvardsson | Uppsala astronomer Bengt Edvardsson (b. 1956) has made significant contributions to the study of abu |
| 9059 | Dumas | Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), the grandson of a French marquis and the son of a French general in Nap |
| 9069 | Hovland | Larry E. Hovland (b. 1947) is a talented senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsibl |
| 9079 | Gesner | Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) was a versatile Swiss scientist well-known for his research on animals and |
| 9122 | Hunten | Donald M. Hunten (b. 1925), of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has studied the atmospheres of th |
| 9130 | Galois | Named in memory of the famous French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832), well known for his c |
| 9135 | Lacaille | Named in memory of Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762), French astronomer known as the “father of |
| 9136 | Lalande | Named in memory of Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande (1732-1807), famous French astronomer who com |
| 9137 | Remo | Named in honor of John L. Remo (1941– ), U.S. physicist who has contributed to laser resonator optic |
| 9138 | Murdoch | Named in memory of Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), prolific novelist and philosopher, whose 26 morali |
| 9141 | Kapur | Named in honor of Shekhar Kapur (1945– ), Indian actor and Bombay film director whose recent acclaim |
| 9143 | Burkhead | Martin S. Burkhead (b. 1933), emeritus professor at Indiana University, contributed fundamental work |
| 9152 | Combe | Jean-Philippe Combe (b. 1977) is a research scientist on the Dawn mission team analyzing the mineral |
| 9159 | McDonnell | J. A. M. (“Tony”) McDonnell (b. 1938) is recognized for his research on cosmic dust. With colleague |
| 9161 | Beaufort | Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) was an admiral of the British Navy who devised the scale for classifyin |
| 9164 | Colbert | Edwin H. Colbert (b. 1905) is a distinguished U.S. vertebrate paleontologist who has made major cont |
| 9165 | Raup | David M. Raup (b. 1933), paleontologist and biological historian at the University of Chicago, is a |
| 9175 | Graun | Ken Graun (b. 1955) has written two astronomical books. What's Out Tonight? is a major compi |
| 9189 | Hölderlin | Named for the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), who lived mainly in the Swabian town Tübi |
| 9189 | Hölderlin | Named for the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), who lived mainly in the Swabian town Tübi |
| 9204 | Mörike | Named for the Swabian poet Eduard Mörike (1804-1875), one of the great German lyric poets. The wond |
| 9211 | Neese | Trained in stellar astronomy, Carol Lynn Neese (b. 1958) turned to solar system studies in 1992, joi |
| 9236 | Obermair | Named in honor of the Austrian amateur astronomer Erwin Obermair (1946– ), who, together with the di |
| 9240 | Nassau | Jason J. Nassau (1893-1965) was director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory and professor at Case |
| 9246 | Niemeyer | In 1957, Oscar Niemeyer (b. 1907) became the chief architect of Brazil's new capital (Brasilia), des |
| 9248 | Sauer | Named in honor of Carl G. Sauer, Jr., a principal flight mechanics engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion |
| 9250 | Chamberlin | Named in honor of Alan B. Chamberlin, a senior engineer within the Navigation and Flight Mechanics S |
| 9251 | Harch | Named in honor of the Cornell University scientist Ann P. Harch, an expert in the design and executi |
| 9252 | Goddard | Named in memory of the American rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945). Beginning in 1906, Go |
| 9253 | Oberth | Named in memory of the German pioneer of space flight Hermann J. Oberth (1894-1989). In his 1923 wo |
| 9265 | Ekman | Agnita (b. 1945) and Arne (b. 1945) Ekman work for the National Encyclopedia of Sweden. Arne was fo |
| 9271 | Trimble | Virginia Louise Trimble (b. 1943) is a highly perceptive commentator on the state of astronomy, rega |
| 9273 | Schloerb | University of Massachusetts astronomer Frederick Peter Schloerb (b. 1952) is known for his comparati |
| 9275 | Persson | Jøran Persson (1530-1568) worked for Swedish king Erik XIV as counselor and prosecutor. Although he |
| 9279 | Seager | Sara Seager (b. 1971) is a professor of physics and planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute |
| 9281 | Weryk | Robert J. Weryk (b. 1981) is a researcher at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, w |
| 9285 | Le Corre | Lucille Le Corre (b. 1983) is an associate researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson. |
| 9287 | Klima | Rachel L. Klima (b. 1974) is a planetary geologist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics L |
| 9298 | Geake | At the University of Manchester's Institute of Science and Technology, John E. Geake (1925-1998) was |
| 9305 | Hazard | British radio astronomer Cyril Hazard (b. 1928) held positions in the U.K., U.S. and Australia. His |
| 9315 | Weigel | Named for the German mathematician and astronomer Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) on the occasion of the 3 |
| 9319 | Hartzell | Christine M. Hartzell (b. 1988) is an assistant professor in aerospace engineering at the University |
| 9322 | Lindenau | Named for the German scientist, statesman and promotor of the arts Bernhard August von Lindenau (177 |
| 9327 | Duerbeck | Hilmar W. Duerbeck (b. 1948) is an astronomer working at Hoher List (Bonn), Muenster (Westphalia) an |
| 9334 | Moesta | Carl Wilhelm Moesta (1825-1884) was a German mathematician and astronomer who observed stars, planet |
| 9344 | Klopstock | Named for Friedrich Gottfried Klopstock (1724-1803), one of the most famous German poets between th |
| 9349 | Lucas | Named in memory of François Edouard Anatole Lucas (1842-1891), French number theorist, best known fo |
| 9351 | Neumayer | Georg von Neumayer (1826-1909), German geophysicist and hydrographer, was the founder of the German |
| 9364 | Clusius | Named for Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Escluse; 1526-1609), a Flemish botanist well-known for his c |
| 9389 | Condillac | Named in memory of the philosopher and priest Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780), the leading a |
| 9391 | Slee | Bruce Slee (b. 1924) is one of the pioneers of radio astronomy. After independently discovering sol |
| 9398 | Bidelman | William P. Bidelman (b. 1918) was director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory during 1970--1975 an |
| 9399 | Pesch | Peter Pesch (b. 1934), director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory during 1975--1994 and professor |
| 9403 | Sanduleak | Nicholas Sanduleak (1933-1990) was a staff scientist at the Warner and Swasey Observatory from 1967 |
| 9413 | Eichendorff | Named for the Silesian poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857). He studied philosophy and |
| 9420 | Dewar | James Dewar (1842-1923), Scottish-born chemist and physicist, studied chemical reactions at low (cry |
| 9423 | Abt | Helmut Abt (b. 1925) is one of the founders of Kitt Peak National Observatory and is known for his f |
| 9425 | Marconcini | Massimiliano Marconcini (1955) is an amateur astronomer of the Montelupo group. A 1988 architecture |
| 9427 | Righini | Named in memory of Guglielmo Righini (b. 1908), Italian solar physicist. In 1934 he went to Utrecht |
| 9445 | Charpentier | Named for the French musician Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), composer of operas and church mu |
| 9446 | Cicero | Named in memory of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and writer. |
| 9460 | McGlynn | Named in honor of Thomas A. McGlynn (b. 1956), currently the chief archive scientist for the High En |
| 9463 | Criscione | Lisa Marie Criscione (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2012 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science compet |
| 9468 | Brewer | Named in honor of James Brewer, ESO astronomer working on stellar populations and carbon stars. Usi |
| 9470 | Jussieu | Named in memory of Bernard (1699–1777), Joseph (1704–1779), Antoine-Laurent (1748–1836) and Adrien-L |
| 9483 | Chagas | Named in memory of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), Brazilian epidemiologist who first described the agent |
| 9487 | Kupe | Named for the legendary sailor and explorer whose discovery of the islands now known as New Zealand |
| 9491 | Thooft | Gerardus 't Hooft (b. 1946) is professor of physics at University of Utrecht. Together with his col |
| 9492 | Veltman | Martinus J. G. Veltman (b. 1931) is professor of physics at the Universities of Utrecht and Michigan |
| 9493 | Enescu | Romanian composer George Enescu (1881-1955), a student of Massenet and Fauré, achieved a synthesis b |
| 9494 | Donici | Nicolae Donici (1875-1957), a founding member of the IAU and the first representative there of Roman |
| 9495 | Eminescu | The Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) tackled the essential problems of human existence---lif |
| 9496 | Ockels | Wubbo J. Ockels (b. 1946) became the first Dutch astronaut in space during the Spacelab D-1 mission. |
| 9507 | Gottfried | Gottfried of Brabant, brother of Elsa, was changed into a swan by Ortrud, wife of Telramund. After |
| 9515 | Dubner | Gloria Dubner (b. 1950) has conducted most of her professional work at the Argentinian Institute of |
| 9524 | O'Rourke | Laurence O'Rourke (b. 1970) is a research scientist at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid |
| 9528 | Küppers | Michael Küppers (b. 1967) is a planetary scientist at the European Space Agency who has helped orche |
| 9529 | Protopapa | Silvia Protopapa (b. 1981) is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland. Her re |
| 9536 | Statler | Thomas S. Statler (b. 1961) is a professor of astronomy at Ohio University whose research contributi |
| 9537 | Nolan | Michael C. Nolan (b. 1963), a scientist at the Arecibo Observatory, has significantly advanced our t |
| 9541 | Magri | Christopher Magri (b. 1961) is a scientist at the University of Maine at Farmington. A former galac |
| 9553 | Colas | François Colas (b. 1959) is an expert on modern solar-system astrometry at the Institut de Mécanique |
| 9554 | Dumont | Meudon mathematician and astronomer Simone Dumont (b. 1924) has studied T Tauri stars, active galaxi |
| 9560 | Anguita | Claudio Anguita (1930-2000), an astrometrist at the Universidad de Chile, was critically helpful dur |
| 9561 | van Eyck | Jan van Eyck (1395-1441) was a Flemish painter best known for The Adoration of the Lamb (1432 |
| 9562 | Memling | Hans Memling (1430-1494) was a Flemish painter from the famous Bruges School of painting. Kn |
| 9577 | Gropius | Named for the German architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969), born in Berlin and one of the most fascin |
| 9584 | Louchheim | For many years Thomas Louchheim (b. 1957), of Tucson, Arizona, has been a highly regarded counsellor |
| 9587 | Bonpland | Aimé Jacques Goujard Bonpland (1773-1858) was a physician with a profound interest in botany. In 179 |
| 9588 | Quesnay | François Quesnay (1694-1774) was a physician who started, together with Mirabeau, the economic movem |
| 9589 | Deridder | Remi Adolph De Ridder (1843-1930) was a professor of law at Ghent University. In 1881 he was appoin |
| 9592 | Clairaut | Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713-1765) was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He predicted |
| 9594 | Garstang | Roy Henry Garstang (1925-2009) made basic contributions in atomic physics and astronomical spectrosc |
| 9610 | Vischer | Named for Peter Vischer the Elder (c. 1460-1529), the greatest German brass-caster master in the Mid |
| 9614 | Cuvier | Georges Baron Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French zoologist who established the sciences of comparative |
| 9615 | Hemerijckx | Frans Hemerijckx (1902-1969) was a medical doctor who went in 1929 to Africa and India to fight agai |
| 9626 | Stanley | John Stanley (1713-1786), blind from the age of three, became a well-known organist and composer of |
| 9629 | Servet | Miguel Serveto y Reves (Michel Servet, 1511-1553) was a doctor of medicine and a theologian living i |
| 9630 | Castellion | Sébastien Castellion (1515-1563) was a French humanist well-known for his generosity and aversion t |
| 9633 | Cotur | Named in honor of Peter Cotur (1944– ), scientific journalist at the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws in |
| 9638 | Fuchs | Named in memory of the German botanist and physician Leonhard Fuchs (1501–1566), whose botanical wor |
| 9639 | Scherer | Named in honor of Marc Scherer (1944– ), a well-known scientist at The Belgian Institute for Space A |
| 9640 | Lippens | Named in honor of Carlos Lippens (1945– ), well known for his work on trace substances in the earth’ |
| 9641 | Demaziere | Named in honor of Martine De Mazière (1960– ), a scientist at the Belgian Institute for Space Aerono |
| 9645 | Grünewald | Named for the German painter and watercolor artist Matthias Grünewald (c. 1460-1528). His original |
| 9664 | Brueghel | Named in memory of Pieter Brueghel (Bruegel, Breughel; c.1525–1569), the greatest Flemish painter of |
| 9676 | Eijkman | Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930) won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of th |
| 9679 | Crutzen | Paul Crutzen (b. 1933) was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work in atmospher |
| 9680 | Molina | Mario J. Molina (b. 1943) was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, awarded for work |
| 9682 | Gravesande | Willem J. 's Gravesande (1688-1742) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy at Leid |
| 9683 | Rambaldo | Alfred E. Rambaldo (1879-1911), born on the island of Java, did extensive research on the upper laye |
| 9685 | Korteweg | Diederik Johannes Korteweg (1848-1941), professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, is |
| 9686 | Keesom | Dutch physicist Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876-1956) specialized in cryogenics. In 1926 he became the |
| 9687 | Uhlenbeck | Together with Samuel A. Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist George E. Uhlenbeck (1900-1988) proposed |
| 9688 | Goudsmit | Together with G. E. Uhlenbeck, Dutch-American physicist Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902-1978) formulated th |
| 9690 | Houtgast | Dutch solar physicist Jacob Houtgast (1908-1982) was associate professor at University of Utrecht, k |
| 9691 | Zwaan | Cornelis Zwaan (1928-1999), professor of astrophysics at Utrecht University, was a recognized author |
| 9692 | Kuperus | Max Kuperus (b. 1936), professor of astrophysics at Utrecht University, and a department chairman at |
| 9693 | Bleeker | Johan Bleeker (b. 1942), director of the Durch Space Research Organization and professor of space ph |
| 9696 | Jaffe | Walter J. Jaffe (b. 1947) is an American astronomer at Leiden Observatory with an interest in galaxi |
| 9697 | Louwman | Peter J. K. Louwman (b. 1935), a well-known popularizer of astronomy, was secretary for many years o |
| 9698 | Idzerda | Hanso Henricus Schotanus Steringa Idzerda (1885-1944) invented the vacuum triode for amplifying audi |
| 9699 | Baumhauer | Albert Gillis von Baumhauer (1891-1939) invented the tail rotor for helicopters and built the first |
| 9700 | Paech | Wolfgang Paech (b. 1951) is an electronic engineer on the staff of the Institute of Geodesy at the U |
| 9701 | Mak | Arie Mak (b. 1914) is one of the best-known Dutch amateur astronomers, active in lunar occultations |
| 9703 | Sussenbach | John Sussenbach (b. 1938) is a Dutch amateur astronomer known for his excellent sky photographs. He |
| 9705 | Drummen | Since 1975, Mat Drummen (b. 1945) has been director of “de Koepel”, the Dutch center for disseminati |
| 9706 | Bouma | Reinder J. Bouma (b. 1949) is one of the best known Dutch amateur astronomers. He is very active in |
| 9708 | Gouka | On 1901 Sept. 1 Adriaan Jacobus Gouka (1879-1963) and Christiaan A. C. Nell founded NVWS, the Dutch |
| 9721 | Doty | Arthur G. Doty (1951-1999) was a lifelong amateur astronomer whose passion inspired a continuing int |
| 9724 | Villanueva | Geronimo L. Villanueva (b. 1978) is a research assistant professor of physics at Catholic University |
| 9725 | Wainscoat | Richard J. Wainscoat (b. 1961) is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii who manages the Pan-STAR |
| 9726 | Verbiscer | Anne J. Verbiscer (b. 1964) is an associate research professor at the University of Virginia who stu |
| 9727 | Skrutskie | Michael F. Skrutskie (b. 1959) is a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia. An expert |
| 9728 | Videen | Gordon Videen (b. 1964) is a research scientist with the Space Science Institute of Boulder, Colorad |
| 9739 | Powell | James L. Powell (b. 1936), director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and professo |
| 9744 | Nielsen | As the physician responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a close-knit team of researchers |
| 9758 | Dainty | Named in honor of J. Christopher Dainty (1947– ), Pilkington Professor of Optics at Imperial College |
| 9761 | Krautter | Joachim Krautter (b. 1948) is associate director of the Heidelberg Königstuhl Observatory and a well |
| 9766 | Bradbury | Ray Douglas Bradbury (b. 1920) is the critically acclaimed science fiction author whose works includ |
| 9795 | Deprez | Brigitte Deprez (b. 1939) is the wife of Uccle astronomer Jozef Denoyelle, colleague of the discover |
| 9797 | Raes | Named in honor of the Flemish writer Hugo Raes (b. 1929), well known from his novels and other writi |
| 9811 | Cavadore | Cyril Cavadore (b. 1969) is a professional CCD specialist at the European Southern Observatory and a |
| 9812 | Danco | Emile Danco (1869-1898), who participated in the Antarctic expedition of Adrien de Gerlache, was res |
| 9813 | Rozgaj | Slavko Rozgaj (1895-1978), director of the Zagreb Observatory, was a prolific author of astronomy bo |
| 9816 | von Matt | Elisabeth, Baroness von Matt (1762-1814), was the only female Austrian astronomer of her time with a |
| 9820 | Hempel | Rolf Hempel (b. 1956) is a German amateur astronomer who determined many high-quality positions of m |
| 9825 | Oetken | Lore Oetken (b. 1929) has made significant contributions to the fields of magnetic stars, polarimetr |
| 9836 | Aarseth | Norwegian-born astronomer Sverre J. Aarseth (b. 1934), of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, dev |
| 9843 | Braidwood | Thomas Braidwood (1715-1806) was a Scottish teacher of the deaf, who founded Britain's first ‘Academ |
| 9859 | Van Lierde | Edmond Van Lierde (1888-1964), a brilliant student at the University of Brussels, later professor of |
| 9878 | Sostero | Giovanni Sostero (b. 1964), an Italian amateur astronomer since age 10 and now at the Remanzacco Obs |
| 9882 | Stallman | Richard Stallman (b. 1953) is the founder of the GNU project and an advocate and developer of free s |
| 9897 | Malerba | Franco Malerba (b. 1946), the first Italian astronaut, was a member of Space Mission STS-46 on board |
| 9900 | Llull | Named in memory of Ramon Llull (1232-1316), writer, philosopher, mystic, missionary and man of scien |
| 9902 | Kirkpatrick | Named for Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911-1984), eminent American harpsichordist, clavichordist, musicologis |
| 9903 | Leonhardt | Named for Gustav Leonhardt (b. 1928), eminent Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and pedagogue. As a h |
| 9908 | Aue | Hartmann von Aue (c. 1160-1210) was educated in a cloister and took part in the crusade of Barbaross |
| 9909 | Eschenbach | Wolfram von Eschenbach (1168-1220) was, with von Aue and Gottfried von Strassburg, one of the greate |
| 9910 | Vogelweide | Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170-1230) was probably born in Niederösterreich and died near Würzbu |
| 9911 | Quantz | Johan Joachim Quantz (1697-1773), the son of a smith, became citypiper of Merseburg, Germany, and la |
| 9917 | Keynes | British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set down the foundations of macroeconomics with hi |
| 9919 | Undset | The Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) received the Nobel prize for literature in 1928. She |
| 9920 | Bagnulo | Stefano Bagnulo (b. 1965) is an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory and a specialist in polarimetry |
| 9921 | Rubincam | David P. Rubincam (b. 1947) is an American planetary geodynamicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight |
| 9924 | Corrigan | Catherine “Cari” Corrigan (b. 1972) is a U.S. meteoriticist at the Smithsonian Institution. Her |
| 9926 | Desch | Steven Desch (b. 1970) is a professor of astronomy at Arizona State University. His work in theore |
| 9929 | McConnell | John C. McConnell (b. 1946) writes on the history of astronomy, and his photographic archive is much |
| 9938 | Kretlow | Mike Kretlow, a longtime friend of the discoverer, was a fellow student at the University of Siegen, |
| 9963 | Sandage | Allan Sandage (b. 1926), a distinguished American astronomer of Palomar and Mt. Wilson fame, is an i |
| 9968 | Serpe | Jean Nicolas François Jules Serpe (1914-2001) was the theoretical-physics professor of the discovere |
| 9969 | Braille | Named in memory of Louis Braille (1809-1852), who invented the Braille language so that those who co |
| 9973 | Szpilman | Wladyslaw Szpilman (1912-2000) was a Polish pianist who managed to survive in the Warsaw ghetto. In |
| 9973 | Szpilman | Wladyslaw Szpilman (1912-2000) was a Polish pianist who managed to survive in the Warsaw ghetto. In |
| 9974 | Brody | In his portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman, Adrien Brody (b. 1973) showed his talent in Roman Polanski's |
| 9987 | Peano | Named for Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Italian mathematician, professor at the University of Turin an |
| 9994 | Grotius | The works Mare Liberum (1609; “Free Access to the Ocean for all nations”) and De Jure Bell |
| 9999 | Wiles | Named in honor of Andrew J. Wiles (b. 1953), British mathematician world-renowned for his 1993 proof |
| 10013 | Stenholm | Lund astronomer Björn Stenholm has for many years worked on outreach activities in astronomy, notabl |
| 10018 | Lykawka | Patryk Sofia Lykawka (b. 1976) is a Brazilian-Italian planetary scientist and dynamicist whose contr |
| 10020 | Bagenal | Frances Bagenal (b. 1954) is a professor at the University of Colorado specializing in the study of |
| 10021 | Henja | Karin Henja is a prolific constructor of the Swedish form of crossword puzzles. |
| 10025 | Rauer | German planetary astronomer Heike Rauer (b. 1961) is known for her observational work on cometary co |
| 10027 | Perozzi | Ettore Perozzi (b. 1957), of Telespazio, Rome, works on solar-system dynamics and on interplanetary |
| 10028 | Bonus | Shelley R. Bonus (b. 1947) has taken part in the organization and inventory of the Palomar Observato |
| 10034 | Birlan | Mirel Birlan (b. 1963), of the Paris Observatory, Meudon, began his career in 1991 as an astronomer |
| 10036 | McGaha | James E. McGaha (b. 1946), Tucson astronomer, lecturer, U.S. Air Force pilot and skeptic, actively p |
| 10041 | Parkinson | Bradford Parkinson led a team that developed the Global Positioning System with revolutionary tracki |
| 10044 | Squyres | Steven W. Squyres (b. 1956), professor of astronomy at Cornell University, has used his knowledge of |
| 10046 | Creighton | Pioneering Arizona architect James Miller Creighton (1856-1946) designed “Old Main” at the Universit |
| 10050 | Rayman | Marc D. Rayman (b. 1956) has been devoted to the exploration of space since childhood and is excepti |
| 10051 | Albee | Arden L. Albee (b. 1928), Caltech professor of geology and planetary sciences, was dean of graduate |
| 10057 | L'Obel | Matthias de L´Obel (Lobelius, 1538-1616) was a Flemish physician and botanist. In his important wor |
| 10067 | Bertuch | Named for the German author, bookseller and successful liberal employer Friedrich Justin Bertuch (17 |
| 10068 | Dodoens | Named in memory of the Flemish physician and botanist Rembertus Dodonaeus (1516-1585). The Stirp |
| 10069 | Fontenelle | Named in memory of Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle (1657-1757), well-known for his famous wor |
| 10079 | Meunier | Named in memory of the Belgian sculptor and painter Constant Meunier (1831-1905), one of the princip |
| 10089 | Turgot | Named in memory of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781), the famous French economist whose efforts |
| 10093 | Diesel | Named in memory of Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), German thermal engineer, who devoted mu |
| 10099 | Glazebrook | An astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, Karl Glazebrook (b. 1965) is a specialist on the properti |
| 10101 | Fourier | Named in memory of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), French mathematician who exerted a stro |
| 10108 | Tomlinson | Ray Tomlinson led the way in high-speed communication by developing a software program making it pos |
| 10111 | Fresnel | Named in memory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), French physicist who constructed the so-called |
| 10122 | Fröding | The Swedish poet Gustav Fröding (1860-1911) suffered from inherited mental illness. A journalist fo |
| 10136 | Gauguin | Named in memory of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), leading French painter of the post-impressionist period |
| 10139 | Ronsard | Named in memory of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), the most important member of the group of poets kn |
| 10140 | Villon | Named in memory of François Villon (1431-1463), one of the greatest French lyric poets, known for hi |
| 10151 | Rubens | Named in memory of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the greatest exponent of sensuous Baroque painting |
| 10153 | Goldman | Since 1986 Stuart Goldman (b. 1963) has guided Sky & Telescope readers through the ever-chang |
| 10172 | Humphreys | Minnesota astronomer Roberta M. Humphreys (b. 1944) is a leader in studies of physical properties of |
| 10177 | Ellison | Harlan Ellison (b. 1934) is science-fiction author whose works include I Have No Mouth and I Must |
| 10183 | Ampère | Named in memory of André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), French physicist who founded the science of elect |
| 10184 | Galvani | Named in memory of Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), Italian physician and physicist who conceived the elec |
| 10186 | Albéniz | A child prodigy, the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) studied at the conservat |
| 10198 | Pinelli | Paolo Pinelli (b. 1954) is an amateur astronomer of the Montelupo group. He was the first to propos |
| 10203 | Flinders | Named in memory of Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), British navigator and explorer who charted the Aust |
| 10204 | Turing | Named in memory of Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954), English mathematician and logician, a pioneer i |
| 10210 | Nathues | German geophysicist Andreas Nathues (b. 1967) studied the physical properties of the Eunomia family |
| 10218 | Bierstadt | Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), a landscape artist from the Hudson River School, was best known for hi |
| 10220 | Pigott | Named in memory of the English amateur astronomer Edward Pigott (1753–1825), discoverer of several c |
| 10222 | Klotz | Alain Klotz, an amateur astronomer at the Centres d'Etudes Spatiales du Rayonnement in Toulouse, is |
| 10237 | Adzic | Vladislav Adzic (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair |
| 10251 | Mulisch | Harry Mulisch (b. 1927) is one of the great post-war Dutch writers. He has written novels, plays, e |
| 10265 | Gunnarsson | Marcus Gunnarsson (b. 1971) is a planetary scientist at Uppsala Astronomical Observatory who special |
| 10267 | Giuppone | Cristian Giuppone (b. 1979) is an Argentine astronomer at the Cordoba Astronomical Observatory inves |
| 10276 | Matney | Mark Matney (b. 1963) of the Johnson Space Center has made fundamental contributions to models and o |
| 10277 | Micheli | Marco Micheli (b. 1983) is a researcher at the European Space Agency Space Situational Awareness Nea |
| 10278 | Virkki | Anne Virkki (b. 1988) is a postdoctoral scholar at the Arecibo Observatory who studies near-Earth as |
| 10281 | Libourel | Guy Libourel (b. 1956) is a cosmochemist at Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur (France) whose research i |
| 10283 | Cromer | Dedicated teachers Michael (b. 1941) and Sarah (b. 1945) Cromer, of Flagstaff, Arizona, set a standa |
| 10288 | Saville | Curt Saville (1946-2001) was an avid ocean and arctic explorer. He rowed across both the Atlantic a |
| 10303 | Fréret | The famous French historian Nicolas Fréret (1688-1749), well known for his atheistic treatise Let |
| 10305 | Grignard | Fernand (Ferre) Grignard (1939-1982), a member of an ancient family, became famous during the 1960s |
| 10306 | Pagnol | Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was a French writer who will be always remembered for his novels Jean d |
| 10310 | Delacroix | Best known for his painting “Liberty leading the people”, Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was inspired |
| 10315 | Brewster | Stephen C. Brewster (b. 1945), a former member of the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey, has h |
| 10320 | Reiland | Charles Thomas Reiland (b. 1946), for many years president of the Amateur Astronomers Association of |
| 10323 | Frazer | James George Frazer (1854-1941) is best remembered for The Golden Bough, a study in comparati |
| 10327 | Batens | Diderik Batens (b. 1944) is a member of the philosophy department at the University of Ghent. About |
| 10330 | Durkheim | Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) was convinced that ethical and social structures were endangered by the a |
| 10334 | Gibbon | British historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), celebrated for his six-volume work The Decline and F |
| 10358 | Kirchhoff | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) was a German physicist who, together with Robert Bunsen, founded |
| 10361 | Bunsen | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) was a German chemist who discovered the alkali-group metals cesium |
| 10369 | Sinden | David Sinden (b. 1932), as chief optician for Grubb-Parsons of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was responsible |
| 10372 | Moran | Landscape artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926) focused his work on the American frontier, from the shores |
| 10373 | MacRobert | For two decades the versatile writing of Alan MacRobert (b. 1951) has introduced Sky & Telescope< |
| 10380 | Berwald | Franz Berwald (1796-1868) may be considered the founder of musical Romanticism in Sweden. Although h |
| 10381 | Malinsmith | Konrad Malin-Smith (b. 1934), a retired science teacher, has given entertaining talks to local astro |
| 10382 | Hadamard | Named in honor of the eminent French mathematician Jaques-Salomon Hadamard (1865-1963). Hadamard mad |
| 10392 | Brace | Named in memory of DeWitt Bristol Brace (1858-1905), who founded the department of physics and astro |
| 10404 | McCall | Robert T. McCall (b. 1919?) is a legendary space artist whose work has not only documented the devel |
| 10416 | Kottler | MIT Lincoln Laboratory associate director Herbert Kottler (b. 1939) headed the Aerospace Division (1 |
| 10421 | Dalmatin | Herman Dalmatin (1110-1154) is also known as Hermanus Dalmata. Born inland from the Istrian peninsul |
| 10423 | Dajčić | Mario Dajčić (1923-1991) was a prominent Croatian amateur astronomer, telescope builder and educator |
| 10424 | Gaillard | Boris Gaillard (b. 1976) is an amateur astronomer and software engineer. He spent two successive an |
| 10428 | Wanders | Adrianus S. P. J. M. Wanders (1903-1984) was a Dutch astronomer who published important Dutch popula |
| 10431 | Pottasch | Stuart S. Pottasch (b. 1932) is an American astrophysics professor in Groningen. He is an expert on |
| 10433 | Ponsen | Jaap Ponsen (1931-1961) was a Leiden astronomer who worked on variable stars and made observations a |
| 10434 | Tinbergen | Jaap Tinbergen (b. 1934) is an expert on polarimetry who works mainly on the development of new inst |
| 10442 | Biezenzo | Dutch physicist Cornelis B. Biezenzo (1888-1975) was known for his work in the field of applied mech |
| 10444 | de Hevesy | Hungarian-Swedish physicist George de Hevesy (1885-1966) was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry i |
| 10445 | Coster | With de Hevesy, Dutch physicist Dirk Coster (1889-1950) discovered the metallic element 72 hafnium, |
| 10446 | Siegbahn | Swedish physicist Kai M. Siegbahn (b. 1918) was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his |
| 10450 | Girard | Terrence Girard (b. 1957) joined the Yale University Astronomy Department in 1985 and since then has |
| 10455 | Donnison | John Donnison (b. 1948), of Goldsmith College, London, is well known for his work in using sophistic |
| 10463 | Bannister | Michele Bannister (b. 1986) is a postdoctoral research fellow at Queen's University Belfast whose wo |
| 10465 | Olkin | Catherine B. Olkin (b. 1966) is a researcher at Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, Colorado), De |
| 10469 | Krohn | Katrin Krohn (b. 1984) is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR-Berlin) studying cryogeni |
| 10470 | Bartczak | Przemysł aw Bartczak (b. 1974) is a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewic |
| 10471 | Marciniak | Anna Marciniak (b. 1979) is a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewic Unive |
| 10473 | Thirouin | Audrey Thirouin (b. 1984) is a researcher at the Lowell Observatory who performs photometric measure |
| 10474 | Pecina | Petr Pecina (b. 1950) is a retired astronomer from the Czech Academy of Sciences known for studies o |
| 10484 | Hecht | For more than a decade, Martin D. Hecht (b. 1926) has volunteered to help organize the Lowell Observ |
| 10489 | Keinonen | Juhani Keinonen (b. 1946) is an emeritus professor and a long-serving director of the Department of |
| 10506 | Rydberg | Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854-1919) was a Swedish physicist educated at the University of Lund who h |
| 10529 | Giessenburg | The Dutch writer, freemason and editor Rudolf Charles d´Ablaing van Giessenburg (1826-1904) will alw |
| 10538 | Torode | In a 1992 study of 170 astrolabes, British industrial chemist Rowland K. E. Torode (b. 1923) measure |
| 10542 | Ruckers | Hans Ruckers (1555-1623) was the most famous of all harpsichord makers and founder of a dynasty of F |
| 10557 | Rowland | Henry Rowland (1848-1901) was an American physicist who in 1885 developed a machine capable of engra |
| 10587 | Strindberg | Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg (1849-1912) made important contributions to the na |
| 10637 | Heimlich | Henry J. Heimlich is an American surgeon who in the early 1970s devised the “Heimlich maneuver”, a p |
