Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

In 2007, Springer published a Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.

About 360 mathematicians in our archive have entries in this.

Click on the name for the MacTutor biography and on BEA for the Encyclopedia entry.
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Abraham bar HiyyaBEA
Abu'l-WafaBEA
Adams, JohnBEA
AdelardBEA
Airy, GeorgeBEA
Al-BannaBEA
Al-BattaniBEA
Al-BiruniBEA
Al-HaythamBEA
Al-KashiBEA
Al-KhujandiBEA
Al-KhwarizmiBEA
Al-KindiBEA
Al-QuhiBEA
Al-MaghribiBEA
Al-NasawiBEA
Al-NayriziBEA
Al-SamarqandiBEA
Al-SamawalBEA
Al-SijziBEA
Al-Tusi, NasirBEA
Al-Tusi, SharafBEA
Al-UmawiBEA
Al-ZarqaliBEA
AlbertusBEA
AlcuinBEA
Alfvén, HannesBEA
Ambartsumian, VictorBEA
AnaxagorasBEA
AnaximanderBEA
Andoyer, HenriBEA
Apianus, PetrusBEA
ApolloniusBEA
Arago, FrançoisBEA
ArchimedesBEA
Archytas, ArchytasBEA
Aristarchus, AristarchusBEA
Aristotle, AristotleBEA
Aryabhata IBEA
Aryabhata IIBEA
Autolycus, AutolycusBEA
Auzout, AdrienBEA
Avicenna, AvicennaBEA
B
Bacon, RogerBEA
Ball, RobertBEA
Balmer, JohannBEA
Banachiewicz, TadeuszBEA
Banneker, BenjaminBEA
Banu brothersBEA
Barbier, Joseph-ÉmileBEA
Barozzi, FrancescoBEA
Bartholin, ErasmusBEA
Bates, DavidBEA
Bernoulli, DanielBEA
Bernoulli, JacobBEA
Bernoulli, Johann (III)BEA
Bessel, WilhelmBEA
Bethe, HansBEA
Bhaskara IBEA
Bhaskara IIBEA
Bigourdan, GuillaumeBEA
Billy, JacquesBEA
Biot, Jean-BaptisteBEA
Birkhoff, GeorgeBEA
Bjerknes, VilhelmBEA
Bliss, NathanielBEA
Bohr, NielsBEA
Borda, Jean-CharlesBEA
Borelli, GiovanniBEA
Boscovich, RuggeroBEA
Bouguer, PierreBEA
Boulliau, IsmaelBEA
Bour, EdmondBEA
Bouvard, AlexisBEA
Bowditch, NathanielBEA
Bradley, JamesBEA
Bradwardine, ThomasBEA
Brahe, TychoBEA
BrahmaguptaBEA
Brinkley, JohnBEA
Brown, ErnestBEA
Brück, HermannBEA
Bruno, GiordanoBEA
Bürgi, JostBEA
Byrd, MaryBEA
C
Callippus, CallippusBEA
Campanus, JohannesBEA
Camus, Charles-ÉtienneBEA
Cannon, AnnieBEA
Cassini de ThuryBEA
Cassini, DominiqueBEA
Cassini, GiovanniBEA
Cassini, JacquesBEA
Castelli, BenedettoBEA
Cauchy, Augustin-LouisBEA
Cavalieri, BonaventuraBEA
Cayley, ArthurBEA
Challis, JamesBEA
Chandrasekhar, SubrahmanyanBEA
Chapman, SydneyBEA
Chauvenet, WilliamBEA
Chrysippus, ChrysippusBEA
Clairaut, AlexisBEA
Clausen, ThomasBEA
Clavius, ChristopherBEA
CleomedesBEA
Clerke, AgnesBEA
CononBEA
Copernicus, NicolausBEA
Cosserat, EugèneBEA
Cotes, RogerBEA
Cowling, TomBEA
