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Named after
Ernst Karl Abbe - German optician, physicist, astronomer (1840-1905).
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Named after Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra Abenezra - Spanish mathematician, astronomer (1092-1164/1167).
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Named after Abū al-Wafā al-Būzajāni Wáfa - Persian mathematician, astronomer (940-998).
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Named after Ismail Ibn Abū al-Fidā Abulfeda - Syrian geographer (1273-1331).
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Named after
Cristobal Acosta - Portuguese doctor, natural historian (1515-1580).
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Named after
John Couch Adams - British astronomer (1819-1892) and Charles Hitchcock Adams - American astronomer (1868-1951) and
Walter Sydney Adams - American astronomer (1876-1956).
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Named after Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus - German-Russian astronomer (1724-1802).
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Named after Agatharchides of Cnidos - Greek geographer (c. 116 B.C.).
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Named after Agrippa - Greek astronomer (unkn-fl. A.D. 92).
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Named after Abū Ubayd Abdallāh Ibn abd al-Azīz Ibn Muhammad Al-Bakri - Spanish-Arab geographer (1010-1094).
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Named after Abū ar-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Birūnī Al-Biruni - Persian astronomer, mathematician, geographer (973-1048).
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Named after Muhammed Ben Geber Al-Battānī Albategnius - Arab astronomer, mathematician (c. 858-929).
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Male name of German origin (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after
Kurt Alder - German organic chemist; Nobel laureate (1902-1958).
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Named after Nikolaj Pavlovich Alekhin - Soviet rocket designer, engineer (1913-1964).
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Named after Al-Fargani, Abu'l-'Abbās Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathīr Alfraganus - Persian astronomer (unkn-c. 840).
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Hawaiian female first name.
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Named after Al-Bitrūjī Al-Ishbīlī, Abū Ishāq Alpetragius - Spanish astronomer (unkn-c. 1100).
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Named after Alfonso X (El Sabio) Alphonsus - Spanish astronomer (1221-1284).
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Named after
Dinsmore Alter - American astronomer, meteorologist (1888-1968).
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Named after Fiorino (or Florentino) Ameghino - Argentine paleontologist and anthropologist (1854-1911).
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Named after Ammonius - Greek philosopher (unkn.-c. A.D. 517-526).
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Named after
Anaxagoras - Greek astronomer (500-428 B.C.).
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Named after
Anaximander - Greek astronomer (c. 611-547 B.C.).
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Named after Anaximenes - Greek astronomer (585-528 B.C.).
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Named after Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov - Soviet physicist (1901-1952).
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Named after
Karel Anděl - Czechoslovakian astronomer (1884-1948).
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Hebrew female name.
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German female name.
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Named after Dimitrii Nikolaevich Anuchin - Russian geographer (1843-1923).
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Named to honor Apollo missions.
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Named after
Archimedes - Greek physicist, mathematician (c. 287-212 B.C.).
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Named after
Archytas - Greek mathematician (428-347 B.C. ?).
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Named after Philip III of Macedonia Ariadaeus - chronologer (c. 358-317 B.C.).
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Named after Aristarchus - Greek astronomer (310-230 B.C. ?).
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Named after
Aristillus - Greek astronomer (fl. c. 280 B.C.).
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Named after
Aristoteles - Greek astronomer, philosopher (383-322 B.C.).
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Franciszek; Polish astronomer (1789-1848). (Spelling changed from Armínski.)
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Named after Vladimir Andreevich Artem'ev - Soviet rocket scientist (1885-1962).
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Greek female first name.
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Named after
Aryabhata I - Indian astronomer, mathematician (476-c.550).
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Named after
Goryu Asada - Japanese astronomer (1734-1799).
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Mythological Greek Titan.
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Named after
George Atwood - British mathematician, physicist (1746-1807).
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Named after
Adrien Auzout - French astronomer, physicist (1622-1691).
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Named after Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdallah Avicenna - Persian doctor (980-1037).
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Named after Amedeo (Conte Di Quarengna) Avogadro - Italian physicist (1776-1856).
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Named after Al-Sufi, Abderrahman Azophi - Persian astronomer (903-986).
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Named after Georgii Nikolaevich Babakin - Soviet space scientist (1914-1971).
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Named after
Bacon, Roger - British natural philosopher, optician (c. 1214-c. 1294).
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Named after Aleksey Aleksandrovich Balandin - Soviet chemist (1898-1967).
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Named after William Ball - British astronomer (unkn-1690).
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Named after
Isaac Barrow - British mathematician (1630-1677).
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Named after Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Léonce Élie de Beaumont - French geologist (1798-1874).
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Named after
Martin Behaim - German navigator, cartographer (1459-1507).
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Named after Faddei Faddeevich (Bellingshausen) - Russian explorer (1778-1852).
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Named after Aristarch Apollonovich Belopol'skiy - Russian astronomer (1854-1934).