| 10638 | McGlothlin | Gerald R. McGlothlin (b. 1952) was responsible for refurbishing much of the LONEOS dome, turning a b |
| 10639 | Gleason | Arianna Gleason (b. 1980) is a student observer with the Spacewatch Project. She has been instrumen |
| 10647 | Meesters | P. G. Meesters (1887-1964) is the Nestor of amateur astronomy in the Netherlands. He built his own |
| 10648 | Plancius | Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, 1552-1622) was a Dutch theologian, astronomer, navigator and appo |
| 10650 | Houtman | Cornelis de Houtman (1565-1599) sailed south with four ships in 1595 to find a route to the East Ind |
| 10652 | Blaeu | Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) was the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company from |
| 10653 | Witsen | Nicolaas Witsen (1641-1717) was a Dutch lawyer, politician, scientist, graphic artist, collector, au |
| 10654 | Bontekoe | Willem Bontekoe (1587-1646) was a captain in the Dutch East India Company. However, he is not known |
| 10656 | Albrecht | German astronomer Carl Theodor Albrecht (1843-1915) was influential in setting up the International |
| 10657 | Wanach | Bernhard Karl Wanach (1867-1928) carried out pioneering work on polar motion with C. T. Albrecht, wh |
| 10665 | Ortigão | Catarina Ortigão (b. 1974) is a person of rare inner beauty, to whom Pedro Lacerda, a colleague of t |
| 10666 | Feldberg | The Feldberg is the highest mountain (1490 m) of the Schwarzwald. Winter and summer, its wonderful s |
| 10674 | de Elía | Gonzalo Carlos de Elía (b. 1977) is an Argentine astronomer at La Plata National University who stud |
| 10677 | Colucci | Adrian Rodriguez Colucci (b. 1978) is an astronomer at the Valongo Observatory of Rio de Janeiro, Br |
| 10678 | Alilagoa | Victor Alí-Lagoa (b. 1983) is a Spanish astronomer whose PhD research at the Instituto de Astrofísic |
| 10683 | Carter | Carter Worth Roberts (b. 1946), president of the Eastbay Astronomical Society, is known for superlat |
| 10686 | Kaluna | Heather Kaluna (b. 1984) is a researcher at the University of Hawaii studying the evolution of water |
| 10690 | Massera | José Luis Massera (1915-2002) was a Uruguayan mathematician who studied the stability of differentia |
| 10691 | Sans | Juan Diego Sans (1922-2005) was a Uruguayan professor and public communicator of astronomy at the Un |
| 10692 | Opeil | Cyril P. Opeil SJ (b. 1960) is a professor at Boston College studying the thermal properties of mete |
| 10693 | Zangari | Amanda M. Zangari (b. 1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, C |
| 10694 | Lacerda | Pedro Lacerda (b. 1975) is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast whose work includes analyzing ro |
| 10698 | Singer | Kelsi N. Singer (b. 1984) is a postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, Col |
| 10699 | Calabrese | Pietro Calabrese (1944-2010) was editor of the Italian newspapers Il Messaggero and La Gazzetta dell |
| 10707 | Prunariu | Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (b. 1952 ) became the first Romanian cosmonaut flying in 1981 aboard Soyuz 40 |
| 10715 | Nagler | Al Nagler (b. 1935) is an optical designer best known for his innovative wide-field eyepieces and ve |
| 10720 | Danzl | Nichole Danzl is a biology student, artist and a past Spacewatch Observer. Danzl discovered several |
| 10730 | White | An astronomer at Lowell Observatory from 1969 until 2007, Nathaniel Miller White (b. 1941) studied c |
| 10734 | Wieck | Clara Josephine Wieck (1819-1896) was a German child prodigy and by 1835 had established a reputatio |
| 10737 | Brück | Hermann Alexander Brück (1905-2000) was a German astronomer specializing in spectroscopy, who made s |
| 10739 | Lowman | Margaret D. Lowman (b. 1953) has worked to understand the role tropical forests play in Earth's inte |
| 10774 | Eisenach | Charmingly situated, Eisenach is a Thuringian town, founded in the the twelfth century. J. S. Bach |
| 10784 | Noailles | Anna de Noailles (1876-1933) was the daughter of a Romanian prince and granddaughter of a Turkish pa |
| 10785 | Dejaiffe | René Dejaiffe (b. 1940), of the Royal Belgian Observatory, has presided over national and internatio |
| 10795 | Babben | Barbro Babben Larsson (b. 1956), born on Gotland, is a Swedish actress, singer and comedienne. Famo |
| 10796 | Sollerman | Jesper Sollerman (b. 1968) is an astronomer working at the department of astronomy, Stockholm Univer |
| 10830 | Desforges | Jacques Desforges (1723-1791) was a French priest at Etampes, opposing the clergy by writing the pam |
| 10838 | Lebon | Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was a French social psychologist who became famous through his book La |
| 10839 | Hufeland | The German physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762-1836) was professor of medicine in Jena and Be |
| 10857 | Blüthner | Julius Blüthner (1824-1910) founded a piano factory in Leipzig in 1853. His instruments found high |
| 10863 | Oye | Jacob and Martha Oye are the grandparents of Paul Kervin, AMOS technical director. Jacob immigrated |
| 10870 | Gwendolen | Mary Gwendolen Ellery Read Aikman (1903-1994) was an inspiring educator and mother of the discoverer |
| 10874 | Locatelli | Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764), born in Bergamo, studied violin in Rome with Corelli and Valen |
| 10891 | Fink | Uwe Fink (b. 1939), at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has made major contributions in the field |
| 10894 | Nakai | R. Carlos Nakai (b. 1946) is a musician and cultural anthropologist of Navajo-Ute descent. Classica |
| 10907 | Savalle | Renaud Savalle (b. 1971), astronomical software programmer, wrote the CCD acquisition system used by |
| 10914 | Tucker | Roy Tucker (b. 1951), an instrumentalist at Kitt Peak National Observatory, is owner and chief obser |
| 10918 | Kodaly | With his friend Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) collected melodies and rhy |
| 10928 | Caprara | Giovanni Caprara (b. 1948) is science and space editor of Il Corriere della Sera, the most au |
| 10932 | Rebentrost | David Rebentrost (1614-1703) worked in Drebach as a vicar, doctor and herbalist. The garden he desi |
| 10937 | Ferris | William D. Ferris (b. 1961), a video producer-director at Northern Arizona University, has been an a |
| 10943 | Brunier | Serge Brunier (b. 1958) worked as a reporter and editor -in-chief of Ciel et Espace magazine |
| 10954 | Spiegel | Beate Spiegel (b. 1960) serves as head of the office of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. She was instr |
| 10955 | Harig | Ludwig Harig (b. 1927) is a German writer. Besides experimental texts and poetry, he also wrote nar |
| 10961 | Buysballot | Dutch scientist Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot (1817-1890) created Buys Ballot's law describing the |
| 10964 | Degraaff | Willem de Graaff (1923-2004) was a Dutch astronomical researcher at Utrecht University who unveiled |
| 10968 | Sterken | Christiaan Sterken (b. 1946), an astronomer at the Free University of Brussels, has a particular int |
| 10969 | Perryman | Michael Perryman (b. 1954), project scientist of the HIPPARCOS and GAIA missions of the European Spa |
| 10970 | de Zeeuw | Pieter Timotheus (Tim) de Zeeuw (b. 1956) is currently director of Leiden Observatory and of the Net |
| 10972 | Merbold | In 1983 and 1988, the German physicist Ulf Merbold was the first European astronaut to perform resea |
| 10976 | Wubbena | Eltjo Wubbena (b. 1947) was president of the NVWS, the Dutch popular-astronomy society, from 1975 to |
| 10977 | Mathlener | Edwin Mathlener (b. 1962) was editor of the Dutch astronomy magazine Zenit, and is now direct |
| 10980 | Breimer | Douwe Breimer (b. 1943), is Rector Magnificus and President of Leiden University, a world-renowned p |
| 10982 | Poerink | A Dutch meteor researcher for more than 20 years, Urijan Poerink (b. 1953) was particularly involved |
| 10983 | Smolders | The Dutch scientist, writer and journalist Petrus L. L. Smolders (b. 1940) has contributed to the po |
| 10984 | Gispen | Willem Hendrik Gispen (b. 1943) is a well-known Dutch scientist in the field of neurosciences, and f |
| 10985 | Feast | Michael Feast (b. 1926) has had a distinguished career in stellar studies of the Milky Way and the M |
| 10988 | Feinstein | Alejandro Feinstein (b. 1928), an astronomer at La Plata Observatory, is one of the originators of a |
| 10994 | Fouchard | Marc Fouchard (b. 1972) is a professor at the Laboratoire d´Astronomie de Université Lille and colla |
| 10997 | Gahm | Gösta Gahm (b. 1968) is an astronomer at Stockholm Observatory. For many years he has been the proje |
| 11004 | Stenmark | Lars Stenmark (b. 1944) is a professor in micro- and nano-technology for space applications at Uppsa |
| 11006 | Gilson | Jewett Castello Gilson (1844-1926), Californian teacher, author and superintendent of schools, was d |
| 11007 | Granahan | James C. Granahan (b. 1965) is a scientist at Leidos Inc. whose research includes spectroscopic anal |
| 11008 | Ernst | Carolyn M. Ernst (b. 1979) is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics |
| 11012 | Henning | John Henning (b. 1947) assisted with the control software development during the conversion of the P |
| 11013 | Kullander | Sven Kullander (b. 1936) is professor in radiation science at Uppsala University. He also has a kee |
| 11021 | Foderà | Giorgia Foderà (b. 1942) teaches history of astronomy at Palermo University. Curator of the Palermo |
| 11022 | Serio | Salvatore Serio (b. 1941) teaches astronomy at Palermo University, specializing in x-ray observation |
| 11033 | Mazanek | Dan Mazanek (b. 1966) is a space systems engineer at NASA Langley Research Center specializing in th |
| 11039 | Raynal | Guillaume-Thomas Raynal (1713-1796) wrote a six-volume history of the European colonies in India and |
| 11040 | Wundt | German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) is acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychol |
| 11041 | Fechner | Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist and philosopher who founded the science of |
| 11051 | Racine | The dramatic poet Jean-Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) was the uncontested master of French classicism. |
| 11056 | Volland | Sophie Volland (1720-1784) was the primary correspondent of Dénis Diderot, who met her in 1755 near |
| 11061 | Lagerlöf | Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) wrote beautiful stories, using popular tales of her Vaer |
| 11063 | Poynting | British physicist John Henry Poynting (1852-1914) introduced a theorem in 1884 in which he stated t |
| 11069 | Bellqvist | Sven Bellqvist (1915-2008) was for many years in charge of the workshop at the astronomical observat |
| 11073 | Cavell | Edith (Louisa) Cavell (1865-1915) was an English nurse who in 1907 was appointed to the Berkendael I |
| 11082 | Spilliaert | Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) was a self-taught Belgian painter who developed his art far beyond the s |
| 11090 | Popelin | In 1888, Marie Popelin (1846-1913) graduated from the Free University of Brussels as a lawyer. Howe |
| 11098 | Ginsberg | Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American lyric poet and teacher, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and s |
| 11112 | Cagnoli | The Italian astronomer Antonio Cagnoli (1743-1816) worked to introduce the scientific ideas of the E |
| 11132 | Horne | An amateur astronomer since age 10, Johnny Horne (b. 1953) is photo editor for the Fayetteville O |
| 11147 | Delmas | Robert Delmas (b. 1955) is a French aeronautical engineer. Deeply interested in astronomy, he has d |
| 11150 | Bragg | William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), born in Adelaide, shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with hi |
| 11158 | Cirou | Alain Cirou (b. 1958) is editor of Ciel et Espace magazine. He began working for the Associa |
| 11169 | Alkon | Andy L. Alkon (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair f |
| 11176 | Batth | Sukhjeet Singh Batth (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 11184 | Postma | Sep Postma (1921-1944) was concerned with human rights. He escaped occupied Holland via Spain and w |
| 11191 | Paskvić | Ivan Paskvić (1754-1829), known in Hungary as Paquich Ja'nos, born in the Adriatic city of Senj, was |
| 11197 | Beranek | Benjamin Charles Beranek (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 11206 | Bibee | Kristin Page Bibee (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering F |
| 11212 | Tebbutt | John Tebbutt (1834-1916) was an Australian astronomer whose observations included many comets and th |
| 11225 | Borden | Timothy Calvin Borden (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 11228 | Botnick | Aaron Michael Botnick (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 11239 | Marcgraf | Georg Marcgraf (1610-1643), astronomer, mathematician and naturalist, made the first serious study o |
| 11240 | Piso | Willem Piso (1610-1678), doctor of medicine, together with Georg Marcgraf wrote the first book about |
| 11241 | Eckhout | As a member of a scientific expedition, Dutch painter Albert Eckhout (1610-1666) made portraits of t |
| 11243 | de Graauw | Dutch astronomer Matthijs W. M. de Graauw (b. 1942) is known for his tireless enthusiasm in pushing |
| 11248 | Blériot | Louis Blériot (1872-1936), French aviator and airplane designer, made the first airplane crossing of |
| 11256 | Fuglesang | Christer Fuglesang (b. 1957) was the first Swedish astronaut. |
| 11260 | Camargo | Julio Ignacio Bueno de Camargo (b. 1967) is a researcher at the Observatorio Nacional (Brazil) who s |
| 11262 | Drube | Line Drube (b. 1980) is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR-Berlin) whose |
| 11263 | Pesonen | Lauri Pesonen (b. 1944) is an emeritus Professor of geophysics at the University of Helsinki. An e |
| 11265 | Hasselmann | Pedro Henrique Aragão Hasselmann (b. 1987) completed his PhD at Observatório Nacional do Rio de Jane |
| 11266 | Macke | Robert J. Macke SJ (b. 1974) is a research scientist and meteorite curator at the Vatican Observator |
| 11277 | Ballard | Robert D. Ballard (b. 1942) is a marine scientist who has spent much of his professional career bene |
| 11278 | Telesio | Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist who severely opposed |
| 11298 | Gide | André Gide (1869-1951), the French writer, humanist and moralist, is well-known for his novel Le |
| 11305 | Ahlqvist | David Ahlqvist (1900-1988) was an artist, author, musician and for many years a leading personality |
| 11306 | Åkesson | Sonja Åkesson (1926-1977), born in Buttle on Gotland, was well known for her characteristic poetic s |
| 11309 | Malus | Étienne-Louis Malus (1775-1812) was a French physicist who discovered the polarization of reflected |
| 11314 | Charcot | Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was one of France's greatest medical clinicians, working at Paris' f |
| 11336 | Piranesi | Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778), a Venetian architect and etcher who lived and worked in Rome for |
| 11341 | Babbage | Intending to automate complex arithmetical calculations, British mathematician Charles Babbage (1791 |
| 11349 | Witten | Edward Witten (b. 1951) is a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and one of t |
| 11352 | Koldewey | Eberhard Koldewey (b. 1937), at the DLR Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Explorati |
| 11363 | Vives | Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540), a student of Erasmus, was a Spanish humanist. To avoid the Inquisition |
| 11369 | Brazelton | Mary Augusta Brazelton (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineeri |
| 11371 | Camley | Brian Andrew Camley (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 11373 | Carbonaro | Nicole Jean Carbonaro (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 11377 | Nye | Ralph A. Nye (b. 1945), Lowell Observatory's instrument designer, used his considerable technical sk |
| 11378 | Dauria | Florida amateur astronomer Tippy D'Auria (b. 1935) is founder of the Winter Star Party. For many ye |
| 11384 | Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French novelist and the exponent of Existentialism, used his pen his e |
| 11385 | Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a French writer of great courage and integrity, who made a point |
| 11404 | Wittig | Sigmar Wittig (b. 1940), chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center during 2002- |
| 11409 | Horkheimer | Jack F. Horkheimer (b. 1938), the executive director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, is best |
| 11413 | Catanach | Therese Anne Catanach (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 11421 | Cardano | Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), prototypical Renaissance man, physician, mathematician, astrologer, in |
| 11423 | Cronin | Kevin Michael Cronin (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 11426 | Molster | Lucia Glen Molster (2007 Apr. 26-27) was the beloved daughter of Dutch astronomers Frank and Nathali |
| 11432 | Kerkhoven | Rudolf Albert Kerkhoven (1879-1940) was a notable Dutch tea planter in Malabar, West Java, who, with |
| 11434 | Lohnert | Karl Julius Lohnert (1885-1944) worked from 1905 to 1907 as an assistant of Max Wolf and discovered |
| 11437 | Cardalda | Carlos Cardalda (1883-1961) was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer who cofounded the Argentinian Ass |
| 11440 | Massironi | Matteo Massironi (b. 1967) is a Professor at the University of Padova whose research includes the ge |
| 11450 | Shearer | Andrew Shearer (b. 1953), of the National University of Ireland, Galway, leads the group working in |
| 11464 | Moser | Danielle Moser (b. 1980) is a scientist working for the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office whose rese |
| 11465 | Fulvio | Daniele Fulvio (b. 1979) is a professor of Physics at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de |
| 11469 | Rozitis | Benjamin Rozitis (b. 1984) is a research fellow at the Open University (UK) studying the physical an |
| 11484 | Daudet | Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), mainly remembered as a French writer of sentimental tales, believed tha |
| 11499 | Duras | Marguerite Duras (Donnadieu, 1914-1996), French novelist, became internationally known for the scree |
| 11510 | Borges | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentine poet and short-story writer, became famous through his poem |
| 11518 | Jung | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed the (much contested) concept of |
| 11519 | Adler | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term “inferiority feeling” |
| 11520 | Fromm | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German psychoanalyst who believed that mankind could develop a psychol |
| 11521 | Erikson | Erik H. Erikson (1902-1994) was a German-American psychoanalyst who made important contributions to |
| 11524 | Pleyel | Ignaz Jozef Pleyel (1757-1831) was an Austro-French composer who became famous as a piano builder. |
| 11532 | Gullin | Lars Gullin (1928-1976) was a Swedish jazz musician, born in Sanda on Gotland. He was famous as a c |
| 11533 | Akebäck | Akebäck is a small parish centrally situated on Gotland. A village resident named Botair is said to |
| 11537 | Guericke | German physicist Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) studied in Jena and was mayor of Magdeburg. He inven |
| 11547 | Griesser | Swiss amateur astronomer Markus Griesser (b. 1949) is cofounder of the Eschenberg Observatory in Win |
| 11571 | Daens | Adolf Daens (1839-1907), a Flemish priest at Aalst, will always be remembered for his dedication to |
| 11572 | Schindler | Oskar Schindler (1905-1974) was an German industrialist during World War II. Through his heroic act |
| 11573 | Helmholtz | Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894), a German doctor, physiologist and physicist, was |
| 11574 | d'Aviella | Count Goblet d´Aviella was a Belgian historian. A Grandmaster of the Grand-Orient Belgian Masonic L |
| 11577 | Einasto | Estonian astronomer Jaan Einasto (b. 1929) discovered the presence of dark matter in the universe in |
| 11582 | Bleuler | Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), author of Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie (1916), intr |
| 11583 | Breuer | Jozef Breuer (1842-1925) was an Austrian physician who anticipated the process of psychoanalysis. I |
| 11584 | Ferenczi | Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst who improved the therapeutic technique of |
| 11596 | Francetic | Daniel Francetic (1933-2014) was director and space science educator of the Euclid High School Plane |
| 11665 | Dirichlet | Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) was the successor of Gauss and the predecessor of Riemann |
| 11666 | Bracker | Steve Bracker (b. 1942) is a renaissance man---particle physicist, harpsichordist, astronomer, natur |
| 11672 | Cuney | Husband and wife team Bruce (b. 1947) and Dana (b. 1950) Cuney work at Palomar and were responsible |
| 11673 | Baur | German amateur astronomer Johann M. Baur (b. 1930) founded the Chaonis Observatory in northern Italy |
| 11681 | Ortner | Johannes Ortner (b. 1933) is founder and unique director of the Summer School Alpbach. Held annuall |
| 11691 | Easterwood | Jeffrey Michael Easterwood (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 11695 | Mattei | Janet Akyüz Mattei (b. 1943), a tireless promoter of the observation of variable stars by amateurs, |
| 11696 | Capen | Charles (“Chick”) Franklin Capen (1926-1986) was best known for his observations of the planets, par |
| 11698 | Fichtelman | Jon Roger Fichtelman (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 11703 | Glassman | Elena Leah Glassman (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 11704 | Gorin | Michael Adam Gorin (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering F |
| 11707 | Grigery | Chelsea Nicole Grigery (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineeri |
| 11711 | Urquiza | Luis Urquiza del Valle (1906-2000) was the much-loved grandfather of LONEOS observer L. Levy. |
| 11713 | Stubbs | Christopher Stubbs (b. 1958), of the University of Washington, has pursued a variety of projects in |
| 11718 | Hayward | Nicholas Mark Edward Alexander Hayward (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Scien |
| 11719 | Hicklen | Rachel Scarlett Hicklen (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineer |
| 11726 | Edgerton | Harold “Doc” Eugene Edgerton (1903-1990), born in Fremont, Nebraska, was professor of electrical eng |
| 11727 | Sweet | During the 1.2-m Schmidt conversion Merle Sweet (b. 1942), assistant superintendent at the Palomar O |
| 11728 | Einer | Palomar Observatory technician Steve Einer (b. 1955) worked extremely hard removing old and installi |
| 11754 | Herbig | U.S. astronomer George Herbig (b. 1920), co-discoverer of Herbig-Haro objects, is a spectroscopist w |
| 11757 | Salpeter | Edwin E. Salpeter (b. 1924), born in Austria, educated in Australia and the U.K., has been at Cornel |
| 11758 | Sargent | Wallace Sargent (b. 1935), a British astrophysicist at Caltech since 1959, is known for analysis of |
| 11760 | Auwers | Arthur Auwers (1838-1915), Potsdam Observatory director from 1881, established the first reference c |
| 11762 | Vogel | Hermann Carl Vogel (1841-1907) was a German astronomer and spectroscopist. He invented an early sche |
| 11763 | Deslandres | Henri Deslandres (1853-1948) was a French astrophysicist and observatory director. An independent i |
| 11767 | Milne | E. Arthur Milne (1896-1950) was a British mathematician and astrophysicist who made important studie |
| 11768 | Merrill | Paul W. Merrill (1887-1961), a Mt. Wilson Observatory spectroscopist, was the first to detect a shor |
| 11771 | Maestlin | Michael Maestlin (1550-1631), professor of astronomy at Tübingen, was an influential teacher of Joha |
| 11773 | Schouten | Cornelis Willem Schouten (1580-1625), together with Jacob Le Maire, discovered a passage from the so |
| 11774 | Jerne | Niels K. Jerne (1911-1994) was a Danish Nobel laureate in medicine (1984), and he shared his prize w |
| 11775 | Köhler | Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995), German biochemist and recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in medicin |
| 11776 | Milstein | The Argentinian biochemist César Milstein (1927-2002) received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1984, |
| 11777 | Hargrave | Lawrence Hargrave (1850-1915), Australian astronomer and aviation pioneer, experimented beginning in |
| 11779 | Zernike | Frits Zernike (1888-1966), Nobel Laureate in physics exactly half a century ago, was professor of ph |
| 11796 | Nirenberg | American mathematician Louis Merses Nirenberg (b. 1925) is an expert in the theory of differential e |
| 11797 | Warell | Johan Warell (b. 1970) is well known for his high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of the planet |
| 11798 | Davidsson | The Ph.D. work of Björn Davidsson (b. 1974) at Uppsala University opened up new insights about the o |
| 11799 | Lantz | Cateline Lantz (b. 1989) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology w |
| 11800 | Carrozzo | Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo (b. 1978) is a researcher at Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spazial |
| 11801 | Frigeri | Alessandro Frigeri (b. 1973) is a researcher at the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali |
| 11803 | Turrini | Diego Turrini (b. 1979) is a scientist at the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS- |
| 11804 | Zambon | Francesca Zambon (b. 1981) is a researcher at the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (I |
| 11807 | Wannberg | Asta Pellinen-Wannberg (b. 1953) is a Swedish geophysicist and astronomer at Umeå University known f |
| 11808 | Platz | Thomas Platz (b. 1975) is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute and member of the Dawn mission fr |
| 11810 | Preusker | Frank Preusker (b. 1975) is a geologist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR-Berlin) whose work incl |
| 11814 | Schwamb | Megan Schwamb (b. 1984) is a scientist at the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii whose research incl |
| 11816 | Vasile | Massimiliano Vasile (b. 1970) is a professor at the University of Strathclyde (UK) whose work includ |
| 11818 | Ulamec | Stephan Ulamec (b. 1966) is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR-Berlin) who served as t |
| 11823 | Christen | Roland W. Christen (b. 1944) is an optician and maker of affordable apochromatic refractors at the f |
| 11828 | Vargha | Magda Vargha (1931-2010), librarian of Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, was the author of several book |
| 11829 | Tuvikene | Tynu Tuvikene (1952-2010) was an Estonian astronomer and staff member of Tartu Observatory who studi |
| 11830 | Jessenius | Ján Jesenský (Jessenius, 1566-1621) was a physician, head of Prague university beginning in 1618 and |
| 11833 | Dixon | Roger Dixon (b. 1947) is a staff physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, |
| 11844 | Ostwald | Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) was a Baltic-German chemist who established the discipline of physical c |
| 11846 | Verminnen | Johan Verminnen (b. 1951) is a Flemish artist, well known for his song Rue des Bouchers, name |
| 11849 | Fauvel | Charles Fauvel (1904-1979) was a French aviator who in 1933 invented the flying wing. He solved the |
| 11874 | Gringauz | Konstantin Gringauz (1918-1993) became involved in ionospheric studies early in his career. He part |
| 11895 | Dehant | Véronique Dehant (b. 1959) is head of the section for time, earth rotation and space geodesy at the |
| 11896 | Camelbeeck | Thierry Camelbeeck (b. 1956) is a seismologist at the Royal Observatory, Uccle. He has carried out |
| 11897 | Lemaire | Joseph F. Lemaire (b. 1939), head of the Fundamental Dynamics section at the Belgian Institute for S |
| 11898 | Dedeyn | Peter Paul De Deyn (b. 1957) is head of the Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behavior at the Born-Bu |
| 11900 | Spinoy | Constant Spinoy (1924-1997) was a famous Belgian artist and engraver who specialised in the design o |
| 11905 | Giacometti | The work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), often compared to that of the Existential |
| 11907 | Näränen | Jyri Näränen (b. 1979) is a Finnish astronomer who works on the surface composition and structure of |
| 11913 | Svarna | Anneta Svarna (b. 1951) is a mathematical logician who works on information theory for the European |
| 11934 | Lundgren | Kjell Lundgren (b.~1950) who has studied red giants in the LMC and the Fornax dwarf galaxy, is now w |
| 11936 | Tremolizzo | Elena Tremolizzo (b. 1972) is an attitude and orbit control systems engineer at the European Space A |
| 11941 | Archinal | An active amateur astronomer, Brent Archinal (b. 1956) specializes in correcting catalog data for st |
| 11942 | Guettard | Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715-1786) was a French geologist and mineralogist. From the evidence of fos |
| 11946 | Bayle | French philosopher Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) wrote the Dictionnaire historique et critique. B |
| 11950 | Morellet | Abbé André Morellet (1727-1819) left his Mémoirs sur le XVIIIe siècle et la Révolution (1821) |
| 11958 | Galiani | Abbé Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787), secretary at the Neapolitan Embassy in Paris from 1759 to 1769, |
| 11964 | Prigogine | Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003) was honored with the 1977 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on non-eq |
| 11966 | Plateau | Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801-1883) was a Belgian physicist who stated the so-called “Plate |
| 11967 | Boyle | Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was a British physicist and philosopher well known for his experiments with |
| 11968 | Demariotte | Edmé de Mariotte (1620-1684) was a French physicist who discovered independently of Boyle that the v |
| 11969 | Gay-Lussac | Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) was a French chemist and physicist, one of the founders of meteo |
| 11980 | Ellis | Kerry Ellis (b. 1965) wrote a thesis at the University of Western Ontario in electrical engineering |
| 11984 | Manet | French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was a pivotal figure in the transition of realism to impres |
| 11997 | Fassel | Deborah Elizabeth Fassel (b. 1950) and Charles Sebastian Fassel (b. 1955) are amateur astronomers wh |
| 12001 | Gasbarini | Ron Gasbarini (b. 1960) is an amateur astronomer whose interest was inspired by the Apollo missions |
| 12005 | Delgiudice | Maria del Giudice (b. 1964) was a good and great friend of one of the team's observers and measurers |
| 12007 | Fermat | Pierre Fermat (1601-1665), a lawyer in Toulouse, is considered the greatest amateur mathematician of |
| 12008 | Kandrup | An exceptional researcher, teacher and mentor at the University of Florida, Henry E. Kandrup (1955-2 |
| 12022 | Hilbert | David Hilbert (1862-1943), professor at Göttingen and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time |
| 12032 | Ivory | James Ivory (1765-1842), Scottish mathematician and professor at the Royal Military College, publish |
| 12040 | Jacobi | Carl G. J. Jacobi (1804-1851), professor at Königsberg and Berlin, developed the theory of elliptic |
| 12042 | Laques | Pierre Laques (b. 1934) started his career at the private observatory of the Chateau D´Abadia near H |
| 12045 | Klein | Felix Klein (1849-1925) was a professor of mathematics at Erlangen and later at Göttingen. Deeply i |
| 12064 | Guiraudon | In 1961 Jean-Claude Guiraudon founded the Fédération Nationale des Clubs Scientifiques, which later |
| 12067 | Jeter | Crystal Lynn Jeter (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering F |
| 12073 | Larimer | Curtis James Larimer (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12075 | Legg | Tiffany Amelia Legg (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12089 | Maichin | Diana Marie Maichin (b. 1983) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12094 | Mazumder | Mark Mohan Mazumder (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12095 | Pinel | Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), a French physician who made revolutionary contributions to the treatment |
| 12101 | Trujillo | Chadwick A. Trujillo (b. 1973), of the California Institue of Technology, specializes in the study o |
| 12102 | Piazzolla | Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was an Argentinean composer best known for his distinct nuevo tango. Hi |
| 12104 | Chesley | Steven R. Chesley (b. 1965), of the Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is |
| 12112 | Sprague | Ann Sprague (b. 1946) is a senior research associate with the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the |
| 12113 | Hollows | New Zealand-born Fred Hollows (1929-1993) was an ophthalmologist who saved the sight of thousands of |
| 12118 | Mirotsin | Yauhen Adolfovich Mirotsin (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 12128 | Palermiti | Director of an observatory in Florida, Mike Palermiti (b. 1949) provides expert consultation to the |
| 12131 | Echternach | As assistant editor of the Dutch astronomical magazine Zenit, Dutch science writer Eddy Echte |
| 12133 | Titulaer | Dutch astronomer and science writer Chriet Titulaer (b. 1943) is a popularizer of astronomy and spac |
| 12135 | Terlingen | Dutch journalist Henk Terlingen (1941-1994) presented the Apollo moon missions on Dutch television. |
| 12143 | Harwit | Czech-born American astrophysicist Martin O. Harwit (b. 1931) pioneered infrared observations and sp |
| 12145 | Behaim | Martin Behaim (1459-1507) was a German merchant, astronomer and cosmographer from Nürnberg. He trav |
| 12146 | Ostriker | Jeremiah P. Ostriker (b. 1937) is an American astrophysicist who has contributed to many fields of t |
| 12147 | Bramante | Donato Bramante (1444-1514) was an Italian architect of the high Renaissance, working mainly in Mila |
| 12148 | Caravaggio | Michelangelo Merist da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian artist of the Renaissance. He was almo |
| 12149 | Begas | Begas is the name of a German family of nineteenth-century artists, of whom the best known was Roman |
| 12150 | De Ruyter | Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607-1676), in Dutch history a famous admiral, played a decisive rol |
| 12156 | Ubels | Egbert Ubels (1969-2008) was a fantastic father to Nick and Dagmar and the beloved husband of Sandra |
| 12157 | Können | Günther Peter Können (b. 1944), a researcher at the Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, |
| 12158 | Tape | Walter Tape (b. 1941) is an Alaskan mathematician. With his book Atmospheric halos he made a |
| 12161 | Avienius | Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius, who lived in the second half of the fourth century, was a Latin po |