Cunitz, MariaBEA
Cusa, Nicholas deBEA
D
D'Alembert, JeanBEA
Darwin, GeorgeBEA
De Morgan, AugustusBEA
Dee, JohnBEA
Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-JosephBEA
Delaunay, CharlesBEA
DemocritusBEA
Descartes, RenéBEA
Digges, ThomasBEA
Dingle, HerbertBEA
Dionis de SéjourBEA
Dirac, PaulBEA
Doppelmayr, JohannBEA
Doppler, ChristianBEA
Dürer, AlbrechtBEA
E
Eckert, WallaceBEA
Eddington, ArthurBEA
Einstein, AlbertBEA
Encke, JohannBEA
EratosthenesBEA
Esclangon, ErnestBEA
EudemusBEA
EudoxusBEA
Euler, LeonhardBEA
EutociusBEA
Ezra, Rabbi benBEA
F
Fallows, FearonBEA
Ferrel, WilliamBEA
Fine, OronceBEA
FitzGerald, GeorgeBEA
Fizeau, HippolyteBEA
Flamsteed, JohnBEA
Fleming, WilliaminaBEA
Fontenelle, BernardBEA
Foucault, LéonBEA
Fowler, RalphBEA
Freundlich, FinlayBEA
Friedmann, AlexanderBEA
Frisi, PaoloBEA
G
Galilei, GalileoBEA
Gan DeBEA
Gassendi, PierreBEA
Gauss, CarlBEA
GeminusBEA
Gemma FrisiusBEA
Gerbert of AurillacBEA
Gherard of CremonaBEA
Glaisher, JamesBEA
Grassi, OrazioBEA
Greaves, WilliamBEA
Gregory, JamesBEA
Gregory, DavidBEA
Grimaldi, FrancescoBEA
Grosseteste, RobertBEA
Guo ShoujingBEA
H
Halley, EdmondBEA
Harriot, ThomasBEA
Helmholtz, HermannBEA
Henderson, ThomasBEA
HeraclidesBEA
Hermann of ReichenauBEA
Herschel, JohnBEA
Herschel, CarolineBEA
Herschel, WilliamBEA
Hevelius, JohannesBEA
Hevelius, KoopmanBEA
Hill, GeorgeBEA
HipparchusBEA
HippocratesBEA
Hooke, RobertBEA
Horrocks, JeremiahBEA
Hoyle, FredBEA
Hubble, EdwinBEA
Huygens, ChristiaanBEA
HypatiaBEA
HypsiclesBEA
J
Jabir ibn AflahBEA
Jackson, JohnBEA
Jagannatha, JagannathaBEA
Jeans, JamesBEA
Jeffreys, HaroldBEA
K
Kaluza, TheodorBEA
Kamalakara, KamalakaraBEA
Kepler, JohannesBEA
Khayyam, OmarBEA
Kirch, WinckelmannBEA
Kirchhoff, GustavBEA
Klein, OskarBEA
Kolmogorov, AndreyBEA
L
La Condamine, Charles-MarieBEA
La Hire, PhilippeBEA
Lacaille, Nicolas-LouisBEA
Lagrange, Joseph-LouisBEA
Lalande, JérômeBEA
LallaBEA
Lambert, JohannBEA
Lanczos, CorneliusBEA
Lansberge, PhilipBEA
Laplace, Pierre-SimonBEA
Larmor, JosephBEA
Le Fèvre, JeanBEA
Le Verrier, UrbainBEA
Leavitt, HenriettaBEA
Legendre, Adrien-MarieBEA
Leibniz, GottfriedBEA
Lemaître, GeorgesBEA
Leonardo da VinciBEA
Labrière, Nicole-ReineBEA
Leucippus, LeucippusBEA
Levi ben GersonBEA
Lexell, AndersBEA
Li ChunfengBEA
Lobachevsky, NikolaiBEA
Lorentz, HendrikBEA
M
Maclaurin, ColinBEA
Magini, GiovanniBEA
Malebranche, NicolasBEA
Manfredi, EustachioBEA
Markov, AndreiBEA
