Occupation: Professor of Astronomy

Year born: 1965

Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy

Occupation: Historian

Year born: 1946

Research Areas: History of Science, History of Astronomy, Broadcasting

"Historians of astronomy…are… people with a broad and open-minded curiosity about those forces which drove human endeavour in the past."

Occupation: Astronomer and Writer

Year born: 1842

Research Areas: History of Astronomy, Biographies, Spectroscopy

Occupation: Physicist & Astronomer

Year born: 1873

Research Areas: Relativity, Black Holes, Quantum Theory, Stars, Comets

"Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, march in one front."

Occupation: Physicist & Author

Year born: 1942

Research Areas: Cosmology, Theoretical Physics

Occupation: Astrophysicist

Year born: 1910

Research Areas: Stellar Evolution, Black Holes

"My motive has not been to solve a single problem, but to acquire a perspective of an entire area"

Occupation: Mathematician, Astronomer

Year born: 1868

Research Areas: The Sun, Sunspots, Magnetic Storms

Occupation: Mathematician

Year born: 1918

Research Areas: Rocket Flightpaths, Trajectories, Orbital Mechanics

"I loved going to work every single day"