| 12162 | Bilderdijk | Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831) was a Dutch poet and scholar who composed two didactic astronomical po |
| 12165 | Ringleb | Peter Ringleb (b. 1965), a neurologist in the apoplectic department of the Heidelberg University hos |
| 12168 | Polko | Norbert Polko (b. 1944) has scanned more than 200~000 glass plates---a world record---from the large |
| 12169 | Munsterman | Henk Munsterman (b. 1946), an amateur astrophotographer in the Netherlands, is known for his photogr |
| 12173 | Lansbergen | Philippus Lansbergen (1561-1632), Calvanist minister and active astronomical researcher in Middelbur |
| 12176 | Hidayat | Bambang Hidayat (b. 1934) is an active promotor of astronomy in Indonesia. Known for his work on vis |
| 12177 | Raharto | Indonesian astronomer Moedji Raharto (b. 1954) is senior lecturer at the Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| 12180 | Kistemaker | Jacob Kistemaker (1917-2010), Teylers professor at Leiden University, was a pioneer in isotope separ |
| 12218 | Fleischer | Randall Craig Fleischer (b. 1959) is the ebullient and multi-talented music director and conductor o |
| 12223 | Hoskin | Michael A. Hoskin (b. 1930) founded the Journal for the History of Astronomy in 1970 and has |
| 12227 | Penney | Big John Penney is representative of the team of workers who find a deep and abiding love for the ch |
| 12229 | Paulsson | Rolf Paulsson (b. 1943), a lecturer at Uppsala University, has been an outstanding teacher of theore |
| 12237 | Coughlin | Thomas B. Coughlin (b. 1941) served as NEAR project manager throughout the development, launch and m |
| 12257 | Lassine | George Lassine (1953-2003) was a member of the Belgian astronomical club Astronomie Centre Ardenne-N |
| 12261 | Ledouanier | Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier, 1844-1910) was a French painter and the originator of modern naive art |
| 12267 | Denneau | Larry Denneau (b. 1968) graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, plays ke |
| 12282 | Crombecq | Michelle Crombecq (b. 1946) works as a secretary at the port of Antwerp. She was also one of the fir |
| 12284 | Pohl | Frederik Pohl (b. 1919) is a U.S. science-fiction writer whose vivid imagination and stirring tales |
| 12286 | Poiseuille | Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille (1797-1869) was a French physicist and physiologist who, through his wor |
| 12289 | Carnot | Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) was a French physicist known for his caloric investigations. |
| 12292 | Dalton | John Dalton (1766-1844) was a British chemist known for his A new System of chemical Philosophy |
| 12294 | Avogadro | Lorenzo Avogadro (1776-1856) was an Italian chemist who suggested that equal volumes of gases at the |
| 12295 | Tasso | Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was an Italian writer and poet known for his Gerusalemme liberata |
| 12301 | Eötvös | Loránd Eötvös (1848-1919) was a Hungarian physicist who played a leading part in Hungarian science f |
| 12311 | Ingemyr | Mikael Ingemyr (b. 1991), a student at the high school for space studies in Kiruna, was one of the w |
| 12320 | Loschmidt | Czech physicist Josef Loschmidt (1821-1895) used the kinetic theory of gases to get the first reason |
| 12353 | Màrquez | Gabriel García Màrquez (1927-2014) was a Columbian novelist, considered as one of the most significa |
| 12355 | Coelho | Paulo Coelho (b. 1947), a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, is well-known for his 1988 novel The A |
| 12359 | Cajigal | With his founding in 1831 of the Military Academy of Mathematics, Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo (180 |
| 12368 | Mutsaers | Utrecht-born Charlotte Mutsaers (b. 1942) is a painter, woodcutter and writer. Her highly acclaimed |
| 12369 | Pirandello | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was a Sicilian writer who suffered from personal tragedy, leading him t |
| 12379 | Thulin | Ingrid Thulin (1929-2004) was a Swedish screen actor who became famous through her performance as Ma |
| 12380 | Sciascia | Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), a Sicilian novelist and polemicist, wrote many books revolving around |
| 12398 | Pickhardt | Wilhelm Pickhardt (b. 1923) studied geology at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn |
| 12414 | Bure | Pavel Bure (b. 1971) is an outstanding Russian sportsman, a world hockey champion and star of the Na |
| 12423 | Slotin | As a result of an accident on 1946 May 21 at the Los Alamos laboratory, Louis Alexander Slotin (1910 |
| 12433 | Barbieri | Giovanni Barbieri (b. 1941) is an amateur astronomer in the Montelupo Group. |
| 12470 | Pinotti | Roberto Pinotti (b. 1944), after getting his degree in political science in 1972, became a writer an |
| 12481 | Streuvels | Stijn Streuvels (pseudonym of Frank Lateur, 1871-1969) was a Flemish novelist and a nephew of the po |
| 12496 | Ekholm | As a promising planetary scientist, Andreas G. Ekholm (1975-2001) contributed to the fields of impac |
| 12498 | Dragesco | Jean Dragesco (b. 1920) is an accomplished biologist and amateur astronomer. For many years, using |
| 12504 | Nuest | Jennifer Elizabeth Nuest (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 12506 | Pariser | Andrew Robert Pariser (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 12509 | Pathak | Madhav Dilip Pathak (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12513 | Niven | Ivan M. Niven (1915-1999) was a Canadian-U.S. mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. In |
| 12514 | Schommer | Robert A. Schommer (1946-2001) was an astronomer at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory. He was |
| 12517 | Grayzeck | After years of research in galactic structure, Edwin J. Grayzeck (b. 1945) became an expert on archi |
| 12519 | Pullen | Sarah Adele Pullen (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering F |
| 12522 | Rara | Prem Vilas Fortran Moso Rara (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 12524 | Conscience | Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883) was a founder of Flemish literature. Although he started writing in F |
| 12526 | de Coninck | Herman de Coninck (1944-1997) was a Flemish poet and critic. His poems are profound and yet accessib |
| 12529 | Reighard | Chelsea Lynne Reighard (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineeri |
| 12530 | Richardson | Aaron Cole Richardson (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineerin |
| 12539 | Chaikin | Andrew L. Chaikin (b. 1956) is a renowned author and space historian whose interests include the Apo |
| 12542 | Laver | Rodney Laver (b. 1938) is a tennis player from the discoverer's home state of Queensland and widely |
| 12561 | Howard | Ron Howard (b. 1954) is a noted director of such films as Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind |
| 12567 | Herreweghe | Philippe Herreweghe (b. 1945) has studied medicine and psychiatry at Ghent University, combining thi |
| 12568 | Kuffner | Moriz von Kuffner (1854-1939) was a brewer, alpinist and the founder of a private observatory in Vie |
| 12572 | Sadegh | Cameron Sadegh (b. 1984) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair |
| 12576 | Oresme | Nicole Oresme (c. 1323-1382), bishop of Lisieux, conceived the representation of time-varying quanti |
| 12577 | Samra | Shamsher Singh Samra (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12580 | Antonini | Pierre Antonini is a retired mathematics professor who has discovered many minor planets and a super |
| 12598 | Sierra | Elizabeth Sierra (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fai |
| 12611 | Ingres | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was a French painter whose work embraced both classicism a |
| 12612 | Daumier | Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a great French painter and lithographer. Among his many satirical and |
| 12613 | Hogarth | William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter and copper-plate engraver. His rendition of life |
| 12616 | Lochner | Stephan Lochner (?-1451) is a well-known painter of the Cologne school. He painted altar pictures an |
| 12618 | Cellarius | Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596-1665), a German schoolmaster from Neuhausen near Worms, settled in Amster |
| 12622 | Doppelmayr | German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (1677-1750) worked in Nü |
| 12625 | Koopman | Elizabetha Koopman (1647-1693), daughter of a Dutch merchant, was the second wife of Polish astronom |
| 12626 | Timmerman | Dutch poetess Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1724-1786) was educated in astronomy and mathematics |
| 12630 | Verstappen | René Verstappen (b. 1948) has been comptroller of the Dutch center for dissemination of information |
| 12636 | Padrielli | Italian radio-astronomer Lucia Padrielli (1943-2003) was closely involved in the “northern cross” ra |
| 12646 | Avercamp | Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter during |
| 12650 | de Vries | Martien de Vries (b. 1932) is a Dutch astronomer who was part of a small group who developed the fir |
| 12663 | Björkegren | Named after the family Björkegren, friends and neigbours of the discoverer's summer house on Gotland |
| 12671 | Thörnqvist | Owe Thörnqvist (b. 1929) is a singer-songwriter who has written a large number of songs, many about |
| 12672 | Nygårdh | Hans Cristian Nygårdh (b. 1950) is one of the most prolific compilers of cross-words in Sweden. |
| 12673 | Kiselman | Dan Kiselman (b. 1963) is a solar physicist, who was for many years the secretary of the Swedish Ast |
| 12675 | Chabot | Anthony Chabot (1813-1888), one of the pioneering hydraulic engineers of the late ninteenth century |
| 12687 | de Valory | Guy Louis Henri, Marquis de Valory (1692-1774), was a French aristocrat, well known from his friends |
| 12688 | Baekeland | Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) was a Flemish chemist and inventor who in 1890 discovered a new ki |
| 12696 | Camus | French novelist and essayist Albert Camus (1913-1960), well known for his novels L´Etranger a |
| 12697 | Verhaeren | The Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916), although writing exclusively in French, took much insp |
| 12701 | Chénier | André Chénier (1762-1794) was a French poet who died on the scaffold. The son of a Greek mother and |
| 12715 | Godin | Louis Godin (1704-1760) was a French astronomer who proposed to send expeditions to the equator and |
| 12718 | Le Gentil | Guillaume-Joseph Le Gentil (1725-1792) was a French astronomer who discovered several deep-sky objec |
| 12719 | Pingré | Alexandre-Guy Pingré (1711-1796), a French astronomer, was sent by the king to the isle of Rodrigue |
| 12722 | Petrarca | Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was an Italian poet famous for his Sonnets (1327-1374), which |
| 12727 | Cavendish | Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was a British eccentric and a physicist. In 1798 he successfully determi |
| 12742 | Delisle | Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) was a French astronomer who went to Russia, where he founded the |
| 12750 | Berthollet | Claude-Louis Berthollet (1748-1822) was a French chemist who analyzed ammonia and prussic acid. Howe |
| 12753 | Povenmire | Katie Povenmire, a coronary critical care nurse, is a skilled observer of the skies with her husband |
| 12755 | Balmer | Johann J. Balmer (1825-1898) was a Swiss high-school teacher who examined the four visible lines in |
| 12759 | Joule | James Joule (1818-1889) was an English physicist who attempted to demonstrate the unity of forces in |
| 12760 | Maxwell | James Maxwell (1831-1879) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist, working in the discipline of e |
| 12761 | Pauwels | Thierry Pauwels (b. 1958) is an astrometrist at the Royal Observatory at Uccle. He became interested |
| 12766 | Paschen | Louis Paschen (1865-1947) was a German physicist and an outstanding spectroscopist. In 1895, he inve |
| 12773 | Lyman | Theodore Lyman (1874-1954) was an American physicist who discovered, in 1906, a group of lines in th |
| 12774 | Pfund | August Hermann Pfund (1879-1949) was a American physicist and professor of optics at Baltimore Unive |
| 12775 | Brackett | U.S. physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896-1988) predicted the far-infrared lines of the hydroge |
| 12776 | Reynolds | Osbourne Reynolds (1842-1912) was a British engineer and physicist known for his work in fluid dynam |
| 12780 | Salamony | As creative director for Sky Publishing for 10 years, Sandra Noel Salamony (b. 1962) guided the over |
| 12812 | Cioni | Giovanni Cioni (1943-2002) was an amateur astronomer of the Montelupo Group. |
| 12828 | Batteas | Frank Batteas (b. 1955) is a pilot for the F/A-18 and C-17 flight research projects at NASA's Dryden |
| 12834 | Bomben | Craig R. Bomben (b. 1962) is a pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Cent |
| 12843 | Ewers | Richard G. Ewers (b. 1946) is a pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Cen |
| 12845 | Crick | Francis Crick (1916-2004) was a British scientist who proposed, together with J. D. Watson, the doub |
| 12846 | Fullerton | C. Gordon Fullerton (b. 1936) is a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, |
| 12852 | Teply | Grant Paul Teply (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fai |
| 12855 | Tewksbury | Carolyn Morgan Tewksbury (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 12860 | Turney | Shannon Quinn Turney (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12861 | Wacker | David Hubbell Wacker (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 12863 | Whitfield | Meghan Elizabeth Whitfield (b. 1985) is a finalist in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 12868 | Onken | Christopher S. Onken (b. 1979) was a summer student at the Lowell Observatory in 1998. As an observ |
| 12893 | Mommert | Michael Mommert (b. 1982) has analysed Herschel and Spitzer space telescope observations of transnep |
| 12895 | Balbastre | Claude-Bénigme Balbastre (1729-1799) was a French composer who, after writing more-or-less academic |
| 12897 | Bougeret | Jean-Louis Bougeret (b. 1945) is Director of the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation |
| 12898 | Mignard | François Mignard (b. 1949) is Director of CERGA (Centre d´Etudes et de Recherches en Géodynamique et |
| 12908 | Yagudina | Eleonora Ivanovna Yagudina (b. 1941) is a staff member at the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the |
| 12910 | Deliso | Joseph John Deliso (1906-1994), contractor, manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist, served |
| 12911 | Goodhue | Samuel Harlowe Goodhue (b. 1921), engineer and alpinist of Jackson, New Hampshire, was Chairman of t |
| 12932 | Conedera | Marina Conedera (b. 1962) is the wife of the discoverer. |
| 12934 | Bisque | Since 1984 Stephen (b. 1960), Thomas (b. 1963), Daniel (b. 1965) and Matthew (b. 1966) Bisque have b |
| 12984 | Lowry | Stephen C. Lowry (b. 1976) is an astronomer who performs precise observations of cometary nuclei to |
| 13001 | Woodney | Laura M. Woodney (b. 1970), now at the Lowell Observatory, recently completed her doctoral dissertat |
| 13004 | Aldaz | Meteorologist Luis Aldaz (b. 1925) was scientific leader at two Antarctic stations: Byrd (1959-1960) |
| 13006 | Schwaar | Pierre-Yves Schwaar (1946-2000) was a well-regarded amateur optician and telescope maker. He was al |
| 13011 | Loeillet | Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (or L'Oeillet) is the name of two different composers, who were both born in |
| 13014 | Hasslacher | Marian Brasseau Hasslacher (1901-1997) and Charles Alfred (Carl) Hasslacher (1897-1973), maternal gr |
| 13027 | Geeraerts | Jef Geeraerts (Jozef Adriaan Anna van der Heiden, b. 1930) is a Flemish author. After serving as an |
| 13038 | Woolston | Thomas Woolston (1669-1731) was an English deist who advocated the allegorical interpretation of the |
| 13045 | Vermandere | Willem Vermandere (b. 1940), a Flemish singer of countryside songs, performs in the colorful West Fl |
| 13052 | Las Casas | Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1565) was a Catholic priest who fought for the rights of the Indians an |
| 13057 | Jorgensen | Carl Jorgensen (b. 1948) is a well-known amateur astronomer from Montreal. In the 1960s he chaired |
| 13059 | Ducuroir | Amateur astronomer Marc Ducuroir (1932-2003), secretary of the Société Royale Belge d´Astronomie dur |
| 13063 | Purifoy | Dana D. Purifoy (b. 1955) is a pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Cent |
| 13064 | Haemhouts | Ben Haemhouts (b. 1972) is a Belgian conductor, trombonist and composer, who studied during 1999-200 |
| 13082 | Gutiérrez | Pedro J. Gutiérrez (b.~1972) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía--Consejo Superior de Inves |
| 13085 | Borlaug | Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009), a U.S. agronomist and a central figure in the “green revolution”, |
| 13087 | Chastellux | François-Jean de Chastellux (1734-1788), author of De la félicité publique (1757), was a foun |
| 13097 | Lamoraal | Lamoraal, Count of Egmont (1522-1568), was a Flemish nobleman. Together with William of Orange and |
| 13101 | Fransson | Claes Fransson (b. 1951) is a professor in astronomy at Stockholm University, who works on supernova |
| 13109 | Berzelius | The Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) discovered the chemical law of constant proport |
| 13111 | Papacosmas | Constantine Papacosmas (b. 1939) an accomplished amateur astronomer in Montreal has guided thousands |
| 13118 | La Harpe | Jean François de la Harpe (1739-1803) was a French writer and a bitter and caustic man. Although uns |
| 13123 | Tyson | Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 1958) is the youngest-ever director of New York's Hayden Planetarium. He sp |
| 13132 | Ortelius | Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer. Creator of the first modern |
| 13147 | Foglia | In Milan, amateur astronomer Sergio Foglia (b. 1972) has observed minor planets, comets, variable st |
| 13157 | Searfoss | Richard A. Searfoss (b. 1956) served as a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Ed |
| 13174 | Timossi | Aldo Timossi (b. 1946) is a promoter of conventions, workshops and scientific meetings related to th |
| 13178 | Catalan | Eugène Charles Catalan (1814-1894) was a French-Belgian mathematician, known in particular for the “ |
| 13180 | Fourcroy | Antoine-François de Fourcroy (1755-1809) was a French chemist and co-founder of the Ecole polytechni |
| 13192 | Quine | Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908), American logician and philosopher, was initially trained in mathe |
| 13206 | Baer | James J. Baer (b. 1965), a member of the Faculty of Mathematics at South University, is an expert in |
| 13208 | Fraschetti | George Fraschetti (b. 1941) is a technical advisor and contributor to the NEAT instruments. During |
| 13211 | Stucky | Mark P. Stucky (b. 1958) served as a NASA research pilot at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas |
| 13213 | Maclaurin | Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) is known for his “Taylor adapted series”, which h |
| 13219 | Cailletet | French physicist Louis-Paul Cailletet (1832-1913) was the first to liquefy oxygen, nitrogen, hydroge |
| 13231 | Blondelet | Jacques Blondelet (1934-1998) was a former president of the Société Lorraine d´Astronomie and vice p |
| 13238 | Lambeaux | Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908) was a Belgian sculptor who belonged to the Van Beers Clique, a group of you |
| 13240 | Thouvay | Jacqueline Thouvay (b. 1939) manages the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astr |
| 13241 | Biyo | Josette Biyo (b. 1958), a 2002 Intel Excellence in Teaching Award finalist, is a teacher at the Phil |
| 13248 | Fornasier | Sonia Fornasier (b. 1972), of Padua Observatory, works on the physical properties of cisjovian and t |
| 13251 | Viot | Hervé Viot (b. 1961) built the CCD camera used for the ODAS survey. He was also involved in many oth |
| 13253 | Stejneger | Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851-1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist and author of more t |
| 13254 | Kekulé | In 1865 German chemist Friedrich Kekulé (1829-1896) discovered the structure of benzene as a six-mem |
| 13269 | Dahlstrom | Kurt Martin Dahlstrom (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 13278 | Grotecloss | Kristin Shannon Grotecloss (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Cha |
| 13279 | Gutman | Jennifer Erin Gutman (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 13294 | Rockox | Nicolaas Rockox (1560-1640), a humanist and maecenas, was a highly respected citizen in Antwerp. A |
| 13298 | Namatjira | Landscape painter Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) was one of Australia's greatest artists. As an abori |
| 13302 | Kezmoh | Lorren J. Kezmoh (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DC |
| 13316 | Llano | Rayden Llano (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) |
| 13319 | Michaelmi | Michael Mi (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 13326 | Ferri | Francesca Ferri (b. 1967) is a planetary scientist at the University of Padua. She is involved in sp |
| 13327 | Reitsema | Harold J. Reitsema (b. 1948), of Ball Aerospace, Boulder, has been a participant in many of the succ |
| 13328 | Guetter | Harry Hendrik Guetter (b. 1935) was an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station fr |
| 13332 | Benkhoff | Johannes Benkhoff (b. 1961) is a planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin- |
| 13333 | Carsenty | Uri Carsenty (b. 1949) is an Israeli planetary scientist working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR |
| 13334 | Tost | Wilfried Tost (b. 1952) is a system manager at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof |
| 13350 | Gmelin | Johan Georg Gmelin (1709-1755) was a German naturalist who was appointed professor of chemistry and |
| 13352 | Gyssens | Marc Gyssens (b. 1959) is a researcher on databases. A life-long commitment to the popularization o |
| 13357 | Werkhoven | Margaretha Cornelia Maria Werkhoven (b. 1946) is a Dutch-Surinamese botanist at the National Herbari |
| 13358 | Revelle | Douglas O. ReVelle, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is well known for his pioneering theoreti |
| 13376 | Dunphy | Desmond Plunket Dunphy (1920-1998) was an Irish medical doctor. In a career lasting from 1945 to 19 |
| 13395 | Deconihout | A French amateur astronomer who applies his skills to telescope construction, Serge Deconihout is th |
| 13396 | Midavaine | Thierry Midavaine is vice-president of the Association Française d´Astronomie. A dedicated observer |
| 13404 | Norris | Noele Rosalie Norris (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 13412 | Guerrieri | Mary Guerrieri (b. 1966) has supported astronomical research at the University of Arizona. She serv |
| 13414 | Grantham | James Grantham (b. 1966) is the observatory operations supervisor at the Steward Observatory Mt. Lem |
| 13416 | Berryman | Jay Berryman (b. 1980) is a member of the Mountain Operations team for Steward Observatory at the Un |
| 13421 | Holvorcem | Brazilian mathematician Paulo Holvorcem (b. 1967) has developed new numerical methods for simulating |
| 13433 | Phelps | Kels Gordon Phelps (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 13435 | Rohret | Sasha Annalicia Rohret (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challen |
| 13473 | Hokema | Peter Hokema (b. 1955) is a German violinist and maker of musical instruments. He developed several |
| 13493 | Lockwood | George W. (“Wes”) Lockwood (b. 1941), an astronomer at Lowell Observatory since 1973, is an expert o |
| 13499 | Steinberg | Jean Louis Steinberg (b. 1922) is a co-founder of the Nançay Radio Observatory and Astronomy and |
| 13500 | Viscardy | Georges Viscardy (b. 1917) is the founder of the Société Monégasque d´Astronomie and of the Observat |
| 13523 | Vanhassel | André Vanhassel (b. 1927) studied classical philology at Ghent University and philosophy at the Univ |
| 13526 | Libbrecht | Ulrich Libbrecht (b. 1928) is a Belgian philosopher. An authority in the field of Eastern and compa |
| 13530 | Ninnemann | Olaf Ninnemann (b. 1947), German mathematician and leading expert in the field of information and do |
| 13543 | Butler | John Christopher “Chris” Butler (b. 1964) is a prolific astronomical artist who has painted numerous |
| 13551 | Gadsden | Michael Gadsden (1933-2003) worked during the International Geophysical Year on airglow and aurorae |
| 13554 | Decleir | Hugo Decleir (b. 1939) is Professor Emeritus in the geography department of the University of Brusse |
| 13560 | La Pérouse | In 1785 French navigator Jean-François Galoup, Comte de La Pérouse (1741-1788), sailed along the coa |
| 13583 | Bosret | Nicolas Bosret (1799-1876) was a blind composer and organist at the Cathedral St. Loup in Namur. In |
| 13606 | Bean | During the Apollo 12 mission to Oceanus Procellarum Alan LaVerne Bean (b. 1932) became the fourth pe |
| 13609 | Lewicki | Christopher A. Lewicki (b. 1974) is an engineer working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he i |
| 13615 | Manulis | Ilan Manulis (b. 1949) has enthusiastically promoted the study of near-earth objects from Israel and |
| 13620 | Moynahan | Dan Moynahan (b. 1971) is a computer programmer working at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Pla |
| 13622 | McArthur | Guy McArthur (b. 1971) is a talented programmer working at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Pla |
| 13633 | Ivens | John Ivens (b. 1964) is a computer programmer working at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Plane |
| 13641 | de Lesseps | Jean-Baptiste de Lesseps (1766-1834), a French diplomat and writer, was a member of the scientific e |
| 13642 | Ricci | Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853-1925) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua. Bui |
| 13647 | Rey | In Amsterdam from 1744 onward, Marc-Michel Rey (1720-1780) was a major figure in the publishing hist |
| 13652 | Elowitz | Mark Elowitz (b. 1961) is a space scientist with a wide range of experience. He contributed to the V |
| 13657 | Badinter | Elisabeth Badinter (Bleustein-Blanchet, b. 1944) is a French author, feminist and philosopher. Spec |
| 13658 | Sylvester | James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) studied at Cambridge and was the founder, together with Cayley, o |
| 13668 | Tanner | Roger Tanner (b. 1950) has spent the last eight years at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Plane |
| 13669 | Swammerdam | Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) was one of the first entomologists to use the microscope to study insects |
| 13672 | Tarski | Alfred Tarski (1902-1983), Polish-born American mathematician and logician and professor at the Univ |
| 13673 | Urysohn | Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (1898-1924) was a Russian topologist. Much of his research centered on th |
| 13674 | Bourge | Pierre Bourge (b. 1921) founded what was later to become the Association Française d´Astronomie in 1 |
| 13693 | Bondar | Roberta Lynn Bondar (b. 1945), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle missi |
| 13700 | Connors | Martin Gerard Connors (b. 1954), an associate professor at Athabasca University since 1996, was appo |
| 13703 | Romero | Oscar Romero (1917-1980) was an archbishop in El Salvador. During his mission he actively denounced |
| 13705 | Llapasset | Jean-Marie Llapasset is a highly active French amateur astronomer. His main interest is the CCD obs |
| 13714 | Stainbrook | Haileigh Kate Stainbrook (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chall |
| 13715 | Steed | Jared Benjamin Steed (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 13716 | Trevino | Aron Michael Trevino (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 13717 | Vencill | Kory Aaron Vencill (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 13718 | Welcker | Kelydra Elizabeth Welcker (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chal |
| 13724 | Schwehm | Gerhard Schwehm (b. 1949) is head of the Planetary Missions Division of ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, and Pr |
| 13730 | Willis | Emily Kathleen Willis (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 13732 | Woodall | Ashley Renee Woodall (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 13743 | Rivkin | Andrew S. Rivkin (b. 1969), of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has wide-ranging interests |
| 13760 | Rodriguez | Maria Rodriguez mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 13764 | Mcalanis | Edith McAlanis mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 13766 | Bonham | Dan Bonham mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a midd |
| 13770 | Commerson | Philibert Commerson (1727-1773) was a French naturalist, botanist and explorer. In 1764 he joined Bo |
| 13774 | Spurný | Pavel Spurný (b. 1958), of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republ |
| 13775 | Thébault | Philippe Thébault (b. 1969), of Paris Observatory, is an expert on the dynamics of small solar syste |
| 13801 | Kohlhase | Charles Kohlhase (b. 1935) has been a pioneer in the design, development and execution of planetary |
| 13816 | Stülpner | Karl Stülpner (1762-1841), a popular hero of Germany's Ore Mountains, lived in Scharfenstein, near D |
| 13818 | Ullery | Elaine Ullery mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 13820 | Schwartz | Michael Schwartz (b. 1950) contributes to professional-amateur cooperative discovery and measurement |
| 13824 | Kramlik | Thomas Kramlik mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 13825 | Booth | Tempest Diane Booth mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC |
| 13848 | Cioffi | Named in honor of Jessica Cioffi for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chal |
| 13849 | Dunn | Named in honor of Deborah A. Dunn for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Cha |
| 13850 | Erman | Named in honor of Sister Dolores Erman for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientis |
| 13852 | Ford | Named in honor of Ralph Ford for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challeng |
| 13857 | Stafford | Gregory Stafford (b. 1963) is an electronics engineer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observa |
| 13860 | Neely | A. W. Neely (b. 1951) codesigned, constructed and operated one of the first completely automated rem |
| 13869 | Fruge | Named in honor of Norma A. Fruge for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chal |
| 13908 | Wölbern | Ingo Wölbern (b. 1970) is a German geophysicist who has investigated the nature of the Hawaiian mant |
| 13915 | Yalow | In 1977 Rosalyn Yalow (b. 1921) became the first American woman (and second woman ever) to be awarde |
| 13917 | Correggia | Matteo Correggia (1962-2001), from the Roero region of Piemonte, was one of the most exceptional Ita |
| 13921 | Sgarbini | Bruno Sgarbini (b. 1957) directs the “G. C. Gloriosi” amateur astronomical observatory in Montecorvi |
| 13927 | Grundy | Arthur Francis Grundy (b. 1928) taught mathematics at Emanuel School, London, from 1957 to 1993. The |
| 13952 | Nykvist | Sven Nykvist (1922-2006), a Swedish cinematographer, was especially well known for his work with Ing |
| 13962 | Delambre | French astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) observed the 1796 transit of Mercury, al |
| 13980 | Neuhauser | For more that 30 years, Philipp D. Neuhauser (b. 1930) was a key member of the Public Affairs Office |
| 13982 | Thunberg | Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), one of the last pupils of Linnaeus, is considered the greatest bota |
| 13994 | Tuominen | Oulu astronomer Ilkka Tuominen works on the solar cycle, late-type star activity and astrophysical m |
| 14015 | Senancour | Etienne Pivert de Senancour (1770-1846), a French essayist and philosopher, is considered one of the |
| 14016 | Steller | Appointed naturalist on Vitus Bering's second Kamchatka expedition, German botanist Georg Wilhelm St |
| 14026 | Esquerdo | Gil Esquerdo (b. 1976), a former research assistant at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, wa |
| 14065 | Flegel | Mike Flegel (b. 1955), an amateur astronomer and life member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Ca |
| 14072 | Volterra | Vito Volterra (1860-1940), professor successively at Pisa, Turin and Rome, developed a general theor |
| 14092 | Gaily | T. Dean Gaily (b. 1934) was an acclaimed professor in the physics department at the University of We |
| 14094 | Garneau | Marc Garneau (b. 1949) was the first Canadian in space and was appointed president of the Canadian S |
| 14115 | Melaas | Kathleen Melaas mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14116 | Ogea | Amanda H. Ogea mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14120 | Espenak | Fred Espenak Jr. (b. 1952), of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is widely recognized for his calcul |
| 14121 | Stüwe | Joachim A. Stüwe (b. 1958), of the Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, has catalogued |
| 14122 | Josties | F. Jerry Josties (b. 1937) worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory for more than four decades. He manag |
| 14129 | DiBucci | Janet DiBucci mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 14134 | Penkala | Brad Penkala mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a mi |
| 14141 | Demeautis | Christophe Demeautis is an amateur astronomer who has been the leader and caretaker of observations |
| 14143 | Hadfield | Chris Austin Hadfield (b. 1959), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1992, flew on space shuttle mis |
| 14154 | Negrelli | David Negrelli mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14164 | Hennigar | Donald M. Hennigar (1887-1951) was an amateur telescope maker and active member of the Royal Astrono |
| 14179 | Skinner | Christopher J. Skinner (1963-1997), teacher of the discoverer, worked at Jodrell Bank, the Lawrence |
| 14182 | Alley | Karen Alley mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a mid |
| 14185 | Van Ness | Michael E. Van Ness (b. 1974) has been an observer for LONEOS since 1998. He is interested in archa |
| 14189 | Sèvre | François Sèvre (b. 1948) started his career as an infrared astronomy engineer at Meudon Observatory. |
| 14203 | Hocking | Wayne Keith Hocking (b. 1955) has studied atmospheric and radar physics and constructed radar system |
| 14214 | Hirsch | Theresa Hirsch mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14223 | Dolby | John Dolby (b. 1961) was a telescope operator at the University of New Mexico's Capilla Peak Observa |
| 14224 | Gaede | Named in honor of Allison Gaede for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chall |
| 14244 | Labnow | Named in honor of Troy Labnow for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challen |