Maskelyne, NevilBEA
Mästlin, MichaelBEA
Maunder, AnnieBEA
Maupertuis, Pierre-LouisBEA
Maurolico, FrancescoBEA
Maxwell, JamesBEA
Mayer, TobiasBEA
Mayr, SimonBEA
McVittie, GeorgeBEA
Méchain, PierreBEA
MenaechmusBEA
MenelausBEA
Mercator, NicolausBEA
Mersenne, MarinBEA
Milne, E ABEA
Mineur, HenriBEA
Minkowski, HermannBEA
Mitchell, MariaBEA
Mollweide, KarlBEA
Molyneux, SamuelBEA
Molyneux, WilliamBEA
Morin, Jean-BaptisteBEA
Moulton, ForestBEA
N
Napier, JohnBEA
Neugebauer, OttoBEA
Neumann, CarlBEA
Newcomb, SimonBEA
Newton, IsaacBEA
Nunes, PedroBEA
O
O'Connell, DanielBEA
Oenopides, OenopidesBEA
Öpik, ErnstBEA
Oresme, NicholasBEA
P
PappusBEA
Paramesvara, ParamesvaraBEA
Payne-Gaposchkin, CeciliaBEA
Petit, PierreBEA
Peurbach, GeorgBEA
Piazzi, GiuseppeBEA
Picard, JeanBEA
Recillas, MarieBEA
Plana, GiovanniBEA
PlatoBEA
Poincaré, HenriBEA
Poisson, Siméon-DenisBEA
Poretsky, PlatonBEA
Posidonius, PosidoniusBEA
ProclusBEA
PtolemyBEA
Puiseux, PierreBEA
PythagorasBEA
Q
Quetelet, AdolpheBEA
Qushji, AliBEA
R
Ramus, PeterBEA
Rankine, WilliamBEA
Recorde, RobertBEA
RegiomontanusBEA
Reinhold, ErasmusBEA
Rheticus, GeorgBEA
Ricci, MatteoBEA
Riccioli, GiovanniBEA
Rittenhouse, DavidBEA
Robertson, HowardBEA
Roche, ÉdouardBEA
Ross, FrankBEA
Runge, CarlBEA
Rydberg, JohannesBEA
S
Sacrobosco, JohnBEA
Sampson, RalphBEA
Saunder, SamuelBEA
Savary, FélixBEA
Savile, HenryBEA
Scheiner, ChristophBEA
Schickard, WilhelmBEA
Schmidt, OttoBEA
Schrödinger, ErwinBEA
Schwarzschild, KarlBEA
Scot, MichaelBEA
See, T J JBEA
Shapley, HarlowBEA
Shapley, MarthaBEA
Sharp, AbrahamBEA
Siguenza y GongoraBEA
SimpliciusBEA
Sitter, WillemBEA
Snell, WillebrordBEA
Somerville, MaryBEA
Spitzer, LymanBEA
Sripati, SripatiBEA
Stevin, SimonBEA
Stewart, MatthewBEA
Stokes, GeorgeBEA
Størmer, CarlBEA
T
Taylor, GeoffreyBEA
ThabitBEA
ThalesBEA
TheodosiusBEA
Theon of AlexandriaBEA
Theon of SmyrnaBEA
Thiele, ThorvaldBEA
Thomson, WilliamBEA
Tibbon, JacobBEA
Tisserand, FélixBEA
Torricelli, EvangelistaBEA
U
Ulugh BegBEA
V
VarahamihiraBEA
Verbiest, FerdinandBEA
VitruviusBEA
W
Walker, GeoffreyBEA
Wallis, JohnBEA
Ward, SethBEA
Werner, JohannBEA
Weyl, HermannBEA
Whewell, WilliamBEA
Whiston, WilliamBEA
Whitehead, AlfredBEA
Whitrow, GeraldBEA
Wilkins, JohnBEA
Wilson, AlexanderBEA
Winlock, JosephBEA
Wittich, PaulBEA
Wolf, RudolfBEA
Wren, ChristopherBEA
Y
YativrsabhaBEA
YavanesvaraBEA
Yunus, IbnBEA
Z
Zhang HengBEA
Zu ChongzhiBEA
Zwicky, FritzBEA