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<html> <head> <title>International Astronomical Union</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> International Astronomical Union ORGANIZATION Founded 1919 to "promote and safeguard the science of astronomy." Official Website: <a href="http://www.iau.org/">http://www.iau.org/</a> Founding Date: 1919<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000141366/">Walter S. Adams</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1956</tt></td> <td>Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/203/000167699/">Adriaan Blaauw</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-2010</tt></td> <td>Evolving galaxies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000167730/">Bart Jan Bok</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1983</tt></td> <td>Bok globules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000167783/">John G. Bolton</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1993</tt></td> <td>First Director of Parkes Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000168033/">Dirk Brouwer</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1966</tt></td> <td>Celestial mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000168135/">R. Hanbury Brown</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-2002</tt></td> <td>Optical intensity interferometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000237975/">Jocelyn Bell Burnell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/">William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td>Stellar Motions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/">Thomas George Cowling</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1990</tt></td> <td>Cowling model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/209/000168702/">Willem de Sitter</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1934</tt></td> <td>Expanding space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000168703/">Henri Alexandre Deslandres</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1948</tt></td> <td>Spectroheliograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000168815/">Frank W. Dyson</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1939</tt></td> <td>Six pips on the BBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/">Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000169106/">Alfred Fowler</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1940</tt></td> <td>Celestial spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/620/000204008/">Guillermo Haro</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1988</tt></td> <td>Herbig-Haro objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000169682/">Otto Heckmann</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1983</tt></td> <td>Investigated cosmic expansion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/657/000170147/">Jacobus C. Kapteyn</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1851</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td>Star streaming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000170500/">Robert P. Kraft</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-2015</tt></td> <td>Lick Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/140/000170627/">Armin O. Leuschner</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1953</tt></td> <td>Astronomer at Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000170661/">Bertil Lindblad</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1965</tt></td> <td>Spiral structure of the galaxy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000206469/">Bernard Lovell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-2012</tt></td> <td>Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000170719/">Willem J. Luyten</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1994</tt></td> <td>Stellar mortician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000170721/">Bernard Lyot</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1952</tt></td> <td>Sandstorms on Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000171327/">E. Arthur Milne</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1950</tt></td> <td>Kinematic relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000171398/">Marcel Minnaert</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1970</tt></td> <td>Solar spectrophotometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000173291/">Charlotte E. Moore</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1990</tt></td> <td>Technetium in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000104032/">Jan Hendrik Oort</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1992</tt></td> <td>Theory of the origin of comets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000171775/">Bohdan Paczynski</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-2007</tt></td> <td>Gravitational microlensing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000099638/">Arno Penzias</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Detected primordial radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000165716/">Vera Rubin</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Structure of galaxies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000022258/">Carl Sagan</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1996</tt></td> <td>Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/">Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-2012</tt></td> <td>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000172889/">Frank Schlesinger</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1943</tt></td> <td>Stellar parallaxes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000276154/">Brian P. Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000168229/">Martin Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1997</tt></td> <td>Structure and Evolution of the Stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000172988/">Frederick Hanley Seares</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1964</tt></td> <td>Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000170070/">Harold Spencer Jones</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1960</tt></td> <td>10th Royal Astronomer of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/">Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1987</tt></td> <td>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000173621/">Otto Struve</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1963</tt></td> <td>Hydrogen in the interstellar medium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000174186/">Herbert Hall Turner</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td>Stellar positions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000206437/">Robert Watson-Watt</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1973</tt></td> <td>Radar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000099648/">Steven Weinberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000099641/">Robert Woodrow Wilson</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Detected primordial radiation</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=104062" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/343/000003334/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/343/3334/s3334.jpg" width=128> Pittsburgh Environmental Organizations</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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