| 14262 | Kratzer | Sherri Kratzer mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14267 | Zook | Herbert A. (“Herb”) Zook (1932-2001) was a planetary scientist who advanced the understanding of the |
| 14274 | Landstreet | John Darlington Landstreet (b. 1940) is on the faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He help |
| 14277 | Parsa | Named in honor of Steve Parsa for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challen |
| 14278 | Perrenot | Named in honor of Valerie T. Perrenot for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist |
| 14282 | Cruijff | Hendrik Johannes (“Johan”) Cruijff (b. 1947) is a legendary Dutch football player who also became su |
| 14309 | Defoy | Until 1580 the ancestors of the Defoy family were landowners at Foy, near Bastogne, now in Belgium. |
| 14327 | Lemke | Dietrich Lemke (b. 1939), the principal investigator of the ISOPHOT instrument on board ESA's Infrar |
| 14328 | Granvik | Mikael Granvik (b. 1977) is a researcher at the University of Helsinki and Senior research scientist |
| 14348 | Cumming | Robert Cumming (b. 1967) is an astronomer at Onsala Space Observatory. For many years, he was the ed |
| 14382 | Woszczyk | Andrzej Woszczyk (b. 1935) is professor of astrophysics and chair of astronomy and astrophysics of t |
| 14400 | Baudot | Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot (1845-1903) invented a telegraphic code in 1874 that encoded each letter o |
| 14420 | Massey | Steven (Steve) Massey (b. 1962) was a pioneer in the use of modern video cameras in astronomical ima |
| 14428 | Lazaridis | Mike Lazaridis (b. 1961) founded a technology company specializing in mobile communications, in Wate |
| 14429 | Coyne | George Coyne (b. 1933), S.J., has been an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory since 1969 and its d |
| 14438 | MacLean | Steven Glenwood MacLean (b. 1954), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, is an expert in laser p |
| 14463 | McCarter | David Graham McCarter (b. 1946), an amateur astronomer in London, Ontario, is an indefatigable obser |
| 14466 | Hodge | Paul W. Hodge (b. 1934) is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington and, since 1984, |
| 14467 | Vranckx | Rudy Vranckx (b. 1959), a historian, has been a conflict journalist in the news department of the Fl |
| 14502 | Morden | James C. Morden (1869-1944) was an historian, educator and author in Stamford Township (now Niagara |
| 14505 | Barentine | John Caleb Barentine (b. 1976) has served as an observing specialist at the Apache Point Observatory |
| 14511 | Nickel | Jack Allen “Triple” Nickel (b. 1949) joined the Aircraft Operations Division at NASA's Johnson Space |
| 14533 | Roy | René Roy (b. 1938) is an amateur who has devoted much time to astronomical observations. He was esp |
| 14564 | Heasley | James N. Heasley (b. 1947) completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1973 and studies stellar pulsat |
| 14570 | Burkam | Ann Burkam mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a midd |
| 14574 | Payette | Julie Payette (b. 1963) has been a member of the Canadian astronaut corps since 1992 and flew on spa |
| 14582 | Conlin | Kimberly Conlin mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14583 | Lester | Virginia Lester mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14584 | Lawson | Melissa Lawson mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14588 | Pharrams | Stacey Pharrams mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 14595 | Peaker | Brian Ronald Peaker (b. 1959) is a competitive rower from London, Ontario, who represented Canada wi |
| 14596 | Bergstralh | Jay T. Bergstralh (b. 1943) is a planetary astronomer whose studies have comprised both spectroscopi |
| 14600 | Gainsbourg | Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was a songwriter and an iconic figure in French music. His most famous |
| 14613 | Sanchez | Christian Sanchez is editor-in-chief of the French astronomy magazine Pulsar. A very nice an |
| 14616 | Van Gaal | Hendrik Van Gaal (1916-1998) was a Belgian priest and the founder of Urania, the public observatory |
| 14617 | Lasvergnas | Olivier Las Vergnas (b. 1954) is a former member of the Association Astronomique de Paris en Sorbonn |
| 14621 | Tati | French comic genius Jacques Tati (1908-1982), a film writer, director and actor, is famous for comed |
| 14623 | Kamoun | Paul G. D. Kamoun (b. 1953) has studied the radar detectability of comets. Using the 12.6-cm wavele |
| 14643 | Morata | Didier (b. 1954) and Stephane (b. 1977) Morata observe with a 0.30-m telescope from Martigues, in so |
| 14678 | Pinney | Named in honor of Stacie Pinney for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chall |
| 14683 | Remy | Named in honor of Jennifer M. Remy for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Ch |
| 14684 | Reyes | Named in honor of Cynthia L. Reyes for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Ch |
| 14693 | Selwyn | Named in honor of Marilyn Selwyn for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chal |
| 14694 | Skurat | Named in honor of Sister Karen Skurat for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist |
| 14708 | Slaven | Named in honor of Kathy Slaven for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challe |
| 14719 | Sobey | Named in honor of Glen Sobey for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challeng |
| 14727 | Suggs | Robert Michael Suggs (b. 1955) began working for NASA in 1994 and is space environments team lead in |
| 14728 | Schuchardt | Maria Schuchardt (b. 1955) is the data manager for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Space Imagery |
| 14826 | Nicollier | Born in Vevey, Switzerland, Claude Nicollier (b. 1944) studied astronomy in Geneva and became the fi |
| 14833 | Vilenius | Esa Vilenius (b. 1974) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institut für extraterrestrisc |
| 14835 | Holdridge | Mark E. Holdridge (b. 1960) is an operations manager at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopk |
| 14876 | Dampier | William Dampier (1651-1715) was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world three times. The Br |
| 14885 | Paskoff | Marie-Claude Paskoff is chief editor of the astronomical journal L´Astronomie, founded by Fla |
| 14914 | Moreux | Théophile Moreux (1867-1954), commonly known as “Abbé Moreux”, was a French astronomer and meteorolo |
| 14937 | Thirsk | Robert Brent Thirsk (b. 1953), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle missi |
| 14953 | Bevilacqua | Franco Bevilacqua (b. 1937) is an Italian space engineer. His work since 1961 has been to promote s |
| 14960 | Yule | George Udny Yule (1871-1951), statistician, lecturer at University College, London, and fellow of St |
| 14965 | Bonk | Werner Bonk (b. 1923) is a German engineer and amateur astronomer who has measured several hundred p |
| 14975 | Serasin | Antonietta Serasin (b. 1957) is an amateur astronomer who lives in Padua. |
| 14977 | Bressler | Austrian amateur astronomer Martin Bressler (b. 1912) started his astrometric program on minor plane |
| 14988 | Tryggvason | Bjarni Tryggvason (b. 1945), born in Iceland and raised in Canada, flew on space shuttle mission STS |
| 14989 | Tutte | William Tutte (1918-2002), an expert in combinatorics, was a faculty member at the University of Tor |
| 14990 | Zermelo | Ernst F. F. Zermelo (1871-1953), German mathematician, was mainly interested in the calculus of vari |
| 14994 | Uppenkamp | Wolfgang Uppenkamp (b. 1953) teaches literature in English and German at the Pascal-Gymnasium in Gre |
| 15004 | Vallerani | Ernesto Vallerani (b. 1936) has participated in numerous important European and international scient |
| 15005 | Guerriero | Luciano Guerriero (b. 1930) played a key role in the development of the first Italian National Space |
| 15008 | Delahodde | French astronomer Catherine Delahodde (b. 1974), an active observer and recoverer of several comets, |
| 15019 | Gingold | Julian A. Gingold (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science |
| 15023 | Ketover | Daniel Jacob Ketover (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scien |
| 15031 | Lemus | Bryan A. Lemus (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
| 15037 | Chassagne | Robin Chassagne (b. 1962), a computer engineer for the French Meteorologie Nationale in La Réunion i |
| 15057 | Whitson | Peggy Annette Whitson (b. 1960), who has worked for NASA since 1989, was selected as an astronaut in |
| 15072 | Landolt | Through four decades of meticulous observations, Arlo U. Landolt (b. 1935) has established the widel |
| 15088 | Licitra | Jeffrey Lawrence Licitra (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a s |
| 15091 | Howell | Noted student of cataclysmic variable stars, master of high-precision photometry and explorer of TOA |
| 15106 | Swanson | Named in honor of Marie Swanson for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Chall |
| 15109 | Wilber | Named in honor of Harold T. Wilber for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Ch |
| 15111 | Winters | Named in honor of Marlene K. Winters for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist |
| 15129 | Sparks | Named in honor of Branson B. Sparks for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scient |
| 15132 | Steigmeyer | Named in honor of August J. Steigmeyer for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Sci |
| 15133 | Sullivan | Named in honor of Cole J. Sullivan for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scienti |
| 15144 | Araas | Named in honor of Michael J. Araas for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scienti |
| 15147 | Siegfried | Ray M. Siegfried (b. 1943) is active in numerous civic, business, cultural and community association |
| 15155 | Ahn | Named in honor of Ryan J. Ahn for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Ch |
| 15160 | Wygoda | Named in honor of Jennifer A. Wygoda for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 15224 | Penttilä | Antti Penttilä (b. 1977) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is a speci |
| 15273 | Ruhmkorff | Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff (1803-1877) was a German researcher who invented the Ruhmkorff coil, used in m |
| 15276 | Diebel | John Diebel (b. 1943) is a lifelong amateur astronomer and telescope enthusiast. Thanks largely to |
| 15294 | Underwood | Building plans examiner Lynn Underwood (b. 1949) of Vail, Arizona, has completed successful and inno |
| 15304 | Wikberg | Leonard Wikberg III (b. 1959) is a well-known planetary animator and the creator of extraordinary sp |
| 15338 | Dufault | Named in honor of Michele Dufault (1988-2011), an outstanding astronomy and physics student at Yale |
| 15339 | Pierazzo | Elisabetta Pierazzo (1963-2011) was an expert in impact modeling, in particular of the Chicxulub imp |
| 15355 | Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer showing a remarkable hostility to religion. Impreg |
| 15358 | Kintner | Paul Kintner (1946-2010), professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University, ma |
| 15359 | Dressler | Burkhard Dressler (b. 1939) is a Canadian geologist who has made significant contributions to the fi |
| 15363 | Ysaye | Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931), was a violinist and composer. A student of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski in B |
| 15371 | Steward | The Steward Observatory, named in memory of Lavinia Steward, is the research organization associated |
| 15378 | Artin | Emil Artin (1898-1962) was an Austrian-German mathematician who lived for some years in the United S |
| 15386 | Nicolini | Martino Nicolini, a nuclear engineer, is very active in amateur astronomy. He measures positions of |
| 15389 | Geflorsch | Gérard Florsch (1925-1976) was one of the founders of the Groupe de Lorraine of the Société Astronom |
| 15406 | Bleibtreu | Hermann Karl Bleibtreu (b. 1933), professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, a |
| 15412 | Schaefer | John P. Schaefer (b. 1934), founder, in association with Ansel Adams, of the Center for Creative Pho |
| 15413 | Beaglehole | J.C. Beaglehole (1901-1971) was a New Zealand historian and authority on the European exploration o |
| 15427 | Shabas | Natalia Leonydivna Shabas (1969-2003), of the Kyiv Shevchenko National University, was an Ukrainian |
| 15434 | Mittal | Alexander Chow Mittal (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scie |
| 15448 | Siegwarth | James David Siegwarth (b. 1934), a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology i |
| 15465 | Buchroeder | Richard A. Buchroeder (b. 1941) is an expert designer of decentered and other innovative optical sys |
| 15466 | Barlow | Nadine G. Barlow (b. 1958), a planetary geoscientist at Northern Arizona University, studies planeta |
| 15468 | Mondriaan | Pieter C. Mondriaan (1872-1944) was a Dutch Neo-plasticist painter. He developed Neo-plasticism pai |
| 15492 | Nyberg | Michael Herbert Nyberg (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a sci |
| 15499 | Cloyd | Marshall P. Cloyd (b. 1939), a businessman and philanthropist, has provided assistance to organizati |
| 15506 | Preygel | Anatoly Preygel (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science co |
| 15512 | Snyder | Doug Snyder's untiring work has reduced or prevented much light pollution in southern Arizona, and h |
| 15513 | Emmermann | Axel Emmermann (b. 1953) was the only person to alert U.S. authorities of an international e-mail sa |
| 15522 | Trueblood | Mark Trueblood (b. 1948) managed the Hubble Space Telescope control center at Ford Aerospace Corpora |
| 15530 | Kuber | Named in honor of Catharine M. Kuber for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 15551 | Paddock | George (b. 1918) and Courtney (b. 1914) Paddock have retained a decades-long, educated interest in a |
| 15563 | Remsberg | Named in honor of Jarrett R. Remsberg for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scie |
| 15569 | Feinberg | Named in honor of Rebecca M. Feinberg for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scie |
| 15576 | Munday | Named in honor of Emily S. Munday for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientis |
| 15583 | Hanick | Named in honor of Andrea L. Hanick for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scienti |
| 15594 | Castillo | Named in honor of Jesse L. Castillo for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scient |
| 15604 | Fruits | Named in honor of Benjamin R. Fruits for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 15606 | Winer | Irvin M. Winer (1935-1982) was a physicist, teacher and mentor who studied laser physics and experim |
| 15608 | Owens | Named in honor of Alexander C. Owens for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 15614 | Pillinger | Colin T. Pillinger (b. 1943), a planetary geochemist, made significant discoveries in the light-elem |
| 15617 | Fallowfield | Named in honor of Heather L. Fallowfield for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young S |
| 15620 | Beltrami | Eugenio Beltrami (1835-1900) was an Italian mathematician who held professorships at Pisa, Pavia and |
| 15622 | Westrich | Named in honor of Bradford J. Westrich for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Sci |
| 15624 | Lamberton | Named in honor of Melissa L. Lamberton for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Sci |
| 15628 | Gonzales | Named in honor of Eric A. Gonzales for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scienti |
| 15629 | Sriner | Named in honor of Kimberly A. Sriner for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 15630 | Disanti | Michael A. DiSanti (b. 1954) has advanced the understanding of molecular processing and chemistry in |
| 15631 | Dellorusso | Neil Dello Russo (b. 1966) has advanced the understanding of molecular processing and chemistry in c |
| 15699 | Lyytinen | Esko Lyytinen (b. 1942) is a Finnish amateur astronomer who has made measurements of, and published |
| 15703 | Yrjölä | Ilkka Yrjölä (b. 1959), a long-term dedicated amateur astronomer in Kuusankoski, Finland, who has ob |
| 15705 | Hautot | Antoine Hautot (1909-1998) was the discoverer's physics professor at the University of Liège. He di |
| 15752 | Eluard | French poet Paul Eluard (Eugène Grindel, 1895-1952) played an important role in the surrealistic mov |
| 15818 | DeVeny | James B. (“Jim”) DeVeny (1943-2004), born in Alliance, Ohio, joined the staff of Kitt Peak National |
| 15834 | McBride | Neil McBride (b. 1966) has worked on many aspects of solar system dynamics, including meteor stream |
| 15838 | Auclair | Joseph Armand Gaston Raymond Auclair (b. 1952) is an amateur astronomer active in the Royal Astronom |
| 15896 | Birkhoff | George David Birkhoff (1884-1944) was one of the foremost American mathematicians of the early twent |
| 15899 | Silvain | Jacques Silvain (1926-1987) was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer who devoted much time to visual a |
| 15904 | Halstead | Susan Ruth Halstead (b. 1959) is the sister of the discoverer. |
| 15905 | Berthier | Jérôme Berthier (b. 1968) works on minor planets at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris. His |
| 15908 | Bertoni | Mosè Giacomo Bertoni (1857-1929) was a Swiss-Paraguayan botanist, anthropologist and writer. He dis |
| 15939 | Fessenden | Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) invented amplitude modulation as a means of transmitting sound |
| 15947 | Milligan | Spike Milligan (b. 1918) is best known for his off-the-planet sense of humor in the groundbreaking B |
| 15950 | Dallago | Vicenza amateur astronomer Giovanni Dal Lago (b. 1964) writes a column for an Italian magazine on te |
| 15963 | Koeberl | Christian Koeberl (b. 1959) is a professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of V |
| 15971 | Hestroffer | Daniel Hestroffer (b. 1965) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris on the determination |
| 15986 | Fienga | Agnes Fienga (b. 1973) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris on the global adjustment |
| 15988 | Parini | Eduardo Parini (b. 1926) is a Paraguayan amateur astronomer who founded the Bueanaventura Suarez Obs |
| 16002 | Bertin | Emmanuel Bertin (b. 1973) is the author of the well-known sextractor package, which is used in sever |
| 16013 | Schmidgall | Emma Rose Schmidgall (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scien |
| 16014 | Sinha | Naveen Neil Sinha (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science |
| 16015 | Snell | Sabrina Curie Snell (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scienc |
| 16017 | Street | Ethan James Street (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science |
| 16020 | Tevelde | Vera Louise te Velde (b. 1986) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scien |
| 16036 | Moroz | Astronomer and space scientist Vasily Ivanovich Moroz (1931-2004), professor at Moscow State Univers |
| 16037 | Sheehan | Astronomy historian and psychiatrist William Patrick Sheehan (b. 1954) is a prolific author and the |
| 16039 | Zeglin | Scott Bailey Zeglin (b. 1984) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a scienc |
| 16051 | Bernero | Bruce Bernero mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16053 | Brennan | James Brennan mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16062 | Buncher | David Buncher mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16065 | Borel | Émile Borel (1871-1956) was a prolific French mathematician who for a time was also minister of the |
| 16068 | Citron | Jerry Citron mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16073 | Gaskin | Regina Gaskin mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16079 | Imada | Keith Imada mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for h |
| 16085 | Laffan | John Laffan mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for h |
| 16089 | Lamb | William Lamb mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16091 | Malchiodi | Beth Malchiodi mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition fo |
| 16101 | Notskas | Chrysi Notskas mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition fo |
| 16107 | Chanmugam | Ganesar Chanmugam (1939-1996) was a superb teacher and cherished colleague of the physics and astron |
| 16110 | Paganetti | Mariarosa Paganetti (b. 1925) is the mother of the discoverer. |
| 16112 | Vitaris | Named in honor of Bethany A. Vitaris for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scien |
| 16114 | Alyono | Named in honor of Jennifer Christy Alyono for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Ta |
| 16119 | Bronner | Named in honor of Mordechai Joseph Bronner for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science T |
| 16120 | Burnim | Named in honor of Jacob Samuels Burnim for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talen |
| 16121 | Burrell | Named in honor of Marc Anthony Burrell for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talen |
| 16130 | Giovine | Named in honor of Allegra Elizabeth Giovine for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science |
| 16135 | Ivarsson | Karl R. Ivarsson (b. 1939) was a vertical transportation specialist in Los Angeles for 37 years. He |
| 16142 | Leung | Named in honor of Albert W. Leung for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Sea |
| 16150 | Clinch | Nicholas Bayard Clinch (b. 1930), of Palo Alto, California, is a celebrated alpinist, expedition lea |
| 16165 | Licht | Named in honor of Jacob Licht for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 16167 | Oertli | Named in honor of Nicole Anne Oertli for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent |
| 16168 | Palmen | Named in honor of Brandon Michael Palmen for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Tal |
| 16177 | Pelzer | Named in honor of Justin Raymond Pelzer for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Tale |
| 16180 | Rapoport | Named in honor of Ezra Jacob Rapoport for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent |
| 16189 | Riehl | Named in honor of Emily Elizabeth Riehl for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Tale |
| 16192 | Laird | Canadian physicist Elizabeth Rebecca Laird (1874-1969) was known for her research on soft x-rays, th |
| 16194 | Roderick | Gavin Roderick (1977-2001) was an exceptionally bright and enthusiastic student of astrophysics at C |
| 16198 | Búzios | The city of Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, is host to the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2005 meeti |
| 16199 | Rozenblyum | Named in honor of Nikita Rozenblyum for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent S |
| 16207 | Montgomery | Michael Montgomery (1925-2011) was a well-known jazz and ragtime piano player in the Detroit area of |
| 16209 | Sterner | Named in honor of Beckett William Sterner for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Ta |
| 16212 | Theberge | Named in honor of Ashleigh Brooks Theberge for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science T |
| 16219 | Venturelli | Named in honor of Ophelia Shalini Venturelli for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science |
| 16226 | Beaton | Named in honor of John Beaton for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a sc |
| 16230 | Benson | Named in honor of Carol Benson for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a s |
| 16234 | Bosse | Named in honor of Angelique Bosse for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 16238 | Chappe | Named in honor of Sean Chappe for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a sc |
| 16239 | Dower | Named in honor of Richard Dower for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 16241 | Dvorsky | Named in honor of Mary Ann Dvorsky for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 16243 | Rosenbauer | Helmut Rosenbauer (b. 1936) was director of the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Katlenburg-Lind |
| 16246 | Cantor | Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a German mathematician and professor at Halle. In a series of papers b |
| 16247 | Esner | Named in honor of William Esner for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 16248 | Fox | Named in honor of Mitchell Fox for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a s |
| 16249 | Cauchy | Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) was a French mathematician who made fundamental contributions to t |
| 16250 | Delbó | Marco Delbó (b. 1972) has contributed significantly to knowledge of the physical properties of near- |
| 16253 | Griffis | Named in honor of Wanda Griffis for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 16254 | Harper | Named in honor of Dan Harper for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a sci |
| 16255 | Hampton | Donald L. Hampton (b. 1963), an atmospheric physicist at Ball Aerospace and Technology, has served a |
| 16259 | Housinger | Named in honor of Sharon Housinger for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 16265 | Lemay | Named in honor of Ron LeMay for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a scie |
| 16267 | Mcdermott | Named in honor of Frank McDermott for mentoring two finalists in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Searc |
| 16268 | Mcneeley | Named in honor of Pam McNeeley for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a s |
| 16269 | Merkord | Named in honor of Pat Merkord for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a sc |
| 16273 | Oneill | Named in honor of Barbara O'Neill for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 16274 | Pavlica | Named in honor of Robert Pavlica for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 16277 | Mallada | Uruguayan astronomer Esmeralda H. Mallada (b. 1937) is a professor at the Universidad de la Repúblic |
| 16280 | Groussin | Olivier Groussin (b. 1976), a planetary scientist at the University of Maryland, played a major role |
| 16424 | Davaine | Casimir Davaine (1812-1882) was a French physician working in the field of microbiology. In 1850 he |
| 16435 | Fándly | Juraj Fándly (1750-1811) was an Enlightenment writer, author of the first book in Bernolák's languag |
| 16438 | Knöfel | German meteorologist André Knöfel (b. 1963) is the head of the Fireball Data Center of the Internati |
| 16441 | Kirchner | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), painter, graphic artist and sculptor, was a master of German expr |
| 16445 | Klimt | Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art |
| 16447 | Vauban | Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban (1633-1707) was a French marshal and strategist of genius, |
| 16452 | Goldfinger | Pauline J. “PJ” Goldfinger (b. 1964) helped to organize the Palomar Observatory's 1.2-m Schmidt Osch |
| 16479 | Paulze | Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (1758-1836) was the wife and scientific collaborator of the chemist Anto |
| 16513 | Vasks | Latvian composer and contra-bassist Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) studied composition at the Latvian State |
| 16524 | Hausmann | Manfred Hausmann (1898-1986), who was born in Kassel and died in Bremen, lived for many years in Wor |
| 16561 | Rawls | John Borden Rawls (1921-2002) was an influential philosopher who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton Unive |
| 16564 | Coriolis | Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792-1843) was a French mathematician and physicist who showed that the |
| 16583 | Oersted | Hans Oersted (1777-1851), a Danish physicist and chemist, discovered that electric currents produce |
| 16589 | Hastrup | Involved with the Surveyor and Viking programs, Rolf Hastrup (b. 1930) continues his long career at |
| 16599 | Shorland | John Herschel Shorland, a direct descendant of John Herschel, has recently completed his own Hersche |
| 16623 | Muenzel | Gisela Muenzel (b. 1929) was the life partner of Hilmar W. Duerbeck (1948-2012). Over the last 20 y |
| 16641 | Esteban | Manuel (b. 1940) and Gloria (b. 1940) Esteban have been an admired and popular couple at the Califor |
| 16646 | Sparrman | Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748-1820) studied medicine and botany and became one of the most outstandi |
| 16672 | Bedini | Daniele Bedini (b. 1952) wrote a thesis on space architecture, the first of its kind in Europe. He |
| 16674 | Birkeland | Kristian Olaf Birkeland (1867-1917) was a Norwegian scientist who elucidated the nature of the auror |
| 16676 | Tinne | Dutch explorer and photographer Alexandrine P. F. Tinne (1835-1869) travelled through the Central Ni |
| 16690 | Fabritius | Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils. His earl |
| 16693 | Moseley | Terence J. C. A. Moseley (b. 1946), editor of Stardust, 1992 Aidan P. Fitzgerald Medallist an |
| 16696 | Villamayor | Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (b. 1970) is a well-known popularizer of astronomy in Paraguay and the |
| 16702 | Buxner | Sanlyn R. Buxner (b. 1978) is known for her work in space science education and public outreach, inc |
| 16705 | Reinhardt | Austrian stage director and theater manager Max Reinhardt (Max Goldmann, 1873-1943) worked mainly in |
| 16707 | Norman | Lennie Norman (b. 1948) and his father Charlie Norman (1920-2005) were both entertaining musicians. |
| 16755 | Cayley | Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) started out as a practicing lawyer but in 1863 became a professor of mathe |
| 16765 | Agnesi | Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) was the first woman in the western world who can properly be called |
| 16779 | Mittelman | Amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, David Ross Mittelman (1954-2017) was a patron of astronomy |
| 16797 | Wilkerson | Winston S. Wilkerson, uncle of the first discoverer's wife, is a member of the physics faculty at Th |
| 16804 | Bonini | Daughter of Robert and Henriette Chemin, observers at the Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur Schmidt tel |
| 16856 | Banach | Stefan Banach (1892-1945) was a Polish mathematician and professor at the University of Lvov. His m |
| 16857 | Goodall | Kirk Goodall (b. 1964) was the Mars Pathfinder Web Engineer, and was instrumental in setting up the |
| 16887 | Blouke | Morley Blouke (b. 1941) is a well-known microelectronician, whose pioneering development of thinned |
| 16892 | Vaissière | Franck Vaissière (b. 1958) has been responsible for the technical activity to the T60 association at |
| 16944 | Wangler | Julie Wangler mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16946 | Farnham | Tony L. Farnham (b. 1964), an astronomer at the University of Maryland, has studied the dynamics of |
| 16947 | Wikrent | Brian Wikrent mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 16958 | Klaasen | Kenneth P. Klaasen (b. 1946), a geomorphologist and expert in scientific operations of spacecraft at |
| 16972 | Neish | Catherine D. Neish (b. 1981) is a professor at the University of Western Ontario who studies Titan, |
| 16973 | Gaspari | Luciano Gaspari (b. 1986) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 16975 | Delamere | W. Alan Delamere (b. 1935), recently retired from Ball Aerospace and Technology, has made major cont |
| 16984 | Veillet | Christian Veillet (b. 1954) was for several years head of the lunar-ranging station at the Observato |
| 16996 | Dahir | Roberto Daniel Dahir (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 16997 | Garrone | Nestor Juan Garrone (b. 1984) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 17002 | Kouzel | Ivan U. Kouzel (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 17022 | Huisjen | Martin A. Huisjen (b. 1944) was the manager at Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation for the dev |
| 17023 | Abbott | Bud Abbott (1897-1974) was the gravely-voiced straight man of the Abbott and Costello comedy duo. T |
| 17024 | Costello | Louis Costello (1906-1959) was the funny man of the Abbott and Costello comedy duo. Their relations |
| 17029 | Cuillandre | Jean Charles Cuillandre (b. 1968) is a French astronomer whose interest in CCDs has always been very |
| 17030 | Sierks | German physicist Holger Sierks (b. 1960) has worked on instrumentation for missions such as SOHO, Ul |
| 17038 | Wake | Born in New Zealand, Australian journalist Nancy Wake (b. 1912) joined the French Resistance during |
| 17040 | Almeida | Liliane de Almeida (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17041 | Castagna | Pedro Turibeo Castagna (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 17042 | Madiraju | Anila Madiraju (b. 1985) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 17045 | Markert | Thomas H. Markert (1948-1996) made some of the first x-ray observations of binary star systems, supe |
| 17046 | Kenway | Gaetan Kristian Kenway (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 17049 | Miron | Rachelle Elizabeth Miron (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 17050 | Weiskopf | Lydia Suzanne Weiskopf (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 17051 | Oflynn | Colin Patrick O'Flynn (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17061 | Tegler | Stephen C. Tegler (b. 1962), of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, is a planetary astronomer wh |
| 17062 | Bardot | Brigitte Bardot (b. 1934) is a French movie star and a leading spokesperson for animal rights. |
| 17063 | Papaloizou | John C. B. Papaloizou (b. 1947), of Queen Mary College, University of London, has worked on the theo |
| 17075 | Pankonin | Vernon Pankonin (b. 1946), program director for planetary astronomy at the National Science Foundati |
| 17076 | Betti | Enrico Betti (1823-1892) taught at the University of Pisa and published on various topics in algebra |
| 17078 | Sellers | Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was an English character actor whose extraordinary abilities of mimicry an |
| 17089 | Mercado | Jose Mercado (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineer |
| 17090 | Mundaca | Sebastian Mundaca (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 17104 | McCloskey | Mairead Mary McCloskey (b. 1985) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2003 Intel Inte |
| 17166 | Secombe | Welshman Harry Secombe (1921-2001) was the chuckling roly-poly singer-actor-comedian “Neddy Seagoon” |
| 17179 | Codina | Sayd Jose Codina Landaberry (b. 1926) directed the Observatorio Nacional in Rio de Janeiro from 1991 |
| 17185 | Mcdavid | David McDavid (b. 1950), an astronomer specializing in the photometry and polarimetry of Be stars, w |
| 17192 | Loharu | Evgeniy E. Loharu (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 17198 | Gorjup | Niko Gorjup (b. 1984) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineeri |
| 17215 | Slivan | Stephen M. Slivan (b. 1962) demonstrated a preferential spin-vector alignment among Koronis family m |
| 17219 | Gianninoto | Joe Gianninoto (b. 1947) is an avid amateur astronomer originally from New York, now living in Tucso |
| 17241 | Wooden | Diane H. Wooden (b. 1958), of NASA Ames Research Center, has helped pioneer the use of thermal infra |
| 17247 | Vanverst | Named in honor of Mary VanVerst for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 17251 | Vondracek | Named in honor of Mark Vondracek for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 17253 | VonSecker | Named in honor of Claire VonSecker for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, |
| 17257 | Strazzulla | Giovanni (“Gianni”) Strazzulla (b. 1951) is senior astronomer at the Experimental Astrophysics Labor |
| 17258 | Whalen | Named in honor of Patrice Whalen for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a |
| 17273 | Karnik | Ryna Karnik (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 17278 | Viggh | Herbert E. M. Viggh (b. 1963), of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, wa |
| 17280 | Shelly | Frank C. Shelly (b. 1960) has been a developer of software for moving objects and was worked as the |
| 17285 | Bezout | Étienne Bezout (1739-1783) was a French algebraist of great manipulative skills. He studied the pro |
| 17408 | McAdams | Jim V. McAdams (b. 1961) optimizes spacecraft trajectories at the Applied Physics Laboratory of John |
| 17412 | Kroll | Reinhold Kroll, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, is known for his research on magnetic, |
| 17427 | Poe | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, is known for his |
| 17438 | Quasimodo | Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), an Italian novelist and poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in |
| 17447 | Heindl | Clifford J. Heindl (b. 1926) has guided the Earth and Space Sciences Division of the Jet Propulsion |
| 17506 | Walschap | Gerard Walschap (1898-1989) was a Flemish writer and poet, who became widely known for his novel |
| 17521 | Kiek | Israël David Kiek (1811-1899) was a famous photographer in Leiden. The Dutch phrase een kiekje ma |
| 17637 | Blaschke | Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (1885-1962) was instrumental in establishing the University of Hamburg |
| 17653 | Bochner | Salomon Bochner (1899-1982) was a Polish-American mathematician who spent most of his working life a |
| 17670 | Liddell | Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934) was the young girl, then aged 10, for whom Lewis Carroll wrote < |
| 17696 | Bombelli | Rafael Bombelli (1526-1572) was a mathematician of Bologna. His widely read treatise on algebra int |
| 17703 | Bombieri | Enrico M. Bombieri (b. 1940) is an Italian mathematician who has also been a professor at the Instit |
| 17734 | Boole | George Boole (1815-1864) was a self-taught Englishman. His works The Mathematical Analysis of Lo |
| 17764 | Schatzman | Evry Schatzman (b. 1920) assumed a leading role in the development of theoretical Astrophysics in Fr |
| 17770 | Baumé | Antoine Baumé (1728-1804) was a chemist at the Ecole de Pharmacie in Paris. Famous for his inventio |
| 17771 | Elsheimer | Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) was a German painter who influenced many other artists, including Rembran |
| 17781 | Kepping | Ashley Deane Kepping (b. 1985) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 17803 | Barish | Robert David Barish (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 17815 | Kulawik | Christopher Eric Kulawik (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 17821 | Bölsche | Wilhelm Bölsche (1861-1939) was a naturalist, poet and writer. With his book Das Liebesleben in |
| 17823 | Bartels | Mel Bartels (b. 1954) has contributed much to amateur astronomy, especially his public domain softwa |
| 17831 | Ussery | Robert Francis Ussery (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17832 | Pitman | Ellen Marie Pitman (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17836 | Canup | Robin M. Canup (b. 1968), of Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, has greatly advanced o |
| 17844 | Judson | Michael Ivan Judson (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17851 | Kaler | James B. Kaler (b. 1938), a professor at the University of Illinois from 1976 to 2003 known for his |
| 17855 | Geffert | The German amateur astronomer Martin Geffert (b. 1922) has been very dedicated to the Starkenburg Ob |
| 17856 | Gomes | Rodney Gomes da Silva (b. 1954) has produced a series of seminal works on the dynamics of minor plan |
| 17857 | Hsieh | Henry H. Hsieh (b. 1978) has studied the nature of the comet-like Themis-family minor planet (7968) |
| 17858 | Beaugé | Cristian Beaugé (b. 1963), of the Observatorio Astronómico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, has sho |
| 17860 | Roig | Fernando Roig (b. 1968), of the Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, is known for his results on t |
| 17869 | Descamps | Pascal Descamps (b. 1961) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris on the modeling the Ga |
| 17879 | Robutel | Philippe Robutel (b. 1964) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris on the stability of t |
| 17881 | Radmall | Nelson Bret Radmall (b. 1984) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17882 | Thielemann | John Seth Thielemann (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 17889 | Liechty | Anthony David Liechty (b. 1984) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17893 | Arlot | Jean-Eudes Arlot (b. 1948) is the current director of the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris and |
| 17897 | Gallardo | Tabaré Gallardo (b. 1962) is a dynamicist at the astronomy department of the University of the Repub |
| 17900 | Leiferman | Adam James Leiferman (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 17905 | Kabtamu | Mahlet Kabtamu (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 17910 | Munyan | Benjamin Kendrick Munyan (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 17917 | Cartan | Élie Cartan (1869-1951), the son of a blacksmith, became a very influential French mathematician. H |
| 17919 | Licandro | Javier Licandro (b. 1966), a Uruguayan astronomer at the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, works o |
| 17928 | Neuwirth | Melissa Marie Neuwirth (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 17934 | Deleon | Christopher Lee DeLeon (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 17941 | Horbatt | A skilled mechanical craftsman, Paul Allen Horbatt (b. 1946) has contributed greatly to the developm |
| 17945 | Hawass | Egyptian archeologist Zahi A. Hawass (b. 1947) showed unfailing dedication in the battle of preservi |
| 17950 | Grover | Vaishali Kiran Grover (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17951 | Fenska | Kristen Elaine Fenska (b. 1988) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17952 | Folsom | Jean Marie Folsom (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 17954 | Hopkins | Brandon James Hopkins (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17958 | Schoof | Jenna Marie Schoof (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17960 | Liberatore | Katie Lynn Liberatore (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17965 | Brodersen | Carl Harold Brodersen (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 17969 | Truong | Gold Silver Truong (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 17970 | Palepu | Sita Chandrika Palepu (b. 1985) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2003 Intel Inter |
| 17972 | Ascione | Andrew Gerard Ascione (b. 1985) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2003 Intel Inter |
| 17976 | Schulman | Aaron David Schulman (b. 1985) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2003 Intel Intern |
| 17980 | Vanschaik | Katherine Douglas Van Schaik (b. 1986) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2003 Inte |
| 17983 | Buhrmester | Michael Duane Buhrmester (b. 1984) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 17993 | Kluesing | Daniel Lennard Kluesing (b. 1985) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 18004 | Krystosek | Rebecca Jennifer Krystosek (b. 1984) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 18012 | Marsland | Kyle Anthony Marsland (b. 1985) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18016 | Grondahl | Brian Jacob Grondahl (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18019 | Dascoli | Jennifer Anne D'Ascoli (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science co |
| 18020 | Amend | Gregory Amend (b. 1986) was awarded first place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineer |
| 18021 | Waldman | Sarah Elyse Waldman (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18024 | Dobson | John Dobson (b. 1915) is one of the most important popularizers of astronomy of the twentieth centur |
| 18027 | Gokcay | Chelsea Bahar Gokcay (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18032 | Geiss | Johannes Geiss (b. 1926) is a leading Swiss space scientist. He was PI on the Solar Wind Compositio |
| 18059 | Cavalieri | Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647) was a friar and a professor at the University of Bologna. He deve |
| 18092 | Reinhold | Kimberly Elise Reinhold (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 18099 | Flamini | Enrico Flamini (b. 1951), of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), is co-investigator of the Huygens Atmos |
| 18100 | Lebreton | Jean-Pierre Lebreton (b. 1949), of the ESA/ESTEC Space Science Department, is project scientist for |
| 18101 | Coustenis | Athena Coustenis (b. 1961), of the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysi |
| 18102 | Angrilli | Francesco Angrilli (b. 1937), of the University of Padua, is a pioneer in research on tethered satel |
| 18111 | Pinet | Patrick Pinet (b. 1957), of the Observatoire de Midi-Pyrenées, Toulouse, is an expert on the physica |
| 18113 | Bibring | Jean-Pierre Bibring (b. 1948), of the Université de Paris Sud--Paris 11, has helped develop the Fren |
| 18114 | Rosenbush | Vera K. Rosenbush (b. 1948) is a senior scientist at the main astronomical observatory of the Nation |
| 18115 | Rathbun | Donald Rathbun (b. 1923) is a distinguished neurologist. Founder of the Epilepsy Association of El |
| 18119 | Braude | Semen Ya. Braude (1911-2003) was a founder of decametric radioastronomy in the former U.S.S.R. and c |
| 18123 | Pavan | Luciano Pavan (b. 1956), an Italian musician, writer, painter and amateur astronomer, is well known |
| 18128 | Wysner | Laura C. Wysner (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 18148 | Bellier | Guy and Caroline Bellier are renowned French orthopedic surgeons. The naming also honors their sons |
| 18149 | Colombatti | Giacomo Colombatti (b. 1972), of the University of Padova, participated in the final phases of the C |
| 18151 | Licchelli | Domenico Licchelli (b. 1969), of the University of Lecce, studies minor-planet photometry and extras |
| 18162 | Denlea | Jeremy Micah Denlea (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18167 | Buttani | Buttani Philippe (b. 1966), a friend of one of the discoverers, started the “CCD adventure” with him |
| 18182 | Wiener | Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) contributed to many areas of mathematics, including cybernetics, stochast |
| 18196 | Rowberry | Megan Rowberry (b. 1984) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 18239 | Ekers | Ronald Ekers, current president of the IAU and ex-director of the Australian Telescope National Faci |
| 18240 | Mould | Jeremy Mould (b. 1949), who has been director of Mount Stromlo Observatory and of the U.S. National |
| 18241 | Genzel | Reinhard Genzel (b. 1952), director of the Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik and pro |
| 18242 | Peebles | Princeton theoretical cosmologist Jim Peebles (b. 1935) plays a central role in the understanding of |
| 18243 | Gunn | James Edward Gunn (b. 1938), professor at Princeton University, is well known for his contributions |
| 18302 | Körner | Harald Körner (1881-1953) was headmaster of the private elementary school in Lund from 1916 to 1944 |
| 18376 | Quirk | Steven (Steve) Quirk (b. 1958) is an accomplished astrophotographer whose photographs have appeared |
| 18381 | Massenet | Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was a prolific French composer of operas. His greatest successes were |
| 18430 | Balzac | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), the creator of the French realistic novel, was a keen observer of Fren |
| 18498 | Cesaro | Ernesto Cesaro (1859-1906) was a prolific mathematician and professor at the universities of Palermo |
| 18499 | Showalter | Mark R. Showalter (b. 1957), planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, is (co-)discover of the Jovi |
| 18510 | Chasles | Michel Chasles (1793-1880) was professor at the École Polytechnique and later at the Sorbonne. His |
| 18555 | Courant | Richard Courant (1888-1972) studied and later taught at Göttingen. In 1934 he became a professor at |
| 18560 | Coxeter | Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (b. 1907) is an English-Canadian mathematician and former professor a |
| 18565 | Selg | Timothy Selg mentored a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 18568 | Thuillot | William Thuillot (b. 1951) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste on the theory of the motions o |
| 18572 | Rocher | Patrick Rocher (b. 1951) works at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris. His main task has bee |
| 18581 | Batllo | Valerie Batllo (b. 1967) works on cometary orbits at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris. Sh |
| 18611 | Baudelaire | French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was one of the major innovators of French literature. Hi |
| 18617 | Puntel | Nathalie Puntel (b. 1968) is a young, pretty and cheerful French woman who prefers deep-sky pictures |
| 18632 | Danielsson | Ann-Kristin “Kikki” Danielsson (b. 1952) is a well-known and popular country singer from Sweden. |
| 18638 | Nouet | Nicolas Nouet, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, traveled to St. Domingue to map the isla |
| 18649 | Fabrega | Joaquin Fabrega (b. 1967) is an amateur astronomer from Panama. He is a long-time member, past pres |
| 18656 | Mergler | Natalie Rose Mergler (b. 1984) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18661 | Zoccoli | Christina Marie Mariolana Zoccoli (b. 1987) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International |
| 18668 | Gottesman | David Alexander Gottesman (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 18675 | Amiamini | Ami Rebecca Amini (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 18680 | Weirather | Sara Jo Weirather (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 18689 | Rodrick | Richard Jean Rodrick (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18699 | Quigley | Carolyn Ann Quigley (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 18727 | Peacock | Anthony Peacock (b. 1950) was project scientist for the ESA Exosat and XMM-Newton missions. A leadi |
| 18728 | Grammier | Richard (“Rick”) S. Grammier (1955-2011) was director of solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Prop |
| 18734 | Darboux | Jean-Gaston Darboux (1842-1917) was a French mathematician and professor at the Sorbonne, whose main |
| 18735 | Chubko | Larysa Sergiivna Chubko (b. 1980), an astronomer in the Department of Small Solar System Bodies at t |
| 18747 | Lexcen | Ben Lexcen (1936-1988) was the amiable Australian marine architect who designed Australia II, the ya |
| 18755 | Meduna | Matthew Paul Meduna (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 18766 | Broderick | Tamara Ann Broderick (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18773 | Bredehoft | Belle Dean Bredehoft (b. 1984) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18774 | Lavanture | Douglas George Lavanture (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 18776 | Coulter | Michael Edward Coulter (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18777 | Hobson | Christina Nicole Hobson (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 18780 | Kuncham | Vivek Kuncham (b. 1987) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineer |
| 18787 | Kathermann | Katherine Laura Hermann (b. 1987) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 18789 | Metzger | Vincent Tyler Metzger (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18796 | Acosta | Iyen Abdon Acosta (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 18824 | Graves | Daniel David Graves (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 18826 | Leifer | Andrew Michael Leifer (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18830 | Pothier | David Guillaume Pothier (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 18838 | Shannon | American scientist Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) became the father of information science and a |
| 18839 | Whiteley | Abstract artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) was Australia's leading painter of his generation and win |
| 18845 | Cichocki | Bruno Cichocki (1908-2001) was a civil engineer with a vivid interest in astronomy. |
| 18862 | Warot | Gregory Andrew Warot (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18871 | Grauer | Albert D. Grauer (b. 1942), is an American astronomer who has obtained time-series and infrared imag |
| 18872 | Tammann | Swiss cosmologist Gustav Tammann (b. 1932), a professor of astronomy at the University of Basle, is |
| 18891 | Kamler | Jonathan Jacques Kamler (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science an |
| 18930 | Athreya | Khannan Kameshvaran Athreya (b. 1987) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Scienc |
| 18946 | Massar | Sonny Raye Massar (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 18948 | Hinkle | Athena Leah Hinkle (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 18949 | Tumaneng | Karen Andres Tumaneng (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18964 | Fairhurst | Maggie Sara Fairhurst (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18965 | Lazenby | Tanya Marie Lazenby (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 18973 | Crouch | Kegan Kade Crouch (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 18974 | Brungardt | Adam Robert Brungardt (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 18997 | Mizrahi | Jonathan Albert Mizrahi (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 19005 | Teckman | Megan Elizabeth Teckman (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 19022 | Penzel | Edgar Penzel (b. 1921) founded the school observatory in Rodewisch Saxony, and directed it from 1950 |
| 19023 | Varela | Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Sc |
| 19029 | Briede | Paul Briede (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineeri |
| 19079 | Hernández | José Hernández (1834-1886) was the Argentinian author of El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872), L |
| 19130 | Tytgat | Belgian expressionist painter Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957) joined the Brabant fauvists that gathered ar |
| 19132 | Le Clézio | French-Mauritian novelist of more than 30 novels, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b. 1940) is particul |
| 19136 | Strassmann | Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (1902-1980), a collaborator at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin an |
| 19149 | Boccaccio | Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian poet and essayist, known for the psychological romance |
| 19155 | Lifeson | Alex Lifeson (Alexander Zivojinovich, b. 1953) is the guitarist for the Canadian band Rush. Cofound |
| 19224 | Orosei | Roberto Orosei (b. 1968) has worked on theoretical and numerical tools for microwave experiments in |
| 19226 | Peiresc | Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was a French humanist and philosopher with a great inter |
| 19243 | Bunting | Born in Scotland, John Bunting has had experience in geologic field mapping and mineral exploration |
| 19290 | Schroeder | Jeff Schroeder (b. 1954) has contributed to the mechanical design and fabrication of all the NEAT ca |
| 19293 | Dedekind | Richard Dedekind (1831-1916), a German mathematician and also an accomplished pianist and cellist, i |
| 19294 | Weymouth | John Weymouth (b. 1922), professor emeritus of physics at the University of Nebraska, received the 1 |
| 19349 | Denjoy | Arnaud Denjoy (1884-1974) was one of a group of French mathematicians (including Baire, Borel and Le |
| 19379 | Labrecque | Steve LaBrecque (b. 1964) was responsible for the successful installation and operations of the NEAT |
| 19395 | Barrera | Luis Barrera (b. 1965) is head of the Institute for Astronomy of the Universidad Catholica del Norte |
| 19397 | Lagarini | Andrea Lagarini (b. 1963) is an assistant in the science department of the European Southern Observa |
| 19410 | Guisard | Stéphane Guisard (b. 1970) is an optician at the European Southern Observatory in Cerro Paranal, whe |
| 19419 | Pinkham | Brian Edward Pinkham (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19423 | Hefter | Jonathan S. Hefter (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 19426 | Leal | Eddy Leal (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering |
| 19429 | Grubaugh | Daniel Boyd Grubaugh (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19433 | Naftz | Douglas Calvin Naftz (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19444 | Addicott | Charles Michael Addicott (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 19446 | Muroski | Megan Elizabeth Muroski (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 19450 | Sussman | Gene Everett Sussman (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19452 | Keeney | Chelsea Ray Keeney (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 19458 | Legault | Thierry Legault (b. 1962) is an amateur astronomer who produces amazing high-resolution astronomical |
| 19461 | Feingold | Samantha Megan Feingold (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science a |
| 19475 | Mispagel | Heather Michelle Mispagel (b. 1984) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science |
| 19497 | Pineda | Maria Luisa Pineda (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and En |
| 19518 | Moulding | Erin Louise Moulding (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19531 | Charton | Heather Anne Charton (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and |
| 19533 | Garrison | Carly Beth Garrison (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and E |
| 19543 | Burgoyne | Nicole Burgoyne (b. 1986) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 19547 | Collier | Theresa Collier (b. 1986) received the 2003 Intel Foundation Achievement Award for her zoology proje |
| 19573 | Cummings | Ian Douglas Cummings (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 19575 | Feeny | Dana Anne Feeny (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a m |
| 19582 | Blow | Graham L. Blow (b. 1954) is a well-known astronomer, writer and award-winning photographer. As dire |
| 19589 | Kirkland | Tyler Hollis Kirkland (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 19598 | Luttrell | Jeffrey Michael Luttrell (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chall |
| 19603 | Monier | Elizabeth Nicole Monier (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challe |
| 19612 | Noordung | At the end of 1928 Herman Potočnik (1892-1929) published under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung a visi |
| 19614 | Montelongo | Michael John Montelongo (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challe |
| 19617 | Duhamel | Jean-Maria-Constant Duhamel (1797-1872) was a French applied mathematician who introduced a method t |
| 19625 | Ovaitt | Elena Kurtz Ovaitt (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, |
| 19629 | Serra | Catalan astrophysicist Guy Serra (1947-2000) was an active pioneer in the field of infrared and subm |
| 19633 | Rusjan | Edvard Rusjan (1886-1911) was a pioneer Slovenian aircraft designer and pilot who performed his firs |
| 19637 | Presbrey | Scott Thomas Presbrey (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 19652 | Saris | Patrick J. G. Saris (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, |
| 19656 | Simpkins | Taylor Simpkins (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a m |
| 19658 | Sloop | Katie Michelle Sloop (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 19662 | Stunzi | Joseph Robert Stunzi (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 19664 | Yancey | Bryan D. Yancey (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a m |
| 19678 | Belczyk | Pamela Belczyk mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle s |
| 19694 | Dunkelman | Lawrence Dunkelman (b. 1917), of the Naval Research Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, |
| 19700 | Teitelbaum | Hugh E. Teitelbaum (1951-2007) received a degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University an |
| 19704 | Medlock | Kevin Medlock (b. 1954) is a Californian award-winning telescope and instrument maker known for larg |
| 19719 | Glasser | William Glasser (b. 1925) is a psychiatrist who developed the concepts of Choice Theory and Reality |
| 19721 | Wray | James D. Wray (b. 1936) directed the Institute of Meteoritics (1966-1967) and was deputy P.I. for NA |
| 19727 | Allen | London-based solar physicist Clabon Walter Allen (1904-1987) authored the first (1955) through third |
| 19738 | Calinger | Manetta Calinger mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle |
| 19741 | Callahan | Diane Callahan mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle s |
| 19763 | Klimesh | Matthew Klimesh (b. 1968) developed the efficient data compressor for archiving the voluminous NEAT |
| 19788 | Hunker | Roxanne Hunker mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle s |
| 19810 | Partridge | Mary Partridge mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle s |
| 19818 | Shotwell | Gary Shotwell mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle sc |
| 19820 | Stowers | Josh Stowers mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle sch |
| 19833 | Wickwar | Steve Wickwar mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle sc |
| 19835 | Zreda | Grazyna Zreda mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle sc |
| 19861 | Auster | Craig Louis Auster (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science compet |
| 19875 | Guedes | Leandro Lage dos Santos Guedes (b. 1976), an astronomer at the Rio de Janeiro planetarium, helped to |
| 19911 | Rigaux | Fernand Rigaux (1905-1962) was a Belgian astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Uccle, who discovered |
| 19992 | Schönbein | German chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799-1868) was a professor in Basle from 1828. Best k |
| 19998 | Binoche | Juliette Binoche (b. 1964) became world famous for her performance in The Unbearable Lightness of |
| 20016 | Rietschel | German sculptor Ernst Rietschel (1804-1861), a pupil of Rauch, created in the classicistic style. H |
| 20037 | Duke | Michael B. Duke (b. 1935) is a scholar of distinction on lunar, Mars and meteorite research, with a |
| 20044 | Vitoux | Frédéric Vitoux (b. 1944), a French writer and journalist known for his novel Bébert, Le chat de |
| 20081 | Occhialini | Giuseppe Occhialini (b. 1907) is a distinguished Italian physicist. He collaborated with P. M. S. Bl |
| 20084 | Buckmaster | Bill Buckmaster (b. 1947) is anchor of the long-running news magazine program Arizona Illustrated |
| 20103 | de Vico | The Jesuit Francesco de Vico (1805-1848), best known as the discoverer of seven comets, including 54 |
| 20106 | Morton | Donald C. Morton (b. 1933), was director of the Anglo-Australian Observatory during 1976-1986 and of |
| 20135 | Juels | Charles W. Juels (b. 1944) of Fountain Hills, Arizona, is a public health physician/psychiatrist and |
| 20136 | Eisenhart | Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (1876-1965) was a prolific American mathematician and professor at Princeto |
| 20174 | Eisenstein | Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (1823-1852) was a brilliant German mathematician who published res |
| 20197 | Enriques | Federigo Enriques (1871-1946), professor at the universities of Bologna and Rome, made major contrib |
| 20230 | Blanchard | Guillaume Blanchard (b. 1969) is a French optician who specializes in astronomical optics. An amate |
| 20242 | Sagot | Robert Sagot (b. 1910) is an amateur astronomer who spent a large part of his time at the Société as |
| 20246 | Frappa | Eric Frappa (b. 1969) is a specialist in the occultation of stars by minor planets. He is responsibl |
| 20268 | Racollier | Rachael Theresa Collier (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science c |
| 20274 | Halperin | Bruce David Halperin (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science comp |
| 20279 | Harel | Matan Harel (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 20282 | Hedberg | Herbert Mason Hedberg (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
| 20285 | Lubin | Amos Benjamin Lubin (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science compe |
| 20286 | Michta | Maria Lynn Michta (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competi |
| 20287 | Munteanu | Andrei Munteanu (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competiti |
| 20288 | Nachbaur | Moriah Katherine Nachbaur (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science |
| 20304 | Wolfson | Jayne Frances Wolfson (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
| 20309 | Batalden | John Batalden mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 20312 | Danahy | Thomas Danahy mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 20313 | Fredrikson | Robert Fredrikson mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition |
| 20329 | Manfro | Nina Manfro mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for h |
| 20330 | Manwell | Anne Manwell mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 20337 | Naeve | Larry Naeve mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for h |
| 20342 | Trinh | Jonathan Trinh mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition fo |
| 20347 | Wunderlich | Daniel Wunderlich mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition |
| 20358 | Dalem | Henri Dalem (b. 1951) is a specialist in data processing and the webmaster (marquis) of the internat |
| 20360 | Holsapple | Keith A. Holsapple (b. 1938) is a professor of engineering at the University of Washington. An exper |
| 20362 | Trilling | David E. Trilling (b. 1972) is an assistant astronomer at the University of Arizona. Theorist and ob |
| 20371 | Ekladyous | Nicholas Samir Ekladyous (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chall |
| 20373 | Fullmer | Austin Tracey Fullmer (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 20394 | Fatou | Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou (1878-1929) was employed at the observatory of Paris all his working life, |
| 20416 | Mansour | Philip George Mansour (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 20426 | Fridlund | Malcolm Fridlund (b. 1952) worked at ESA on projects such as Darwin and Corot. |
| 20430 | Stout | A music professor at Louisiana State University who was fascinated by the mysteries of space being r |
| 20440 | McClintock | Shannon Noel McClintock (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challe |
| 20451 | Galeotti | Piero Galeotti (b. 1942), professor of physics at the University of Torino, is involved in experimen |
| 20454 | Pedrajo | Ana Cristina Pedrajo (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 20455 | Pennell | Jordan William Pennell (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challen |
| 20465 | Vervack | Ronald J. Vervack, Jr. (b. 1966), of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has advanc |
| 20467 | Hibbitts | Charles A. Hibbitts (b. 1967), of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, studies the c |
| 20474 | Reasoner | Jonathan William Reasoner (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chal |
| 20478 | Rutenberg | Michael Lev Rutenberg- Schoenberg (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scient |
| 20481 | Sharples | David R. Sharples (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (D |
| 20483 | Sinay | Daniella Sinay (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYS |
| 20512 | Rothenberg | Eckehard Rothenberg (b. 1938) is technical director of the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin-Treptow |
| 20518 | Rendtel | Jürgen Rendtel (b. 1954) is a solar physicist to the Astrophysical Institute in Potsdam and a keen a |
| 20529 | Zwerling | Blake Gordon Zwerling (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 20534 | Bozeman | Melissa Bozeman mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 20539 | Gadberry | Sandra Gadberry mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 20555 | Jennings | Barbara Jennings mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 20567 | McQuarrie | Kerry Ann McQuarrie mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC |
| 20570 | Molchan | Bonnie Molchan mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 20574 | Ochinero | Marcia Collin Ochinero mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DC |
| 20585 | Wentworth | Sandra Wentworth mentored a finalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 20593 | Freilich | Janet Freilich (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 20606 | Widemann | Thomas Widemann (b. 1961) is a planetary scientist at Paris Observatory and an associate professor a |
| 20607 | Vernazza | Pierre Vernazza (b. 1979) is a planetary scientist working at the European Space Agency's European S |
| 20687 | Saletore | Yogesh Saletore (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 20690 | Crivello | Joseph Crivello (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 20719 | Velasco | Rodrigo Velasco Velasco (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science a |
| 20740 | Sémery | Alain Sémery (b. 1944) is an engineer at Paris Observatory. He has contributed to the design and dev |
| 20768 | Langberg | Sarah Langberg (b. 1986) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2004 Intel Internationa |
| 20798 | Verlinden | Christopher Verlinden (b. 1986) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2004 Intel ISE F |
| 20804 | Etter | Dolores M. Etter is renowned for lifetime achievement in digital signal processing and contributions |
| 20870 | Kaningher | Laura Kaningher (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 20874 | MacGregor | Meredith MacGregor (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and En |
| 20883 | Gervais | Raphael Gervais (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 20892 | MacChnoic | Breandan Mac Chnoic (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and E |
| 20894 | Krumeich | Edwin Krumeich (b. 1986) was awarded first place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 20896 | Tiphene | Didier Tiphene (b. 1957) is deputy director of the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentati |
| 21001 | Trogrlic | The Trogrlic family includes Yvan (1908-1970), Marie (1912-1994) and their children Jean (b. 1934), |
| 21029 | Adorno | Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German philosopher and musicologist, was a leading figure in the Fran |
| 21062 | Iasky | Robert Iasky (b. 1956), geophysicist with the Geological Survey of Western Australia, discovered the |
| 21075 | Heussinger | Adalbert Heussinger (b. 1923) is a member of the Catholic order of Minorites. He was for 40 years c |
| 21114 | Bernson | Reysa Bernson (1904-1944) had a passion for science and after an encounter with Flammarion, who insp |
| 21258 | Huckins | Earle Knowlen Huckins, III (b. 1943), Deputy Associate Administrator in the Office of Space Science |
| 21276 | Feller | William Feller (1906-1970) studied at Zagreb and Göttingen and taught at Kiel, Stockholm, Brown Univ |
| 21380 | Devanssay | Jean Benoit De Vanssay (b. 1970) is a French amateur astronomer and optician. As an amateur he has m |
| 21399 | Bateman | Ailish Elizabeth Bateman (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science |
| 21403 | Haken | Ian Robert Haken (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competit |
| 21410 | Cahill | James Andrew Cahill (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science compe |
| 21414 | Blumenthal | Daniel Abraham Blumenthal (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science |
| 21418 | Bustos | Miguel Angel Bustos (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and E |
| 21419 | Devience | Stephen Jacob DeVience (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science co |
| 21425 | Cordwell | Robert Thomas Cordwell (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science co |
| 21435 | Aharon | Terri Aharon mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 21448 | Galindo | Armando Galindo mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 21449 | Hemmick | Lucinda Hemmick mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 21450 | Kissel | Stacy Kissel mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 21451 | Fisher | Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), a graduate of the University of Cambridge, was the foremost statis |
| 21455 | Mcfarland | Jennifer McFarland mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competitio |
| 21456 | Myers | Robert Myers mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 21457 | Fevig | Ronald A. Fevig (b. 1964), of the University of North Dakota, works on the spectroscopy of minor pla |
| 21463 | Nickerson | Laura Nickerson mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 21467 | Rosenstein | Peter Rosenstein mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition |
| 21468 | Saylor | Charlotte Saylor mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition |
| 21472 | Stimson | George Stimson mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition fo |
| 21476 | Petrie | William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), grandson of British explorer Matthew Flinders, was a self-taugh |
| 21482 | Patashnick | Harvey Patashnick mentored a finalist from Guilderland Central High School, Guilderland Center, New |
| 21484 | Eppard | Erin F. Eppard (b. 1988) was awarded first place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 21495 | Feaga | Lori Michele (Lanier) Feaga (b. 1975) is a spectroscopist from the ultraviolet to the infrared. She |
| 21499 | Perillat | Phil Perillat (b. 1952), senior software specialist at the Arecibo Observatory, has written the prim |
| 21500 | Vasquez | Angel Vasquez (b. 1955), PC network specialist and telescope operator at the Arecibo Observatory, ha |
| 21501 | Acevedo | Tony Acevedo (b. 1950) is a multimedia graphic designer and media officer at the Arecibo Observatory |
| 21502 | Cruz | Jose Cruz (b. 1946), operations group head and telescope operator at the Arecibo Observatory, has pl |
| 21503 | Beksha | Daniel B. Beksha, II (b. 1986) was awarded first place in the 2005 Intel International Science and E |
| 21505 | Bernert | Michael James Bernert (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and |
| 21506 | Betsill | Alayna Rachelle Betsill (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science a |
| 21507 | Bhasin | Jeffrey M. Bhasin (b. 1986) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel Internati |
| 21510 | Chemnitz | Mario Chemnitz (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 21511 | Chiardola | Hugo Gualterio Chiardola (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science |
| 21515 | Gavini | Madhavi Pulakat Gavini (b. 1989) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2006 Intel Inte |
| 21517 | Dobi | Kledin Dobi (b. 1988) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel International S |
| 21522 | Entwisle | Richard William Entwisle (b. 1986) was awarded first place in the 2005 Intel International Science a |
| 21527 | Horton | Douglas Ray Horton (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and En |
| 21530 | Despiau | Norberto Despiau (b. 1948), staff technician and telescope operator at the Arecibo Observatory, has |
| 21537 | Fréchet | Maurice Fréchet (1878-1973), a student of Hadamard and graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, was |
| 21541 | Friskop | Andrew John Friskop (b. 1987) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel Interna |
| 21543 | Jessop | Forrest Connell Jessop (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science an |
| 21545 | Koirala | Pratistha Koirala (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 21546 | Konermann | Silvana Konermann (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 21550 | Laviolette | Jessica Lynn Laviolette (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2006 Intel International Science an |
| 21555 | Levary | David Andrew Levary (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and E |
| 21561 | Masterman | Mary Masterman (b. 1989) was awarded first place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 21571 | Naegeli | Kaleb Markus Naegeli (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2006 Intel International Science and E |
| 21574 | Ouzan | Raphael Ouzan (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 21576 | McGivney | Michael J. McGivney (1852-1890), parish priest of St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, found |
| 21577 | Negron | Victor Negron (b. 1973), electronics technician and transmitter operator at the Arecibo Observatory, |
| 21580 | Portalatin | Wilfredo Portalatin (b. 1949), staff technician and telescope operator at the Arecibo Observatory, h |
| 21584 | Polepeddi | Lalith Kumar Polepeddi (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science an |
| 21585 | Polmear | Michael McCord Polmear (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science an |
| 21588 | Gianelli | Gabrielle Alyce Gianelli (b. 1988) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel In |
| 21589 | Rafes | Courtney Anne Rafes (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and E |
| 21605 | Reynoso | Jeremy Rosendo Reynoso (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science an |
| 21607 | Robel | Alexander Abram Robel (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
| 21608 | Gloyna | Tara Ellen Gloyna (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 21610 | Rosengard | Jamie Erin Rosengard (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
| 21611 | Rosoff | Matthew Scott Rosoff (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
| 21613 | Schlecht | Alissa Raenelle Schlecht (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science |
| 21615 | Guardamano | Andrew Lacson Guardamano (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science |
| 21621 | Sherman | Eric Alan Sherman (b. 1993) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 21627 | Sillis | Arnaud Georges Sillis (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
| 21629 | Siperstein | Brian Furness Siperstein (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science |
| 21636 | Huertas | Johiry Huertas (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 21642 | Kominers | Scott Duke Kominers (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and E |
| 21650 | Tilgner | Bruno Tilgner (1933-2002) spent most of his career working for the European Space Agency. He later b |
| 21659 | Fredholm | Ivar Fredholm (1866-1927) studied at the University of Uppsala and taught at the University of Stock |
| 21665 | Frege | Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), a professor at Jena, devoted his work to the goal of est |
| 21670 | Kuan | Aaron Tzeyang Kuan (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and En |
| 21671 | Warrener | Stephen Gerald Warrener (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science a |
| 21673 | Leatherman | Amanda Kay Leatherman (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and |
| 21678 | Lindner | Klaus Lindner (b. 1935) worked as a school teacher of astronomy in Germany for many years. He is kn |
| 21683 | Segal | Bruce A. Segal (b. 1959), an eye physician and surgeon in Florida, is also an amateur astronomer. S |
| 21686 | Koschny | Aerospace engineer Detlef Koschny (b. 1962) is a member of the Rosetta Project Scientists' Team of t |
| 21697 | Mascharak | Smita Mascharak (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engin |
| 21698 | McCarron | Tara Anne McCarron (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and En |
| 21699 | Wolpert | Maya Nina Wolpert (b. 1988) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2006 Intel Internati |
| 21708 | Mulhall | Michael Mulhall (b. 1987) was awarded first place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 21717 | Pang | Genevieve C. Pang (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 21724 | Ratai | Daniel Ratai (b. 1985) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel International |
| 21726 | Rezvanian | Jason Hamid Rezvanian (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and |
| 21727 | Rhines | Allison Shelton Rhines (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science an |
| 21732 | Rumery | Rhett Lee Rumery (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 21738 | Schwank | Benjamin Albert Schwank (b. 1987) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2005 Intel Int |
| 21753 | Trudel | Thomas Andrew Trudel (b. 1987) was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and |
| 21774 | O'Brien | David P. O'Brien (b. 1976) is a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson. He s |
| 21775 | Tsiganis | Kleomenis Tsiganis (b. 1974), of the University of Thessaloniki, works on the chaotic diffusion of m |
| 21795 | Masi | Gianluca Masi (b. 1972), an amateur astronomer since 1980, is involved with several scientific proje |
| 21811 | Burroughs | The fantasy novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) have fired the imaginations of generations of |
| 21822 | Degiorgi | Ennio De Giorgi (1928-1996) was an outstanding Italian mathematician, known for his fundamental theo |
| 21852 | Bolander | John Anthony Bolander (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 21858 | Gosal | Anudeep D. Gosal (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DC |
| 21887 | Dipippo | Simonetta Di Pippo (b. 1959) works on solar-system exploration at the Italian Space Agency. She has |
| 21888 | Ďurech | Josef Ďurech (b. 1974), of the Astronomical Institute, Charles University, in Prague, has provided l |
| 21903 | Wallace | Patrick T. Wallace (b. 1946) is a specialist in telescope control software. From 1973 to 1980 he wa |
| 21915 | Lavins | Gregory M. Lavins (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (D |
| 21919 | Luga | Melissa Pomaikai Akiko Luga (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Ch |
| 21922 | Mocz | Lucia Mocz (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 21932 | Rios | Roberto Andres Rios (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 21936 | Ryan | Colleen Marie Ryan (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 21949 | Tatulian | Adrian Surenovich Tatulian (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Cha |
| 21952 | Terry | Bailey Holly Terry (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 21965 | Dones | Henry C. “Luke” Dones (b. 1958) works on solar system dynamics at the Southwest Research Institute i |
| 21970 | Tyle | Sheel Tyle (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 21989 | Werntz | Ruslan Alan Werntz (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 21991 | Zane | Robert Teruo Zane (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (D |
| 21999 | Disora | Mario Di Sora is founder and manager of the Campo Catino Observatory. A lawyer by profession, as pr |
| 22003 | Startek | Jennifer Startek mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) |
| 22065 | Colgrove | Clinton Allen Colgrove mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 22082 | Rountree | Robert Rountree mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 22105 | Pirko | Richard G. Pirko (1952-2008) was a producer and space science educator for the Ward Beecher Planetar |
| 22132 | Merkley | Clark Merkley mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 22134 | Kirian | Drew Kirian mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 22146 | Samaan | Fida Samaan mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 22155 | Marchetti | David Marchetti mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 22161 | Santagata | William Santagata mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC |
| 22167 | Lane-Cline | Amanda Lane-Cline mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC |
| 22168 | Weissflog | German ski jumper Jens Weissflog (b. 1964) was born in the Erzgebirge mountains in Saxony. He won O |
| 22191 | Achúcarro | Joaquí Achúcarro (b. 1932) is a distinguished concert pianist, admired teacher and mentor, with a pe |
| 22275 | Barentsen | Geert Barentsen (b. 1984) is a research scientist at the University of Hertfordshire. He has contri |
| 22278 | Protitch | Known for his work in celestial mechanics and fundamental astronomy, Milorad B. Protitch (1911-2001) |
| 22281 | Popescu | Marcel Popescu (b. 1983) is a specialist in asteroid spectroscopy at the Astronomical Institute of t |
| 22294 | Simmons | Michael S. Simmons (b. 1949) dedicated time and effort to organizing the Palomar Observatory's 1.2-m |
| 22312 | Kelly | Thomas J. Kelly (1929-2002) was the chief engineer of the Apollo Lunar Module. Considered the “Fath |
| 22348 | Schmeidler | Felix Schmeidler (b. 1920), a professor at Munich University, has for many decades been an astronome |
| 22354 | Sposetti | Stefano Sposetti is an amateur astronomer and teacher who lives in the Italian-speaking part of Swit |
| 22356 | Feyerabend | Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) was a philosopher who criticized the scientific method, proposing instea |
| 22366 | Flettner | Anton Flettner (1885-1961) was a German aviation engineer and inventor. He made important contributi |
| 22378 | Gaherty | Geoff Gaherty (b. 1941) is an amateur astronomer who writes about observing and won the Chant Medal |
| 22410 | Grinspoon | David Grinspoon (b. 1959), an astrobiologist at the Southwest Research Institute, won the 2006 Carl |
| 22423 | Kudlacek | Trina Kudlacek (b. 1967) is a long-term volunteer with the University of Hawaii's Friends of the Ins |
| 22434 | Peredery | Walter Volodymyr Peredery (b. 1938) is a retired Canadian geologist who studied the Sudbury, Ontario |
| 22456 | Salopek | David Stephen Salopek (b. 1963) earned a Ph.D. in cosmology from the University of Toronto in 1989 a |
| 22474 | Frobenius | Georg Ferdinand Frobenius (1849-1917), a professor at the University of Berlin, made major contribut |
| 22485 | Unterman | Nathan Unterman mentored a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 22492 | Mosig | Thomas Mosig mentored a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for |
| 22495 | Fubini | Guido Fubini (1879-1943) taught at the universities of Catania, Genoa and Turin. In 1938 he was inv |
| 22498 | Willman | Mark Willman (b. 1952) received his Ph.D. in planetary astronomy from the University of Hawaii's Ins |
| 22512 | Cannat | Guillaume Cannat (b. 1962) is a scientific journalist and author. He worked for many years with the |
| 22527 | Gawlik | Evan Scott Gawlik (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science c |
| 22534 | Lieblich | Jerrold Alexander Lieblich (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a |
| 22540 | Mork | Anna Jolene Mork (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science co |
| 22542 | Pendri | Kiran Reddy Pendri (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science |
| 22546 | Schickler | Carmiel Effron Schickler (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a sc |
| 22562 | Wage | Nicholas Michael Wage (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a scien |
| 22567 | Zenisek | Sergio-Francis Mellejor Zenisek (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS |
| 22583 | Metzler | William Metzler mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competi |
| 22587 | McKennon | Blanche McKennon mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science compet |
| 22594 | Stoops | Tracy Stoops mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competitio |
| 22611 | Galerkin | Boris Grigorievich Galerkin (1871-1945) studied engineering in his native Russia and abroad. His sc |
| 22613 | Callander | Thomas Callander Price Zimmermann (b. 1934) has been professor of renaissance history at Reed Colleg |
| 22623 | Fisico | Misael Fisico mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 22625 | Kanipe | Linda Kanipe mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competitio |
| 22630 | Wallmuth | Joanne Wallmuth mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competi |
| 22631 | Dillard | Linda Dillard mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 22632 | DiNovis | Joanne DiNovis mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competit |
| 22633 | Fazio | Marc Fazio mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition |
| 22645 | Rotblat | Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005) was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1995 for his efforts toward nuclear d |
| 22685 | Dominguez | Isabella Rosa Dominguez (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challe |
| 22694 | Tyndall | Irish natural philosopher John Tyndall (1820-1893) made fundamental investigations of the motion of |
| 22706 | Ganguly | Shilpi Ganguly (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYS |
| 22717 | Romeuf | David Romeuf (b. 1969) is an amateur astronomer who worked as a student at the OCA Schmidt telescope |
| 22724 | Byatt | Antonia Susan (“A. S.”) Byatt (b. 1936) is an English writer, well known for her novels and short st |
| 22725 | Drabble | English writer Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) has, among other works, published seventeen novels, has ed |
| 22732 | Jakpor | Otana Agape Jakpor (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge ( |
| 22740 | Rayleigh | John William Rayleigh (1842-1919) was an English physicist who discovered the element argon, for whi |
| 22757 | Klimcak | Sophie Haruna Klimcak (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challeng |
| 22758 | Lemp | Nicholas Andrew Lemp (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 22776 | Matossian | Mikael Hagop Matossian (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challen |
| 22777 | McAliley | Collin Northcott McAliley (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chal |
| 22780 | McAlpine | Jayleen Jo McAlpine (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 22783 | Teng | Stacy H. Teng (b. 1980), a recent Ph.D. recipient at the University of Maryland, studies the evoluti |
| 22791 | Twarog | Bruce Twarog (b. 1952), a professor at the University of Kansas, has studied globular clusters, open |
| 22812 | Ricker | Philip Daniel Ricker (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 22815 | Sewell | Michael T. Sewell (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (D |
| 22830 | Tinker | Joel Jack Tinker (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DC |
| 22843 | Stverak | Janet Stverak mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 22847 | Utley | Meredith Utley mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 22852 | Kinney | Steve Kinney mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 22857 | Hyde | Tammi Hyde mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a mi |
| 22868 | Karst | Carol A. Karst mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 22870 | Rosing | Wayne Rosing (b. 1946) is an electrical engineer and computer industry executive. He has also been a |
| 22880 | Pulaski | A Polish soldier, Kazimierz Michal Waclaw Wiktor Pulaski (1745-1779), is often called “the father of |
| 22913 | Brockman | Gregory Drew Brockman (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a scien |
| 22927 | Blewett | Megan Marie Blewett (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science |
| 22939 | Handlin | Daniel Adam Handlin (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science |
| 22957 | Vaintrob | Dmitry Vaintrob (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science com |
| 22981 | Katz | Daniel Scott Katz (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science c |
| 22994 | Workman | David Workman mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 22996 | De Boo | Edward de Boo mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 22998 | Waltimyer | David Waltimyer mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competi |
| 23006 | Pazden | Stan Pazden mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition |
| 23011 | Petach | Helen Petach mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competitio |
| 23014 | Walstein | Eric Walstein mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 23032 | Fossey | American occupational therapist Dian Fossey (1932-1985) spent many years in Africa studying the beha |
| 23040 | Latham | Robert Latham mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 23041 | Hunt | Patricia Hunt mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 23047 | Isseroff | Rebecca Isseroff mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science compet |
| 23060 | Shepherd | Karen Shepherd mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competit |
| 23061 | Blueglass | Michael Blueglass mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science compe |
| 23063 | Lichtman | Paul Lichtman mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 23069 | Kapps | Michael Kapps (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 23070 | Koussa | Mounir Ahmad Koussa (b. 1989) was awarded first place in the 2007 Intel International Science and En |
| 23079 | Munguia | Scott Miguel Munguia (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and |
| 23091 | Stansill | Lacey Nicole Stansill (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and |
| 23115 | Valcourt | James R. Valcourt (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 23116 | Streich | Philip Vidal Streich (b. 1991) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2007 Intel Intern |
| 23122 | Lorgat | Raeez Lorgat (b. 1990) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2007 Intel International |
| 23128 | Dorminy | John Wilson Dorminy (b. 1991) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and E |
| 23158 | Bouligny | Ian Michael Bouligny (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and |
| 23164 | Badger | David Charles Griffiths Badger (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Sc |
| 23178 | Ghaben | Alexandra L. Ghaben (b. 1992) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and E |
| 23198 | Norvell | Leighton Marie Norvell (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science an |
| 23221 | Delgado | Eric Nelson Delgado (b. 1990) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2007 Intel Interna |
| 23232 | Buschur | Kristina Lynn Buschur (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and |
| 23244 | Lafayette | Recognized as a symbolic figure of French-American friendship, Marie-Josephe Paul Yves Roch Gilbert |
| 23246 | Terazono | Junya Terazono (b.1967) is a planetary scientist and information technology specialist. He has parti |
| 23248 | Batchelor | Holly Reid Batchelor (b. 1989) was awarded first place in the 2007 Intel International Science and E |
| 23257 | Denny | The Pin Point Astrometry Engine and ACP telescope control of Robert B. Denny (b. 1946) are significa |
| 23265 | von Wurden | Caroline Julia von Wurden (b. 1991) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science |
| 23270 | Kellerman | Tanja Kellerman (b. 1988) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2007 Intel Internation |
| 23325 | Arroyo | Alejandro Arroyo (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 23404 | Bomans | Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans (1913-1971) was a popular Dutch author known for his books of modern-day |
| 23452 | Drew | Drew Barringer (b. 1946) is president of the Barringer Crater Company, which owns and maintains the |
| 23514 | Schneider | Reinhold Schneider (1903-1958) is a German writer and essayist. The topics of his stories, dramas an |
| 23612 | Ramzel | Allen Lee Ramzel (b. 1960) was an observer and systems engineer for the team that discovered this ob |
| 23625 | Gelfond | Alexandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906-1968) studied and taught mathematics at the University of Moscow. |
| 23672 | Swiggum | Leslie Swiggum mentored a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition fo |
| 23707 | Chambliss | Carlson R. Chambliss (b. 1941) is an astronomer and Emeritus Professor at Kutztown University in Kut |
| 23722 | Gulak | Benjamin Poss Gulak (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and E |
| 23730 | Suncar | Jonathan Kelvin Suncar (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science an |
| 23735 | Cohen | Julia Lynn Cohen (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 23749 | Thygesen | Jakob Refer Thygesen (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and |
| 23776 | Gosset | William Sealy Gosset (1876-1937) studied mathematics and chemistry at Oxford. His most important co |
| 23777 | Goursat | Edouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (1858-1936) made contributions to many areas of mathematical analysis. |
| 23779 | Cambier | Colleen Siobahn Cambier (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challe |
| 23788 | Cofer | Evan Mitchell Cofer (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 23804 | Haber | Catherine Michelle Haber (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chall |
| 23809 | Haswell | John Douglas Reiji Haswell (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Cha |
| 23812 | Jannuzi | Brigg Lowell Jannuzi (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge |
| 23833 | Mowers | Christopher Scott Mowers (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chall |
| 23875 | Strube | Katherine Michaela Strube (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Chal |
| 23877 | Gourmaud | Jamy Gourmaud (b. 1964) is a journalist involved with Frédéric Courant and Sabine Quindou in the cre |
| 23890 | Quindou | French journalist Sabine Quindou (b. 1970) joined the team of c'est pas sorcier, the longest |
| 23893 | Lauman | Stephen W. Lauman (b. 1974) is an instrument maker at Lowell Observatory. Extramurally, he is an acc |
| 23898 | Takir | Driss Takir (b. 1973) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ithaca |
| 23937 | Delibes | Léo Delibes (1836-1891) wrote several classical ballets, including Coppelia and Sylvia |
| 23944 | Dusser | French amateur astronomer Raymond Dusser (1933-2006) devoted himself to the observation of occultati |
| 23975 | Akran | Erkan Akran mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 23980 | Ogden | Kristen Ogden mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 23994 | Mayhan | Rosemarie Mayhan mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) |
| 23995 | Oechsle | Janet Oechsle mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 23999 | Rinner | Claudine Rinner (b. 1965) is a very active French amateur astronomer. She works in Ottmarsheim on a |
| 24010 | Stovall | Laraine Stovall mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24021 | Yocum | Ivan Yocum mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a mi |
| 24026 | Pusateri | Lynne Pusateri mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24027 | Downs | Karen Downs mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a m |
| 24044 | Caballo | Cindy Caballo mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a |
| 24045 | Unruh | Amy Unruh mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a mid |
| 24051 | Hadinger | Melisa Hadinger mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24059 | Halverson | Carl Halverson mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24060 | Schimenti | Jamie Schimenti mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24062 | Hardister | Scott Hardister mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), |
| 24068 | Simonsen | Larry Simonsen, Jr. mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCY |
| 24087 | Ciambetti | Since 2005 Roberto Ciambetti (b. 1946) has been promoting a new law against light pollution in the V |
| 24101 | Cassini | Giovanni Domenico (a.k.a. Jean Dominique) Cassini (1625-1712), an Italian-born French astronomer, wa |
| 24103 | Dethury | César-François Cassini (1714-1784), a.k.a. Cassini de Thury or Cassini III, succeeded his father, Ja |
| 24105 | Broughton | Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton (b. 1952) received a Shoemaker NEO grant in 2002 and ac |
| 24124 | Dozier | Benjamin Edward Dozier (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a scie |
| 24301 | Gural | Peter S. Gural (b. 1955) is a scientist who has applied advanced image processing techniques to both |
| 24386 | McLindon | Bonnie Joyce McLindon (b. 1992) was awarded first place in the 2008 Intel International Science and |
| 24411 | Janches | Diego Janches (b. 1967) is a space weather scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He uses ra |
| 24439 | Yanney | Michael (b. 1933) and Gail (b. 1936) Yanney are American philanthropists and community leaders, base |
| 24480 | Glavin | Daniel P. Glavin (b. 1974) is an astrobiologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, with a research |
| 24493 | McCommon | Steven Richard McCommon (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2008 Intel International Science a |
| 24495 | Degroff | Bill DeGroff (b. 1956), Telescope Facilities Manager at Lowell Observatory, was instrumental in real |
| 24503 | Kero | Johan Kero (b. 1978) is a scientist at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics whose research include |
| 24520 | Abramson | Ronit Batya Roth Abramson (b. 1991) was awarded second place in the 2008 Intel International Science |
| 24601 | Valjean | When Jean Valjean, the central character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, was in prison, he w |
| 24643 | MacCready | Paul MacCready (b. 1933) designed the first human-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor, followed by |
| 24646 | Stober | Gunter Stober (b. 1979) is an expert in radar measurements of meteors and the atmosphere at the Leib |
| 24654 | Fossett | On his sixth attempt, Steve Fossett (b. 1944) became the first person to fly a balloon solo around t |
| 24658 | Misch | Anthony Misch (b. 1951) has made significant contributions to the history of astronomy through his |
| 24681 | Granados | Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was a Spanish pianist and a composer of classical music in an uniquely |
| 24712 | Boltzmann | Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) confirmed Maxwellian electrodynamics experimentally |
| 24728 | Scagell | Robin Scagell (b. 1946) joined the Junior Astronomical Society, now the Society for Popular Astrono |
| 24856 | Messidoro | Piero Messidoro (b. 1950) is an Italian space engineer who has developed projects and technologies i |
| 24916 | Stelzhamer | Franz Stelzhamer (1802-1874), great Austrian poet and novelist, studied law, theology and painting, |
| 24945 | Houziaux | Léo Houziaux (b. 1932), a Belgian astrophysicist at Liège University, specialized in stellar structu |
| 24947 | Hausdorff | Felix Hausdorff (1877-1942) taught at several German universities and did research in mathematical a |
| 24959 | Zielenbach | A former rocket scientist, Bill Zielenbach (b. 1943) worked in the printing industry. Since retiri |
| 24994 | Prettyman | Thomas H. Prettyman (b. 1964), a senior scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, led the gamm |
| 24998 | Hermite | Charles Hermite (1822-1901) was a very versatile French analyst and algebraist. He solved the quint |
| 25001 | Pacheco | Rafael Pacheco (b. 1954) is an amateur astronomer, astrometrist and co-discoverer of minor planets. |
| 25051 | Vass | Gheorghe Vass (b. 1944) is an astronomer at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy spec |
| 25062 | Rasmussen | Jesper Lykke Rasmussen (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2008 Intel International Science an |
| 25084 | Jutzi | Martin Jutzi (b. 1979) is a researcher at the University of Bern studying impact processes in the s |
| 25085 | Melena | Robin Melena (b. 1959) is secretary-treasurer of Lowell Observatory. She manages all the observatory |
| 25138 | Jaumann | Ralf Jaumann (b. 1954) is a research scientist at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt and |
| 25139 | Roatsch | Thomas Roatsch (b. 1958) is a cartographer of planetary satellite and asteroid surfaces working at t |
| 25142 | Hopf | Heinz Hopf (1894-1971), of German origin, was a professor of mathematics at the Swiss Institute of T |
| 25152 | Toplis | Michael J. Toplis (b. 1969) is a geochemist at the University of Toulouse. Combining data returned |
| 25154 | Ayers | Robert Martin Ayers (b. 1941) is a long-time supporter of Lowell Observatory, currently serving as s |
| 25155 | van Belle | Gerard van Belle (b. 1968) is an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory. His research interests includ |
| 25157 | Fabian | Andrew Christopher Fabian (b. 1948) is an X-ray astronomer at the University of Cambridge. He has wo |
| 25158 | Berman | Alan Berman (b. 1925) is a physicist who played a seminal role in developing modern electronic comm |
| 25161 | Strosahl | Susan Strosahl (b. 1960) has been a employee of Lowell Observatory since 2003. She has a degree in |
| 25162 | Beckage | Michael (Mike) Beckage (b. 1959) is a long-time supporter of Lowell Observatory, currently serving a |
| 25165 | Leget | Robert Leget (b. 1935) is an American educator who taught high school earth science, chemistry and m |
| 25166 | Thompson | Samantha Thompson (b. 1985) is the curator of exhibits at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. She h |
| 25189 | Glockner | Katherine Whittemore Glockner (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2008 Society for Science and the Public |
| 25226 | Brasch | Klaus Brasch (b. 1940) began volunteering at Lowell Observatory in 2008 as a portable telescope ope |
| 25230 | Borgis | Steven Borgis (b. 1953) is an American educator and coach, who taught language arts for three decade |
| 25231 | Naylor | Kris Naylor (b. 1966) has been utilizing her amateur astronomy skills since 2005 as a Lowell Observ |
| 25232 | Schatz | Dennis Schatz (b. 1947) is an American astronomer and educator who was Vice-President of the Pacifi |
| 25233 | Tallman | Gary Tallman (b. 1943) has volunteered in Lowell Observatory's daytime outreach programs since 2012 |
| 25234 | Odell | Andy Odell (b. 1949) is a professional astronomer. He's been involved with Lowell's evening outreac |
| 25237 | Hurwitz | Adolf Hurwitz (1859-1919), a student of Klein and teacher of Hilbert and Minkowski, was associated f |
| 25316 | Comnick | Richard “Rich” Comnick (b. 1940) has been a volunteer in the Lowell Observatory archives since 2007 |
| 25399 | Vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922) is a revolutionary U.S. science-fiction writer who crossed over into mainstr |
| 25492 | Firnberg | Anat Firnberg mentored a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 25552 | Gaster | Richard Gaster (b. 1984), with Drew Hall, won the 2009 Student Humanitarian Supreme Prize of the IEE |
| 25594 | Kessler | Marvin Kessler (b. 1918) has been a member of the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomer's League for o |
| 25604 | Karlin | Samuel Karlin (b. 1924) spent most of his academic career at Stanford University. He has been a pro |
| 25624 | Kronecker | Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) was a German mathematician who published widely in a variety of fields |
| 25625 | Verdenet | Michel Verdenet (b. 1944), a schoolteacher in Bourbon Lancy, France, has observed variable stars and |
| 25628 | Kummer | Ernst Eduard Kummer (1811-1893) was a professor at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin. He spent |
| 25673 | Di Mascio | Michael Vincent Di Mascio (b. 1992) was awarded second place in the 2009 Intel International Science |
| 25725 | McCormick | Lydia L McCormick (b. 1992) was awarded first place in the 2009 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 25743 | Serrato | Roger Serrato (b. 1954) has volunteered at Lowell Observatory since 2012. He has recently been in |
| 25867 | DeMuth | Mary DeMuth (b. 1954) has worked at Lowell Observatory since 2001, starting as the Observatory's fro |
| 25906 | Morrell | Nidia I. Morrell (b. 1953) is an astronomer at Las Campanas Observatory known for her work on O-typ |
| 25914 | Bair | Allison Bair (b. 1977) works at Lowell Observatory as a research assistant performing studies of the |
| 25930 | Spielberg | Steven Spielberg (b. 1946), regarded by many as one of the best movie directors in recent history, i |
| 25942 | Walborn | Nolan R. Walborn (b. 1945) is a stellar spectroscopist specializing in the optical and ultraviolet |
| 25954 | Trantow | Donald “Don” Trantow (b. 1942) is a long-time supporter of Lowell Observatory, currently serving on |
| 25955 | Radway | John Radway (b. 1936) is a long-time supporter of Lowell Observatory, currently serving on the Advi |
| 26200 | Van Doren | Benjamin Mark Van Doren (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science c |
| 26264 | McIntyre | Nancy McIntyre mentored a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competit |
| 26293 | Van Muyden | David Van Muyden mentored a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science compet |
| 26355 | Grueber | Johannes Grueber (1623-1680) was a Jesuit priest, missionary, mathematician and astronomer at the Ch |
| 26357 | Laguerre | French mathematician Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (1834-1886) published extensively in geometry and mathe |
| 26488 | Beiser | Antoinette S. Beiser (b. 1956), Lowell Observatory's librarian for twenty years, now concentrates on |
| 26495 | Eichorn | Will Eichorn (b. 1943) is an amateur astronomer and retired Dow Chemical optical technician, living |
| 26533 | Aldering | Greg Aldering (b. 1962) is a member of Supernova Cosmology Project studying the use of Type Ia super |
| 26586 | Harshaw | Richard Harshaw (b. 1951) is an Arizona amateur astronomer who makes measurements of double stars. |
| 26629 | Zahller | This minor planet honors the discoverer's mother, Cordelia Zahller Luginbuhl (1927-2001), and the Za |
| 26652 | Klinglesmith | Daniel A. Klinglesmith III (b. 1939) received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Indiana University in 1 |
| 26811 | Hiesinger | Harald Hiesinger (b. 1964) is a planetary geologist at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Müns |
| 26849 | De Paepe | Hugo de Paepe (b. 1940) is a doctor of medicine and a specialist in orthopaedic surgery, lecturing s |
| 26879 | Haines | Peter Haines (b. 1960), associate professor of geology with the University of Tasmania, has worked i |
| 26908 | Lebesgue | Henri-Léon Lebesgue (1875-1941), professor at the Collège de France, is considered one of the greate |
| 26909 | Lefschetz | Solomon Lefschetz (1884-1972), professor at Princeton University, made important contributions in al |
| 26935 | Vireday | Carol Claire Vireday (b. 1957) is the wife of the discoverer. |
| 26950 | Legendre | Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) was a French mathematician who published important treatises on el |
| 26993 | Littlewood | John Edensor Littlewood (1885-1977) was an English mathematician mainly associated with Trinity Coll |
| 27049 | Kraus | Adam Levi Kraus (b. 1980) has developed a data-processing pipeline for the MOTESS survey instrument |
| 27094 | Salgari | Emilio Salgari, “King of Adventure” (1862-1911), writer of works that nourished the fantasy of many |
| 27184 | Ciabattari | Fabrizio Ciabattari (b. 1970) is an Italian amateur astronomer, who has been Director of the Astrono |
| 27239 | O'Dorney | Evan Michael O'Dorney (b. 1993) was a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, a science co |
| 27267 | Wiberg | Kenneth B. Wiberg (b. 1927) has made many important contributions to the areas of spectroscopy, orga |
| 27320 | Vellinga | Joseph Vellinga (b. 1938) is the Flight System Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mis |
| 27348 | Mink | Ronald Mink (b. 1970) is the Deputy Project Systems Engineer for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Retu |
| 27349 | Enos | Heather Enos (b. 1968) is the Project Planning and Control Officer for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampl |
| 27412 | Teague | Thomas Teague (b. 1954) is a barrister in London and a well known amateur astronomer in the U.K. Hi |
| 27413 | Ambruster | Carol Ambruster (1943-2013) did pioneering research on magnetic activity and flares of cool stars. |
| 27425 | Bakker | American paleontologist Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945) was instrumental in developing modern theories ab |
| 27657 | Berkhey | Joannes Le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) was a famous Dutch physician, biologist and naturalist not |
| 27706 | Strogen | James A. Strogen (b. 1947) assisted in organizing the Palomar Observatory's 1.2-m Schmidt Oschin Tel |
| 27711 | Kirschvink | Joseph L. Kirschvink (b. 1954) is a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. |
| 27719 | Fast | Wilhelm Fast (1936-2005), a mathematician from Tomsk University, directed a project to measure the a |
| 27758 | Michelson | German-American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931), 1907 Nobel Physics Laureate, refuted |
| 27764 | von Flüe | Niklaus von Flüe (1417-1487), councillor, judge, mystic and father of ten children, saved Switzerlan |
| 27846 | Honegger | Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) was an uncommonly versatile and highly esteemed mu |
| 27899 | Letterman | David M. Letterman (b. 1947) is a seven-time Emmy-winning American comedian, actor and producer. He |
| 27922 | Mascheroni | Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750-1800), professor at the University of Pavia and author of a treatise on sta |
| 27938 | Guislain | Joseph Guislain (1797-1860), one of the first students at the University of Ghent, was appointed hea |
| 27949 | Jonasz | Michel Jonasz (b. 1947) is a French poet and singer whose art has inspired and uplifted many observe |
| 27963 | Hartkopf | US astronomer William I. Hartkopf (b. 1951), president of IAU Commission 26 (Double and Multiple Sta |
| 27983 | Bernardi | Fabrizio Bernardi (b. 1972) worked at the University of Padua on studies of minor planets with the R |
| 27988 | Menabrea | Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809-1896), Piedmontese mathematician and statesman, is best remembered for |
| 28059 | Kiliaan | Cornelis Kiliaan (ca. 1528-1607) was a Flemish linguist who made the first explanatory dictionary of |
| 28059 | Kiliaan | Cornelis Kiliaan (ca. 1528-1607) was a Flemish linguist who made the first explanatory dictionary of |
| 28105 | Santallo | Roland Santallo (b. 1943) is an amateur astronomer observing from Tahiti. He has observed many catac |
| 28156 | McColl | Adrienne Brooke McColl (b. 1993) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel Inte |
| 28248 | Barthélémy | Pierre Barthélémy (b. 1967) is a French scientific journalist working mainly for “Le Monde”, where h |
| 28251 | Gerbaldi | Michele Gerbaldi (b. 1944) is a French astronomer specializing in stellar astrophysics. She worked a |
| 28341 | Bingaman | Missouri-born Kory Bingaman (b. 1984) is a talented artist and graphic novelist. |
| 28341 | Bingaman | Missouri-born Kory Bingaman (b. 1984) is a talented artist and graphic novelist. |
| 28396 | Eymann | Raymond Eymann is a French amateur astronomer who built an astronomical observatory at Taissy. The |
| 28475 | Garrett | Lawrence Garrett (b. 1959) has been the Assistant Coordinator for the Minor Planets Section of the A |
| 28509 | Feddersen | Matthew Troy Feddersen (b. 1993) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel Inte |
| 28519 | Sweetman | Michael Sweetman (b. 1952) has been an amateur astronomer since the early 1960s, becoming an accompl |
| 28564 | Gunderman | Lane Gunderman (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competitio |
| 28569 | Kallenbach | Jonah Kallenbach (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competit |
| 28575 | McQuaid | Daniel Conor McQuaid (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science comp |
| 28592 | O'Leary | Vincent Jacob O'Leary (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
| 28599 | Terenzoni | Michael Terenzoni (b. 1964) served as the Astronomy Coordinator at Flandrau Science Center. He late |
| 28601 | Benton | Julius Benton (b. 1949) has been a key member of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (A |
| 28602 | Westfall | John Westfall (b. 1938) is Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University and the former Execu |
| 28603 | Jenkins | Jamey Jenkins (b. 1955) is an American amateur astronomer who served as Assistant Coordinator-Archiv |
| 28729 | Moivre | Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but flourished in England. He wrote a major treati |
| 28766 | Monge | While a student at the Ecole Royal du Génie, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) solved a problem relating to |
| 28784 | Deringer | Nancy Deringer mentored a finalist in the 2013 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for |
| 28803 | Roe | Henry G. Roe (b. 1975), is an assistant astronomer at Lowell Observatory. His research interests inc |
| 28836 | Ashmore | Elisabeth Anne Ashmore (b. 1996) was awarded second place in the 2013 Intel International Science an |
| 28855 | Burchell | Sydney Veronica Burchell (b. 1996) was awarded first place in the 2013 Intel International Science a |
| 29133 | Vargas | Norman L. Vargas (b. 1972) assisted in organizing the Palomar Observatory's 1.2-m Schmidt Oschin Tel |
| 29146 | McHone | John F. McHone (b. 1944), a versatile scientist with interests in geology, oceanography and planetar |
| 29148 | Palzer | Wolfgang Palzer, of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Urania in Wiesbaden, has observed occultations an |
| 29187 | Le Monnier | Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715–1799) was a French astronomer who, in 1736–1737, accompanied Maupert |
| 29203 | Schnitger | Arp Schnitger (1648-1719) was the most important organ builder in northern Europe during the Baroque |
| 29227 | Wegener | German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) created the theory of continental drift, which explained |
| 29244 | Van Damme | Jozef Van Damme (b. 1912) was born in the beautiful village of Kaprijke (East Flanders), not far fro |
| 29298 | Cruls | Luis Cruls (1848-1908) was a Belgian-born Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. Director of the Brazil |
| 29311 | Lesire | Though suffering severely from hardness of hearing from an early age and moving from one school to a |
| 29348 | Criswick | John Criswick (b. 1963) is a University of Victoria alumnus who, as a result of his passion for astr |
| 29435 | Mordell | Louis Joel Mordell (1888-1972) was born in the U.S. but moved to England as a student and spent the |
| 29437 | Marchais | French amateur astronomer Denis Marchais (b. 1976) spent a large part of his time writing the free a |
| 29458 | Pearson | Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was a professor of mathematics and mechanics at University College, London, |
| 29483 | Boeker | Karolin Kleemann-Boeker (b. 1966) and Andreas Boeker (b. 1964) are longtime German amateur astronome |
| 29491 | Pfaff | Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765-1825) was a German mathematician who proposed the first general method |
| 29508 | Bottinelli | Lucette Bottinelli (1937-2015) was a French radio astronomer from Meudon Observatory, who taught at |
| 29614 | Sheller | William Sheller (b. 1949) is a French composer, singer and pianist. He studied classical music but a |
| 29633 | Weatherwax | Craig (b. 1947) and Leigh (b. 1947) Weatherwax have helped the astronomy community in southern Calif |
| 29643 | Plücker | Julius Plücker (1801-1868), German mathematician and physicist, proposed that the fundamental elemen |
| 29646 | Polya | George Polya (1887-1985), a Hungarian-American mathematician, was a prolific researcher in probabili |
| 29647 | Poncelet | Jean Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) was a French mathematician and engineer and one of the founders of |
| 29696 | Distasio | Penny Distasio (b. 1955) is an amateur astronomer and author. She ran the OPTAS astronomy club for 1 |
| 29700 | Salmon | George Salmon (1819-1904) was a fellow in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a profes |
| 29750 | Chleborad | Cary W. Chleborad (b. 1970) is an amateur astronomer who has been a developer of commercial precisio |
| 29829 | Engels | Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was a famous philosopher and the main thinker of dialectical materialis |
| 29832 | Steinwehr | Dre Erik Howard Steinwehr (b. 1995) was awarded first place in the 2013 Intel International Science |
| 29837 | Savage | Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917-1971), American statistician, wrote important papers on the foundations |
| 29845 | Wykrota | A couple of Brazilian amateur astronomers, Zininha and Henrique Wykrota were pioneers in the study a |
| 29910 | Segre | Corrado Segre (1863-1924) was a professor of geometry at the University of Turin. He did research o |
| 30042 | Schmude | Richard Schmude (b. 1958) is Professor of Astronomy at Gordon State College. He has served as Coordi |
| 30097 | Traino | Alan Traino (b. 1958) is a board member of the Rockland Astronomy Club and the organizer of the ann |
| 30281 | Horstman | Helen Horstman (b. 1936) is a long-time employee of Lowell Observatory, starting in 1964 and retirin |
| 30305 | Severi | Francesco Severi (1879-1961), a student of Corrado Segre and later a professor at the University of |
| 30321 | McCleary | Jennifer McCleary (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competi |
| 30406 | Middleman | Elaine Middleman mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science compet |
| 30417 | Staudt | Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798-1867), a professor at the University of Erlangen, gave the fir |
| 30425 | Silverman | Emily Silverman mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competi |
| 30443 | Stieltjes | Thomas Jan Stieltjes (1856-1894) was a professor at the University of Groningen. He published widel |
| 30445 | Stirling | James Stirling (1692-1770) was a Scottish mathematician best known for his derivation of an asymptot |
| 30566 | Stokes | George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of |
| 30718 | Records | Brenda Records (b. 1946) served the Indiana University Astronomy Department for more than 20 years. |
| 30775 | Lattu | Kristan Rosemary Lattu (1947-2003), a member of the JPL technical staff, specialized in space system |
| 30785 | Greeley | Ronald Greeley (b. 1939) has been involved in lunar and planetary studies since 1967. His current r |
| 30786 | Karkoschka | German-born Erich Karkoschka (b. 1955) is an astronomer at the University of Arizona. His field of |
| 30928 | Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States (1801-1809), will be always r |
| 30955 | Weiser | German palaeontologic geologist Thorolf Weiser (b. 1938) published an in situ investigation o |
| 31043 | Sturm | Charles-François Sturm (1803-1855) was a Swiss-born French mathematician. He proved a theorem that |
| 31086 | Gehringer | Nebraskan amateur astronomer and high-school science teacher Thomas P. Gehringer (1953-2002) was a |
| 31113 | Stull | John Stull has selflessly spent much time and effort to build the observatory at Alfred University f |
| 31174 | Rozelot | Jean Pierre Rozelot (b. 1942) is a solar astronomer who has worked at Pic du Midi Observatory and at |
| 31189 | Tricomi | Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (1897-1978) was a professor in Torino and a prolific researcher in classic |
| 31190 | Toussaint | Roberta Marie Toussaint (b. 1954) is a U.S. experimental physicist noted for developing biomagnetic |
| 31203 | Hersman | Chris Becker Hersman (b. 1964) is the spacecraft systems engineer of the New Horizons Pluto Kuiper B |
| 31231 | Uthmann | Barbara Uthmann (1514-1575) is said to have introduced the art of making lace into the Erzgebirge mo |
| 31266 | Tournefort | French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was the first to made a clear distinction be |
| 31268 | Welty | Sandra Welty (b. 1969) is a high-school teacher of English at Kenwood High School, Baltimore County, |
| 31442 | Stark | Lawrence W. Stark (b. 1926) has been a pioneering researcher in the application of control and infor |
| 31483 | Caulfield | Sarayu Caulfield (b. 1997) was awarded second place in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 31522 | McCutchen | Jonathan James McCutchen (b. 1999) was awarded first place in the 2014 Intel International Science a |
| 31555 | Wheeler | John Archibald Wheeler (b. 1911), one of the world's finest theoretical physicists, was a professor |
| 31556 | Shatner | William Shatner (b. 1931) is a Canadian actor. Best known for portraying Captain James Tiberius Kir |
| 31665 | Veblen | Oswald Veblen (1880-1960) was a professor at Princeton and later at the Institute for Advanced Study |
| 31823 | Viète | François Viète (1540-1603) was a French lawyer and mathematician who introduced the modern algebraic |
| 31862 | Garfinkle | Robert A. Garfinkle (b. 1947) is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and author of best-selli |
| 31876 | Jenkens | Robert Jenkens (b. 1962) is Deputy Project Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission |
| 31931 | Sipiera | Paul P. Sipiera (b. 1948) is a professor of geology and astronomy at Harper College and president of |
| 31956 | Wald | Abraham Wald (1902-1950) was an American statistician whose most important work was the development |
| 31957 | Braunstein | Simone Braunstein (b. 1997) was awarded second place in the 2015 Intel International Science and Eng |
| 31984 | Unger | Adam Unger (b. 1919), a basket maker by profession, was heavily involved in the construction of the |
| 32014 | Bida | Thomas A. Bida (b. 1959) is an instrument scientist at Lowell Observatory. He has developed instrume |
| 32096 | Puckett | Tim Puckett (b. 1962) built the Puckett Observatory in Elijay, Georgia, for cometary studies and sup |
| 32564 | Glass | Eugene Glass (b. 1926) is an amateur astronomer and loyal supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observ |
| 32569 | Deming | Leo Deming (b. 1918) is an amateur astronomer and one of the founders of the original observatory at |
| 32571 | Brayton | Scott Brayton (1959-1996) tragically lost his life in a crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway jus |
| 32608 | Hallas | Tony Hallas (b. 1945) trained as a professional photographer and is one of the finest astroimagers. |
| 32621 | Talcott | Richard Talcott (b. 1954) joined the staff of Astronomy magazine in early 1986. Since then, h |
| 32796 | Ehrenfest | Working at the University of Leiden after 1912, Jewish-Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933) |
| 32810 | Steinbach | Manfred Steinbach (b. 1937), for 27 years with Carl Zeiss, Jena has been a professor of precision in |
| 32890 | Schwob | Pierre Schwob (b. 1946) is a software engineer whose eclectic interests bring together studies in co |
| 33027 | Brouillac | Laurent Brouillac (b. 1967), a member of the Association des Utilisateurs de Détecteurs Electronique |
| 33103 | Pintar | James Anthony Pintar (b. 1947) is a U.S. physicist and data and software expert who moved from manag |
| 33154 | Talent | David L. Talent was the contractor team leader for the NEAT camera transition to the 1.2-m AMOS tele |
| 33334 | Turon | Catherine Turon (b. 1944) is a French astrometrist working in the field of galactic structure and dy |
| 33335 | Guibert | Jean Guibert (b. 1937) is a French astronomer, and the founder and former director of the MAMA (Mach |
| 33402 | Canizares | Claude R. Canizares (b. 1945) is a renowned physicist, the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT, |
| 33480 | Bartolucci | Osvaldo Bartolucci (b. 1952), director of a popular observatory near Turin, is known for his tireles |
| 33518 | Stoetzer | Myrijam Stoetzer (b. 2001) was awarded second place in the 2016 Intel International Science and Engi |
| 33529 | Henden | Arne A. Henden (b. 1950) coauthored Astronomical Photometry in 1982. He is currently director |
| 33550 | Blackburn | Lee Blackburn (b. 1998) was awarded second place in the 2016 Intel International Science and Enginee |
| 33604 | McChesney | Evelyn Grace McChesney (b. 1999) was awarded second place in the 2016 Intel International Science an |
| 33634 | Strickler | Sarah Kay Strickler (b. 1997) was awarded second place in the 2016 Intel International Science and E |
| 33700 | Gluckman | Leia Ruth Gluckman (b. 2004) is a finalist in the 2017 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competit |
| 33701 | Gotthold | Zoe Anne Gotthold (b. 2002) is a finalist in the 2017 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competiti |
| 33746 | Sombart | Jean-Pierre Sombart constructed the 0.4-m Newtonian-Cassegrain telescope at the Pises Observatory an |
| 33747 | Clingan | Roy Clingan (b. 1950) has been a driving force for amateur astronomy in the Arkansas region for many |
| 33800 | Gross | John Gross (b. 1959), an amateur astronomer, operates an automated remote access (via Internet) obse |
| 34708 | Grasset | Olivier Grasset (b. 1968) is a planetary scientist and professor at the University of Nantes' Labora |
| 34738 | Hulbert | Samuel F. Hulbert (b. 1936) is president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His visionary lead |
| 35056 | Cullers | Kent Cullers (b. 1949), the world's first totally blind physicist, devotes his expertise to opening |
| 35087 | von Sydow | Max von Sydow (b. 1929), a Swedish screen actor, played in several films under the directorship of I |
| 35197 | Longmire | Matthew J. Longmire (b. 1958) is an electrical engineer who co-founded a small CCD brand that in 199 |
| 35222 | Delbarrio | Bianca Del Barrio (1943-2006) was the wife of Francesco Gallotti, a member of the Montelupo Astronom |
| 35403 | Latimer | Truett Latimer (b. 1928), devoted husband to Harriet, IMAX film producer and former president of the |
| 36061 | Haldane | British biologist and philosopher of science John Burton Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) worked on the |
| 36445 | Smalley | Kyle Smalley (b. 1961) is an amateur astronomer and team member of the Powell Observatory Near-Earth |
| 36774 | Kuittinen | Risto Kuittinen (b. 1946) was Director General of the Finnish Geodetic Institute during 1998--2011. |
| 37609 | LaVelle | Lewis LaVelle McCoy (b. 1946), civic-minded entrepreneur, is a member of the Arizona Science, Techno |
| 37678 | McClure | Albert Edmund McClure (b. 1938) was an apprentice with Harland and Wolff in 1954 and subsequently an |
| 38070 | Redwine | Kelley K. Redwine (b. 1974), an occupational therapist in Tucson, Arizona, is the wife of Shawn Herm |
| 38203 | Sanner | Glen Sanner is co-author of the two-volume Night Sky Observer's Guide. A member of the Huach |
| 38237 | Roche | Astronomer and mathematician Edouard Roche (1820-1883), of the University of Montpellier, was known |
| 38250 | Tartois | Lucien Tartois (b. 1924) is an amateur astronomer who was secretary of the Société astronomique de F |
| 38268 | Zenkert | Arnold Zenkert (b. 1923) was the director of the planetarium and of the Bruno H. Bürgel Memorial Pla |
| 38269 | Gueymard | Adolphe G. Gueymard (b. 1913), distinguished Louisiana State University alumnus, is a successful bus |
| 38270 | Wettzell | The Geodetic Fundamental Station Wettzell in the Bavarian Forest supplies observational contribution |
| 38454 | Boroson | Todd A. Boroson (b. 1954) studies the spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei. He is the deputy director o |
| 38540 | Stevens | Berton L. Stevens (b. 1951) is an amateur astronomer at the Desert Moon Observatory. Las Cruces, New |
| 38671 | Verdaguer | Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902), born in Folgueroles, Catalonia, is considered one of the greatest poet |
| 39464 | Pöppelmann | Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662-1736) was senior state architect to the court of the Saxonian king |
| 39543 | Aubriet | Claude Aubriet (1651-1742), a French painter of natural history, accompanied botanist Joseph Pitton |
| 39564 | Tarsia | Rodrigo Dias Tarsia (b. 1946), a Brazilian astrophysicist and retired professor at the Federal Unive |
| 39741 | Komm | Rudolf Walter Komm (b. 1957) has contributed substantially to the study of solar activity. His studi |
| 39864 | Poggiali | A member of the NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, Maurizio Poggiali (1965- |
| 39930 | Kalauch | While still a student, Klaus-Dieter Kalauch (b. 1958), amateur astronomer and teacher of astronomy, |
| 40007 | Vieuxtemps | Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881), a Belgian composer and violist, was the prominent exponent of the Fran |
| 40441 | Jungmann | Josef Jungmann (1773-1847) was a Czech poet, publicist and literary historian and author of the C |
| 40684 | Vanhoeck | Luc Vanhoeck (1959-2005) was a Belgian amateur astronomer and pioneer of digital astrophotography. |
| 41206 | Sciannameo | Francesco Sciannameo (b. 1941) is a professor of general surgery and head physician of the general s |
| 41213 | Mimoun | Alain Mimoun (1921-2013) was a French long-distance runner, and marathon champion at the 1956 Olympi |
| 41279 | Trentman | Richard Trentman (b. 1939) is an amateur astronomer and team member of the Powell Observatory Near-E |
| 41450 | Medkeff | Jeff Medkeff (b. 1968) has provided help and distributed free software for robotic operations of obs |
| 41795 | Wiens | Roger Wiens (b. 1960) is deeply involved in space missions. He is the Principal Investigator behind |
| 41943 | Fredrick | Richard Fredrick (b. 1953) is an amateur astronomer and team member of the Powell Observatory Near-E |
| 42191 | Thurmann | The Swiss geologist and naturalist Jules Thurmann (1804-1855), resident in Porrentruy, first explain |
| 42365 | Caligiuri | Michael P. Caligiuri (b. 1954) has been studying the motor pathways of the human brain since 1987 at |
| 42485 | Stendhal | Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783--1842) was a original and complex French writer of the first half |
| 42487 | Ångström | Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874) is a cofounder of astrospectroscopy. He measured |
| 42531 | McKenna | Martin McKenna (b. 1978) was named 2005 Astronomer of the Year by the Irish Federation of Astronomic |
| 42609 | Daubechies | Ingrid Daubechies (b. 1954), a Belgian physicist and mathematician, became professor of applied math |
| 42775 | Bianchini | Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729), a catholic priest born in Verona, was esteemed by the popes, who as |
| 43293 | Banting | Canadian medical doctor Frederick G. Banting (1891-1941) in 1921 led a breakthrough in the treatment |
| 43724 | Pechstein | Max Pechstein (1881-1955) painted strongly colored pictures and was a leading member of the group of |
| 43763 | Russert | Tim Russert (1950-2008), author, Washington bureau chief and political analyst for NBC News, was mod |
| 43767 | Permeke | Constant Permeke (1886-1952), a Belgian painter and sculptor, was a leading figure of Flemish expres |
| 43793 | Mackey | Lance Mackey (b. 1970), with his canine athletes, is the first musher to win North America's two pre |
| 43813 | Kühner | Stefan Kühner (b. 1970), electronics technician, is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer and experienc |
| 43843 | Cleynaerts | Nicolas Cleynaerts (Clenardus, 1495-1542) was a Flemish humanist who promoted tolerance between the |
| 43844 | Rowling | The British author Joanne “Jo” Rowling (b. 1965) is best known for her beloved fantasy series featur |
| 43955 | Fixlmüller | Placidus Fixlmüller (1721-1791), director of the astronomical observatory of the abbey in Kremsmünst |
| 44001 | Jonquet | Pierre Jonquet has observed occultations for the European Asteroidal Occultation Network for more th |
| 44027 | Termain | Patricia Ann Termain Eliason (b. 1952) has contributed greatly to our knowledge of the solar system |
| 44039 | de Sahagún | Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) was a Franciscan missionary who after arriving in Mexico in 1529 r |
| 44103 | Aldana | Fernando Aldana Mayor (b. 1944) played a leading role in developing astrophysics in the Canary Islan |
| 44217 | Whittle | British aeronautical engineer and pilot Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was the inventor of the turbo-jet |
| 44263 | Nansouty | Charles Marie Etienne Champion, comte de Nansouty (1815-1895), was a French general and meteorologis |
| 44574 | Lavoratti | Piero Lavoratti (b. 1935), an Italian amateur astronomer, has contributed to the construction and re |
| 45027 | Cosquer | Henri Cosquer (b. 1950) is a professional diver who in 1985 discovered the cave now named for him ne |
| 45261 | Decoen | Yvette Decoen (b. 1951) is an esteemed physics teacher in the Bellinzona College and a friend of the |
| 45298 | Williamon | Richard Williamon (b. 1946), known for his research on eclipsing stars, has spent his entire career |
| 45700 | Levi-Setti | Riccardo Levi-Setti (b. 1928) is a world-renowned expert on trilobites who has written three edition |
| 46392 | Bertola | Francesco Bertola (b. 1937) is professor of astrophysics and director of the astronomy department at |
| 46513 | Ampzing | Samuel Ampzing (1590-1632) was a Dutch minister, poet and purist. In 1617 he wrote a description of |
| 46514 | Lasswitz | In a poem by German philosopher Kurd Lasswitz (1848-1910) the sweetheart of a student of Argelander |
| 46719 | Plantade | Founder of the Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier, François de Plantade (1670-1741) was involv |
| 46793 | Phinney | Jeffrey L. Phinney's (b. 1957) love of the sky brought him to Palomar Observatory in 1985. After a |
| 46829 | McMahon | Jay W. McMahon (b. 1982) has carried out fundamental research on the dynamics and evolutionary behav |
| 47002 | Harlingten | Caisey Harlingten (b. 1947) is an amateur astronomer interested in various scientific projects. Wit |
| 47044 | Mcpainter | John D. McClusky (1914-1994) was a dedicated artist who portrayed the town of Fredericksburg, Texas, |
| 48047 | Houghten | Christopher Houghten (b. 1963), of Rutland, Vermont, developed a non-computer-based system to allow |
| 48070 | Zizza | Frank Zizza is associate professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona South and past presid |
| 48300 | Kronk | Gary W. Kronk (b. 1956) is an amateur astronomer, programmer-analyst and writer who was so inspired |
| 48681 | Zeilinger | Anton Zeilinger (b. 1945) is a much-honored professor of experimental physics in Innsbruck and Vienn |
| 48801 | Penninger | Josef Penninger (b. 1964), director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Acad |
| 48960 | Clouet | Bernard Clouet (b. 1931) was general secretary of the French Astronomical Society and an observer of |
| 49501 | Basso | Antonella Basso (b. 1972) is a very dear friend of the discoverer. A lawyer by profession, she has |
| 49700 | Mather | U.S. cosmologist John Mather (b. 1946) led the team that constructed the Cosmic Background Explorer |
| 50033 | Perelman | Grigorij (Grisha) Yakovlevich Perelman (b. 1966) made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry |
| 50251 | Iorg | Caroll Iorg (b. 1946) is a most enthusiastic amateur astronomer having been President of the Astron |
| 50412 | Ewen | Harry Ewen (b. 1957) is a Canadian amateur astronomer who devotes his time to astronomical education |
| 51663 | Lovelock | James E. Lovelock (b. 1919) is a chemist, inventor, earth system scientist and author. He is best k |
| 51985 | Kirby | Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is regarded as a major innovator in comic art. His style set the standard for |
| 52226 | Saenredam | Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter and engraver noted for his surpri |
| 52295 | Köppen | Wladimir Köppen (1846-1940) was a Russian-German botanist-climatologist. He developed the most popul |
| 52341 | Ballmann | Helga Ballmann (b. 1954) is the personal assistant of the Director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Inst |
| 52457 | Enquist | Anna Enquist (b. 1945) is a Dutch author and poet, who studied psycho-analysis at Leiden and piano a |
| 52589 | Montviloff | Current president of the Société Astronomique de Montpellier, Nicolas Montviloff was cofounder of th |
| 53237 | Simonson | Walter Simonson (b. 1946) is an American comic book writer and artist. He has written and/or illustr |
| 53250 | Beucher | Jacqueline Beucher (b. 1947) has been a tireless promoter of astronomy for several decades. She has |
| 53253 | Zeiler | Michael Zeiler (b. 1956) is a technical writer at the Environmental Systems Research Institute who h |
| 53256 | Sinitiere | Robert Sinitiere (b. 1950) is an amateur astronomer and pharmacist. His lifelong interest in astron |
| 53468 | Varros | George Varros (b. 1959) is an amateur astronomer who helped NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office popu |
| 54810 | Molleigh | Molleigh Elena Struble (1994-2010) grew up near Yerkes Observatory, where she volunteered for educat |
| 54820 | Svenders | Sven Treitel (b. 1929) and Enders Robinson (b. 1930) co-authored a landmark series of papers that fo |
| 54863 | Gasnault | Olivier Gasnault (b. 1973) specializes in remote sensing and is deeply involved in the exploration o |
| 54902 | Close | Gary Close (1940-1999) worked with the Science Museum of western Virginia for 18 years, lastly as th |
| 54963 | Sotin | Christophe Sotin (b. 1958) is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and direc |
| 55320 | Busler | William J. Busler (b. 1944) has had a long and distinguished career as a researcher and teacher in t |
| 55428 | Cappellaro | Enrico Cappellaro (b. 1957) is chief astronomer of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics a |
| 55543 | Nemeghaire | Jean Nemeghaire (b. 1949) has been an assistant at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium sin |
| 55561 | Madenberg | Janet A. Stevens (née Madenberg, b. 1950) is an amateur astronomer who started a loaner telescope pr |
| 57901 | Hitchens | Christopher E. Hitchens (b. 1949), an intellectual of broad interests who lists “disputation” among |
| 58214 | Amorim | Regina Helena Caldas de Amorim (b. 1948) is a Brazilian neuro-pediatrician at Belo Horizonte (Minas |
| 58364 | Feierberg | As a graduate student at the University of Arizona Michael Feierberg (b. 1955) was involved in the e |
| 58460 | Le Mouélic | Stephane Le Mouélic (b. 1972) is a research engineer at the University of Nantes, who specializes in |
| 58499 | Stüber | Eberhard Stüber (b. 1927) is director of the natural science museum “Haus der Natur” in Salzburg. U |
| 58535 | Pattillo | Leonard Pattillo (b. 1926), a founding member and former officer of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club, ha |
| 58579 | Ehrenberg | Eleonora Gayerová of Ehrenberg (1832-1912) was the first representative of the role of Mařenka in Sm |
| 58607 | Wenzel | Wolfgang Wenzel (b. 1929), astronomer at the Sonneberg Observatory, Thuringia, was among the first t |
| 58672 | Remigio | Scarfi Remigio, a geologist, mathematics teacher and amateur astronomer, has been an active promoter |
| 58896 | Schlosser | Wolfhard Schlosser (b. 1940) was a professor at Bochum University from 1969 until his retirement in |
| 59232 | Sfiligoi | Vincenzo Sfiligoi (b. 1932), a public accountant in the Italian province of Gorizia until 1990, also |
| 59388 | Monod | Jacques Monod (1910-1976) was a French biologist who received the Nobel prize in 1965 for his work o |
| 59390 | Habermas | German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) is a member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Resea |
| 59793 | Clapiès | French mathematician and cartographer Jean de Clapiès (1670-1740) was involved with Plantade in the |
| 60183 | Falcone | Giovanni Falcone (1939-1992) was an Italian magistrate who fought against organized crime. |
| 60622 | Pritchet | Christopher J. Pritchet (b. 1950) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victo |
| 61195 | Martinoli | Piero Martinoli (b. 1941) is professor of physics and leader of the superconductivity research group |
| 61342 | Lovejoy | Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy is a visual comet observer who also pioneered comet disc |
| 61401 | Schiff | In 1960 Leonard Schiff (1915-1971) proposed the use of orbiting gyroscopes to check some of the effe |
| 61912 | Storrs | Alex Storrs (b. 1960) is an astronomer and professor at Towson State University. He is known for de |
| 61913 | Lanning | Howard Lanning (1946-2007) validated astronomical software and assisted astronomers at Mount Wilson, |
| 62071 | Voegtli | Christian Voegtli (b. 1959) studied theoretical physics in Basel. For many years he has been interes |
| 63068 | Moraes | Portuguese writer Wenceslau de Moraes (1854-1929) is known for introducing the culture of Tokushima |
| 63528 | Kocherhans | Joseph G. Kocherhans (b. 1929) participated extensively in the recovery of Badlands Observatory afte |
| 65159 | Sprowls | Marlene Sprowls Durig has supported the research and helped edit the publications of her husband (an |
| 65241 | Seeley | Bob Seeley (b. 1929) is an accomplished Detroit pianist, playing music from Gershwin and Debussy to |
| 65657 | Hube | At the University of Alberta, Douglas P. Hube (b. 1941) has specialized in the study of short-perio |
| 65672 | Merrick | In spite of facing the challenge of a rare form of leukemia, Dawson Tate Merrick (1999-2009) excelle |
| 65885 | Lubenow | Alexander (Andy) F. Lubenow (b. 1956), the program coordinator at the Space Telescope Science Instit |
| 66479 | Healy | David Healy (b. 1936) established Junk Bond Observatory in Arizona primarily for visual work and rec |
| 66661 | Wallin | John F. Wallin (b. 1961) is an astrophysicist at George Mason University, Virginia. He is an educat |
| 66843 | Pulido | Alfonso Pulido (b. 1945) developed the free computer program Elbrus used by amateur and professional |
| 66939 | Franscini | Stefano Franscini (1796-1857), a member of the Ticino canton government in Switzerland, helped organ |
| 67235 | Fairbank | William Martin Fairbank (1917-1989), professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, earned hi |
| 68410 | Nichols | Nichelle Nichols (b. 1936) is best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek ser |
| 68779 | Schöninger | Schöninger is the name used for Klet mountain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. App |
| 69275 | Wiesenthal | Simon Wiesenthal (b. 1908) survived the Nazi camps of World War II. After the war, he courageously g |
| 69870 | Fizeau | French physicist Hyppolite Fizeau (1819-1896) improved photographic processes. In a laboratory expe |
| 70446 | Pugh | U.S. physicist George Pugh (b. 1926) was the first to propose, in 1959, a test of general relativity |
| 70449 | Gruebel | Robert W. Gruebel (1924-2016) was a Professor of Physics at Stephen F. Austin State University, and |
| 70714 | Rizk | Bashar Rizk (b. 1959) is the Instrument Scientist for the OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS). He was al |
| 70716 | Mehall | Greg Mehall (b. 1963) is Project Engineer for the Thermal Emission Spectrometer flying on the OSIRIS |
| 70728 | Gal-Edd | Jonathan Gal-Edd (b. 1954) is the Ground Systems Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return M |
| 70737 | Stenflo | After a lectureship at Lund University, Jan Olof Stenflo (b. 1942) served as director of the Institu |
| 70781 | Donnelly | Michael Donnelly (b. 1961) is the Project Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. |
| 70850 | Schur | Chris (b. 1958) and Dawn Schur (b. 1960) are amateur astronomers and amateur paleontologists living |
| 71539 | VanZandt | Rollin P. VanZandt (1911-1994), known as “Van” to most, was very active in the Astronomical League a |
| 71556 | Page | Gary L. Page (b. 1947) is a physicist and astrophysicist at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Vi |
| 71885 | Denning | British amateur astronomer William Frederick Denning (1848-1931) was renowned for his visual study o |
| 72042 | Dequeiroz | José-Fernando De Queiroz (b. 1954) is an amateur astronomer involved in observing minor planets. He |
| 72596 | Zilkha | Michael (b. 1954) and Nina (b. 1954) Zilkha are noted Houston, Texas, entrepreneurs and philanthropi |
| 72804 | Caldentey | Maria-Dolors Caldentey Rius (b. 1956) is a founding member of the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallor |
| 72819 | Brunet | Following the Paris Obsevatory's 1974 decision to establish an observing station near Saint-Véran, J |
| 72876 | Vauriot | Pierre Vauriot (1926-1984) was a professor of mathematics, an observer of variable stars and a popul |
| 73520 | Boslough | Mark Boslough (b. 1955) is a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories. He has computed the most det |
| 73533 | Alonso | Fernando Alonso (b. 1981) was born in Oviedo, Spain. He is the country's most successful Formula One |
| 73640 | Biermann | Ludwig Biermann (1907-1986) was the first director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik. He m |
| 73703 | Billings | Gary W. Billings is a geophysicist and amateur astronomer in Calgary, Alberta. He discovered five m |
| 73704 | Hladiuk | Donald W. Hladiuk (b. 1957) is a professional geologist in Calgary, Alberta. For over 20 years, he |
| 74439 | Brenden | Craig Brenden (b. 1946) is a teacher of chemistry and an amateur astronomer. A co-founder of the Ba |
| 74509 | Gillett | Frederick C. Gillett (1937-2001), a pioneer in infrared astronomy, was the discoverer of the infrare |
| 74818 | Iten | Marco Iten (b. 1950) is a goldsmith and a skilled model train hobbyist, living in Gordola, Switzerla |
| 74824 | Tarter | Jill C. Tarter (b. 1944) searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence at the SETI Institute using rad |
| 75063 | Koestler | Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a journalist and writer. He wrote “The Sleepwalkers: A History of M |
| 75562 | Wilkening | Laurel Wilkening (b. 1944) is a retired meteoriticist who served on numerous commissions related to |
| 75564 | Audubon | John James Audubon (1785-1851) was the pre-eminent wildlife artist in the U.S. for half a century. |
| 75829 | Alyea | Gerald “Gerry” Alyea (1932-2010) was a founder of the Warren Astronomical Society in Michigan. He t |
| 76272 | De Jong | At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Eric De Jong (b. 1946) has focused on the scientific visualizatio |
| 77136 | Mendillo | Michael Mendillo (b. 1944), professor of astronomy and electrical engineering at Boston University, |
| 77185 | Cherryh | C. J. Cherryh (b. 1942), of Spokane, Washington, is the visionary author of more than 40 novels and |
| 77441 | Jouve | Jacques Jouve (b. 1929) was involved in the construction of the Paris Observatory's station near Sai |
| 77856 | Noblitt | Niles Noblitt (b. 1951) is a member of the board of trustees of Rose-Hulman Institute and loyal supp |
| 77971 | Donnolo | Shabbathai Donnolo (913-982) was an Italian physician, medical author and astrologer/astronomer. Do |
| 78071 | Vicent | Born in the city of Segorbe, Francesch Vicent (1450-1512) wrote the first treatise on modern chess, |
| 78392 | Dellinger | Joseph A. Dellinger (b. 1961) is a research geophysicist who has made significant and award-winning |
| 78393 | Dillon | William G. Dillon (b. 1957) is the founder of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club's Asteroid Team, which ha |
| 78394 | Garossino | Paul G. A. Garossino (b. 1953), husband of Cathy, father of Tony and Julia, is a Canadian geophysici |
| 78429 | Baschek | Bodo Baschek (b. 1935) is professor emeritus of the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the Ru |
| 78431 | Kemble | Lucian J. Kemble (1922-1999) was a Franciscan Father ordained in 1953. Multi-talented, he was an avi |
| 78434 | Dyer | Alan Dyer (b. 1953) is program producer at the Calgary Science Centre and one of Canada's best-known |
| 79144 | Cervantes | Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a Spanish novelist best known for Don Quijote (1605). In |
| 79410 | Wallerius | Swedish chemist and mineralogist Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785) was the first holder (from 1 |
| 79647 | Ballack | Michael Ballack (b. 1976) is a German professional footballer. Ballack began his career as a youth f |
| 79912 | Terrell | Dirk Terrell (b. 1965) is a stellar astrophysicist, author and astronomical artist, specializing in |
| 80135 | Zanzanini | Giuseppe Zan Zanini (1794-1869) lived in Val Bavona and Val Foiòi in Ticino, Switzerland. His histo |
| 80675 | Kwentus | Peter (1923-1985) and Virginia “Ginger” (1929-2008) Kwentus were members and devoted supporters of t |
| 81915 | Hartwick | F. David A. Hartwick (b. 1941) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria |
| 82232 | Heuberger | Robert Heuberger (b. 1922) and his wife Ruth (b. 1924), entrepreneurs in Winterthur, are esteemed fr |
| 82896 | Vaubaillon | Jeremie Vaubaillon (b. 1976) is a French astronomer working at IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris. His ma |
| 82926 | Jacquey | Anne-Marie Jacquey, treasurer of the Société Astronomique de Montpellier for more than 15 years, is |
| 83956 | Panuzzo | Pasquale Panuzzo (b. 1972) is an Italian astronomer working for the development of the SPIRE instrum |
| 84224 | Kyte | Frank Kyte (b. 1949) studies the meteoritic component of distal impact deposits. He discovered the |
| 84225 | Verish | Geologist Robert S. Verish (b. 1947), an engineering contractor for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, i |
| 85004 | Crombie | M. Katherine Crombie (b. 1970) is a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team with responsibility for da |
| 85014 | Sutter | Brian Sutter (b. 1961) is an engineer at Lockheed Martin Company and the Mission Designer for the OS |
| 85015 | Gaskell | Robert Gaskell (b. 1945) is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. He is known for |
| 85121 | Loehde | Franklin C. Loehde (b. 1936) is a retired science educator in Edmonton. He was involved in successfu |
| 85185 | Lederman | Leon Max Lederman (b. 1922) is an American particle physicist and 1988 Physics Nobel Laureate. In 1 |
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| 85511 | Celnik | Werner E. Celnik (b. 1953) studied astrophysics and is a longtime German amateur astronomer. He ser |
| 85512 | Rieugnie | Yvon (b. 1932), Marc (b. 1966) and Delphine (b. 1960) Rieugnie helped many French amateur astronomer |
| 85559 | Villecroze | The discoverer is thankful for having completed her undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy, g |
| 85773 | Gutbezahl | Jennifer Gutbezahl (b. 1963) was deeply involved in the evaluation of the NASA Space Science Mission |
| 85878 | Guzik | T. Gregory Guzik (b. 1952), a Professor at Louisiana State University, researched cosmic rays while |
| 89664 | Pignata | Giuliano Pignata (b. 1972), a member of the Asiago-DLR Asteroid Survey, contributes in a decisive wa |
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| 89956 | Leibacher | John W. Leibacher (b. 1941) is the principal investigator of the Global Oscillation Network Group (G |
| 90138 | Diehl | Jacqueline (Jackie) Diehl (b. 1963), the first chair of the White Sands Star Party, has promoted ast |
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| 90288 | Dalleave | Sergio Dalle Ave (b. 1955), technician and night assistant at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory s |
| 90397 | Rasch | Charlie Rasch (1937-2011) was a well-known Jazz/Ragtime pianist in the Detroit area of Michigan. He |
| 90429 | Wetmore | Shirley R. Wetmore ( b. 1947) was the senior curator at the University of Arizona Mineral Museum. I |
| 90446 | Truesdell | Robert Truesdell (b. 1967) is a Tucson businessman and gifted amateur paleontologist specializing in |
| 90447 | Emans | Mike Emans (b. 1944) is a Seattle-area retired computer operations manager formerly with the Departm |
| 90472 | Mahabal | Ashish Mahabal (b. 1970) is a scientist at the California Institute of Technology. He has participa |
| 90479 | Donalek | Ciro Donalek (b. 1973) is a computational scientist who has applied machine learning to the analysis |
| 90480 | Ulrich | Carl Ulrich (b. 1925) is a fossil preparator, known for his work on the fossils of the Green River F |
| 90820 | McCann | Jeff McCann (b. 1962) was the AMOS Commander during the early years of the twenty-first century. He |
| 90918 | Jasinski | Christian Jasinski (b. 1963) was the first webmaster of the Association des Utilisateurs de Détecteu |
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| 91422 | Giraudon | Edmond Giraudon (b. 1924), a professor in mechanical engineering and a popularizer of astronomy, ini |
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| 92297 | Monrad | Ingrid “Twink” Monrad (b. 1945) is a meteorite hunter in Tucson, Arizona. With Jim Kriegh and John |
| 92300 | Hagelin | Jerry Hagelin (b. 1938) is well known throughout the state of Arizona for his selfless work with chi |
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| 92578 | Benecchi | Robert J. Benecchi (b. 1966), husband of the discoverer, is a hardware design engineer who has contr |
| 92585 | Fumagalli | Francesco Fumagalli (b. 1958) is an Italian telescope maker and amateur astronomer who observes vari |
| 92891 | Bless | Robert C. Bless (b. 1927) served on the astronomy faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison |
| 93102 | Leroy | Physical sciences teacher and amateur astronomer Valère Leroy (b. 1961) has also been an active memb |
| 95219 | Borgman | Machinist, carpenter, electrician, plumber, programmer, amateur astronomer and leader, Dennis Borgma |
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| 95771 | Lachat | Damien Lachat (b. 1977) is an electronics engineer who works at the Swiss Federal Office of Metrolog |
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| 95982 | Beish | Jeff Beish (b. 1940) has been an avid amateur astronomer since the 1970s, serving in the Mars Sectio |
| 96178 | Rochambeau | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), was commander of the French Exped |
| 96200 | Oschin | Samuel Oschin (1914-2003) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. The 48-inch Oschin Schmi |
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| 96327 | Ullmann | Liv Ullmann (b. 1938), Norwegian screen actress and movie director, made the groundbreaking picture |
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| 99201 | Sattler | Birgit I. Sattler (b. 1969) is a member of the department of limnology and zoology at the University |
| 99262 | Bleustein | Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906-1996) established the Foundation of the Vocation in 1960. The found |
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| 120040 | Pagliarini | Silvano Pagliarini (b. 1950) built the public amateur observatory “Padre Angelo Secchi” in Castelnov |
| 120074 | Bass | Harry Bass (b. 1935) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1960. In 1977, |
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| 121756 | Sotomejias | Vanessa Soto-Mejias (b. 1982) contributed to the NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission as R |
| 121865 | Dauvergne | Jean Luc Dauvergne (b. 1976) is a French scientific journalist working at the astronomical magazine |
| 124075 | Ketelsen | Optician Dean Ketelsen (b. 1953), senior research specialist at the University of Arizona's Steward |
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| 128925 | Conwell | James Conwell (b. 1952) has been a professor at Eastern Illinois University since 1985, and the dire |
| 129099 | Spoelhof | William Spoelhof (b. 1909) served as president of Calvin College from 1951 to 1976. Among his achie |
| 129234 | Silly | Didier Silly (b. 1950), a long-time colleague and friend of the discoverer, recently started a busin |
| 129564 | Christy | James Walter Christy (b. 1938), for many years on the staff of the U.S. Naval Observatory, is the di |
| 130078 | Taschner | Rudolf Taschner (b. 1953), professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna, was named |
| 131186 | Pauluckas | Paul Luckas (b. 1962) has shown great dedication in creating and maintaining a fully automated obser |
| 131245 | Bakich | As senior editor of Astronomy, Michael E. Bakich (b. 1953) serves as a science popularizer. |
| 132445 | Gaertner | Christian Gaertner (1705-1782), a craftsman and merchant in Tolkewitz, Germany, was an amateur astro |
| 132718 | Kemény | Hungarian-born U.S. mathematician John George Kemény (1926-1992) was best known for co-developing th |
| 132719 | Lambey | Bernard Lambey (b. 1934), an animator and a popularizer of astronomy, is a cofounder of the Astronom |
| 132798 | Kürti | Stefan Kürti (b. 1960) is a Slovakian amateur astronomer with a focus on minor planets. Among his d |
| 132820 | Miskotte | Koen Miskotte (b. 1962) is a Dutch confectioner and amateur astronomer whose main interests lie in m |
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| 133009 | Watters | Shannon P. Watters (b. 1972) is an American astronomer and a significant contributor to the Sloan Di |
| 133528 | Ceragioli | Roger Ceragioli (b. 1959) is senior optician at the University of Arizona's Steward Mirror Laborator |
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| 134135 | Steigerwald | William Steigerwald (b. 1967) worked on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission as a science w |
| 134150 | Bralower | Harrison L. Bralower (b. 1988) worked as a student engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno |
| 134244 | De Young | Mike De Young (b. 1954) has taught at the Rehoboth Christian School since 1977. He was selected in |
| 135069 | Gagnereau | Eric Gagnereau (b. 1955), an animator and a popularizer of astronomy, specializes in building both m |
| 135268 | Haigneré | Claudie (b. 1957) and Jean-Pierre Haigneré (b. 1948) are both members of the European Space Agency c |
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| 135979 | Allam | Sahar Allam (b. 1964) is an Egyptian astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, b |
| 136367 | Gierlinger | Richard Gierlinger (b. 1967) is an Austrian amateur astronomer and telescope builder, who has discov |
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| 140980 | Blanton | Michael Blanton (b. 1973) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Surve |
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| 142562 | Graetz | The German Officer Paul Graetz (1875-1968) was the first person to cross southern Africa by automobi |
| 142752 | Boroski | William Boroski (b. 1960) is an active participant in the American astronomical community and a cont |
| 142753 | Briegel | Charlie Briegel (b. 1949) is an American computer scientist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital S |
| 142754 | Brunner | Robert Brunner (b. 1968) is an American astrophysicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Su |
| 142755 | Castander | Francisco J. Castander (b. 1968) is a Spanish astronomer and a builder of the Sloan Digital Sky Surv |
| 142757 | Collinge | Matthew Collinge (b. 1979) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Surv |
| 142758 | Connolly | Andy Connolly (b. 1966) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, |
| 142759 | Covey | Kevin Covey (b. 1977) is an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory and a contributor to the Sloan |
| 142760 | Csabai | Istvan Csabai (b. 1965) is a Hungarian physicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, |
| 142822 | Czarapata | Paul Czarapata (b. 1947) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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| 145562 | Zurbriggen | Bernard Zurbriggen (b. 1943) is an emeritus professor of natural science. A promoter of astronomy i |
| 147693 | Piccioni | Giuseppe Piccioni (b. 1965), known for work on infrared imaging sensors, has consulted for several I |
| 148604 | Shobbrook | John Shobbrook (b. 1948) is a friend and loyal supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observatory, wher |
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| 149244 | Kriegh | James D. Kriegh (1928-2007) was a civil engineering professor at the University of Arizona and the f |
| 149968 | Trondal | Odd Trondal (b. 1951), a member of the Norwegian Astronomical Society since 1968, was elected a Memb |
| 150035 | Williamson | Bruce Williamson (b. 1953) has been the senior technician and precision machinist operating and main |
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| 152319 | Pynchon | Thomas R. Pynchon, Jr. (b. 1937) is an American novelist. He was the winner of the 1974 U.S. Nation |
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| 154141 | Kertész | André Kertész (1894-1985) was a photographer known for his ground-breaking contributions to photogra |
| 154378 | Hennessy | Gregory Hennessy (b. 1963) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Surv |
| 154660 | Kavelaars | John J. Kavelaars (b. 1966) is an associate research officer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysi |
| 154938 | Besserman | Lawrence Besserman (b. 1945) is a specialist in medieval and early modern periods of English Literat |
| 155083 | Banneker | Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was a freeborn African-American farmer, clockmaker, writer and scienti |
| 155948 | Maquet | Lucie Maquet (b. 1985) studies cometary non-gravitational forces at IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris. Sh |
| 156542 | Hogg | David W. Hogg (b. 1970) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, |
| 156631 | Margitan | In multiple managerial roles and as an atmospheric research scientist, James Margitan (b. 1951) set |
| 156939 | Odegard | John D. Odegard (1941-1998), born in Minot, North Dakota, was an aviation visionary who started the |
| 156990 | Claerbout | Jon Claerbout (b. 1938) is a prolific contributor to the theory and art of exploration seismology. |
| 157194 | Saddlemyer | Leslie K. Saddlemyer (b. 1959) is a systems engineer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Nati |
| 157258 | Leach | Sidney (“Sid”) Leach (b. 1951) and Gloria Leach (b. 1958) have spread their enthusiasm for astronomy |
| 157494 | Durham | Steve Durham (b. 1951) and his wife Marge (b. 1948) have worked tirelessly to promote astronomy to p |
| 157541 | Wachter | Manfred Wachter (1938-2000) was a German telescope maker. He founded his company in 1963 in Stuttgar |
| 157640 | Baumeler | Martin Baumeler (b. 1936) is a skilled artisan who devised techniques for installing the telescope a |
| 157747 | Mandryka | Nikita Mandryka (b. 1940), a native of Bizerte, Tunisia, studied in France, where he became a well-k |
| 158589 | Snodgrass | Colin Snodgrass (b. 1981) is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory. His work centers o |
| 158623 | Perali | Mirella Perali (b. 1931), an amateur astronomer from an early age, developed a keen interest in sola |
| 158913 | Kreider | Christian Kreider (b. 1957) is an active French amateur astronomer. |
| 159409 | Ratte | Hyacinthe de Ratte (1722-1805) was barely twenty years old when he was named general secretary of th |
| 159826 | Knapp | Gillian (Jill) Knapp (b. 1944) is an Anglo-American astronomer and a Founding Mother of the Sloan Di |
| 161092 | Zsigmond | Vilmos Zsigmond (b. 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American cinematographer who chronic |
| 161207 | Lidz | Adam Lidz (b. 1973) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, bes |
| 161215 | Loveday | Jonathan Loveday (b. 1963) is a British astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 161315 | de Shalit | Amos de Shalit (1926-1969) was an Israeli nuclear physicist who made important contributions to the |
| 161545 | Ferrando | Rafael Ferrando (b. 1966) founded Pla D'Arguines Observatory in Segorbe, Valencia, in 1996. A very |
| 161546 | Schneeweis | Scott Schneeweis (b. 1962), a U.S. Navy Lt. Commander currently stationed at Fr. Huachuca, Arizona, |
| 162166 | Mantsch | Paul Mantsch (b. 1941) is an American particle and astro-particle physicist and one of the builders |
| 162466 | Margon | Bruce Margon (b. 1948) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. |
| 162937 | Prêtre | Heart surgeon René Prêtre (b. 1957), voted Swiss of the Year in 2009, treats children in both Switze |
| 163624 | Moorthy | Bhasker Moorthy (b. 1978) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Surve |
| 163625 | Munn | Jeff Munn (b. 1961) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. |
| 163640 | Newberg | Heidi Jo Newberg (b. 1965) is an American astronomer who wrote Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) softw |
| 163641 | Nichol | Robert Nichol (b. 1966) is an British observational cosmologist and a long-term contributor to the S |
| 164587 | Taesch | Paul Taesch (b. 1927) initiated the discoverer into observing the night sky when she was a teenager. |
| 164791 | Nicinski | Tom Nicinski (b. 1960) is an American software engineer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky S |
| 164792 | Owen | Russell Owen (b. 1959) is an American engineer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, be |
| 165067 | Pauls | A. Georg Pauls (b. 1958) is an engineer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known as the SDSS Ca |
| 165192 | Neugent | Kathryn F. Neugent (b. 1987), research assistant at Lowell Observatory and computer scientist at the |
| 165612 | Stackpole | Michael Stackpole (b. 1957), currently living in Arizona, is a prolific and popular science fiction |
| 166745 | Pindor | Bartosz Pindor (b. 1975) is an Canadian astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 166749 | Sesar | Branimir Sesar (b. 1980) is a Croatian-American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sk |
| 166944 | Seton | Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was an educator, spiritual leader and saint. She was the fou |
| 167852 | Maturana | Angelica Maturana (b. 1971) is a dear friend of the first discoverer. Born in Santiago, she studied |
| 167875 | Kromminga | Albion Kromminga (b. 1933) was a physics professor at Calvin College from 1965 until retiring in 199 |
| 168948 | Silvestri | Nicole Silvestri (b. 1973) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Surv |
| 169299 | Sirko | Edwin Sirko (b. 1978) is a former American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Sur |
| 170006 | Stoughton | Chris Stoughton (b. 1959) is an American astronomer and a builder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, k |
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| 213637 | Lemarchal | Pop-rock singer Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal (1983-2007) won the French version of Star Academy TV sh |
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| 216624 | Kaufer | German astronomer Andreas Kaufer (b. 1968) is director of operations at the European Southern Observ |
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| 233653 | Rether | Romanian-born Hagen Rether (b. 1969) is a well-known cabaret artist in Germany, where he studied mus |
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| 241090 | Nemet | Timothy Nemet (b. 1996) displayed unrivalled enthusiasm in the pursuit of astronomical knowledge, fo |
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| 245417 | Rostand | Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a French poet and playwright. His “Cyrano de Bergerac” is one of the |
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| 246238 | Crampton | David Crampton (b. 1942) has overseen the development of exceptionally efficient, multiplexed spectr |
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| 249520 | Luppino | Gerard A. Luppino (1959-2016) was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, where he pioneered the |
| 249521 | Truth | Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) was an American abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. She d |
| 249523 | Friedan | Betty Friedan (1921-2006) was an author and social activist who wrote The Feminine Mystique, |
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| 259344 | Paré | Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) was a French surgeon and one of the fathers of modern surgery. He was the |
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| 269762 | Nocentini | Francesca Nocentini (b. 1975) is a friend of the discoverer. With a strong interest in music and bo |
| 270472 | Csörgei | Tibor Csörgei (b. 1972) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and a keen observer of meteors, comets and as |
| 271235 | Bellay | Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) was a French poet and a member of the Pleiade, a group of poets co-cr |
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| 279397 | Dombeck | Thomas W. Dombeck (1945-2016) received his Physics PhD from Northwestern University. He displayed h |
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| 293383 | Maigret | Jules Maigret, French police detective and Commissaire a la Brigade Criminelle de Paris, was a chara |
| 293878 | Tapping | Kenneth Tapping (b. 1945), a solar physicist at the NRC-Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Pe |
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| 302542 | Tilmann | Tilmann Arne Meyer (b. 2006) is the son of the discoverer. |
| 303265 | Littmann | Mark Littmann (b. 1939) is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Tennessee, w |
| 303710 | Velpeau | Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau (1795-1867) was a French anatomist and surgeon. His main achieveme |
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| 306019 | Duren | Riley Duren (b. 1968) is an American systems engineer who studies climate change. He served as the C |
| 306128 | Pipher | Judith Pipher (b. 1940) is an astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Rochester. |
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| 315012 | Hutchings | John Barrie Hutchings (b. 1941) uses observations from the X-ray to the radio regimes to probe intri |
| 315088 | Daniels | Steven W. Daniels (b. 1959) is a Physics Professor and Department Chair at Eastern Illinois Universi |
| 315174 | Sellek | Douglas J. Sellek (1945-1996) was a middle-school science teacher and an advocate of the sciences. |
| 315186 | Schade | Since 2001, David Joseph Schade (b. 1953) has served as leader for the NRC-Canadian Astronomy Data C |
| 315218 | La Boétie | Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) was a French writer and a founder of modern political philosophy. |
| 315493 | Zimin | Dmitry Borisovich Zimin (b. 1933) is a Russian scientist and inventor in the field of electronics an |
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| 318682 | Carpaccio | Vittore Carpaccio (1465-1525) was a Venetian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Genti |
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| 320790 | Anestin | Victor Anestin (1875-1918) was a Romanian journalist who popularized astronomy and sciences. He wro |
| 321485 | Cross | Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printma |
| 325455 | Della Valle | Massimo Della Valle (b. 1957) is an Italian astronomer who has been Director of the Capodimonte obse |
| 325973 | Cardinal | Robert Damian Cardinal (b. 1969) is a research associate at the University of Calgary, a prolific ob |
| 328477 | Eckstein | Hartmut Eckstein (b. 1954) is an experienced astrophotographer at the Starkenburg Observatory, also |
| 329935 | Prévôt | Jean Prévôt (1585-1631) was born in Delémont in Swiss Jura, like the discoverer. Prévôt became a fa |
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