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Jacques; Swiss mathematician (1654-1705); Jean; Swiss mathematician (1667-1748). (Spelling changed from Bernouilli.)
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Named after
Mario Bettinus - Italian mathematician, astronomer (1582-1657).
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Chinese inventor (c. 990-1051).
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Named after Hiram Bingham - American explorer (1875-1956).
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Named after
Jorge Bobone - Argentinean astronomer (1901-1958).
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Named after
Priscilla Fairfield Bok - American astronomer (1896-1975), Bart Jan; Dutch-American astronomer (1906-1983).
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Named after
Janos Bolyai - Hungarian mathematician (1802-1860).
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Named after Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko - Soviet student-cosmonaut (1937-1961).
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Named after
George Boole - British mathematician (1815-1864).
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Named after
Frank Borman - American astronaut, engineer (1928-Live).
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Named after
Max Born - German physicist (1882-1970).
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Slavic male name Boris in Russian diminutive form (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after
Carl Bosch - German chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1931 (1874-1940).
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Named after
Lewis Boss - American astronomer (1846-1912).
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Named after
Robert Boyle - British natural philosopher, chemist (1627-1691).
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Named after Semion Ya. Braude - Ukranian radio astronomer (1911-2003).
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Named after
Scipione Breislak - Italian chemist, geologist, mathematician (1748-1826).
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Named after Henry Briggs - British mathematician (1561-1630).
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Named after
Henri Buisson - French physicist, astronomer (1873-1944).
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Named after Christoph Hendrik Diederik Buys-Ballot - Dutch meteorologist (1817-1890).
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Hungarian male name, also Slovak female name.
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Named after Christian Mayer - German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1719-1783).
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Chinese inventor (c. 57-121).
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Named after Calippus of Cyzicus - Greek astronomer (c. 370 B.C.).
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Named after Campanus of Navara - Italian astronomer (c. 1200-1296).
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Named after Francesco Capuano Di Manfredonia Capuanus - Italian astronomer (c. 1400-unkn).
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Named after James Carpenter - British astronomer (1840-1899) and
Edwin Francis Carpenter - American astronomer (1898-1963).
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Named after
Alexis Carrel - French doctor, physiologist; Nobel laureate (1873-1944).
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Named after
Arthur Cayley - British astronomer, mathematician (1821-1895).
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Named after
Censorinus - Roman astronomer (fl. A.D. 238).
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Mythological astronomer, father of Andromeda.
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Named after
James Challis - British astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1803-1882).
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Chinese astronomer (78-139).
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Chinese female name.
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Named after Sydney Chapman - British geophysicist (1888-1970).
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Named after
Kalpana Chawla - American astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Specialist (1961-2003).
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Named after Nikolaj Gavrilovich Chernyshev - Soviet rocketry engineer (1906-1963).
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Named after
Henri Chrétien - French mathematician, astronomer (1870-1956).
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Named after Francesco Degli Stabili (Cecco D'Ascoli) Cichus - Italian astronomer (1257-1327).
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Named after
Cleomedes - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 50 B.C.).
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Named after
Cleostratus - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 500 B.C.).
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Named after Michael Collins - American astronaut (1930-Live).
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Named after Columbus, Christopher Colombo - Spanish explorer (1451-1506).
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Named after
James Cook - British explorer (1728-1779).
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Named after Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Guiseppe Cremona - Italian mathematician (1830-1903).
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Named after
Peter Crüger - German mathematician (1580-1639).
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Named after
Ctesibius - Egyptian physicist (unkn-c. 100 B.C.).
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Named after
Pierre Curie - French physicist, chemist; Nobel laureate (1859-1906).
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Named after Curtz, Albert Curtius - German astronomer (1600-1671).
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Named after
Georges Cuvier - French natural scientist, paleontologist (1769-1832).
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Named after
David McDowell Brown - American astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Specialist (1956-2003).
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Greek mythological character.
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Scandinavian male name.
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Named after
John Dalton - British chemist, physicist (1766-1844).
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Named after Baron Marie-Charles-Theodor de Damoiseau - French astronomer (1768-1846).
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Named after
Lee Forest - American inventor (1873-1961).
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Named after
Warren Rue - British astronomer (1815-1889).
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Named after
Felix Roy - Belgian astronomer (1883-1942).
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Named after
Ernst Debes - German cartographer (1840-1923).
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Named after
Democritus - Greek astronomer, philosopher (c. 460-360 B.C.).
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Named after
Demonax - Greek philosopher (fl. 2nd century A.D.).
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Named after William Fredrick Denning - British astronomer (1848-1931).
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Named after
René Descartes - French mathematician, philosopher (1596-1650).
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Named after
Diophantus - Greek mathematician (unkn-c. A.D. 300).
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Named after Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovol'skiy - Soviet cosmonaut (1928-1971).
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Named after Georg Samuel Doerfel - German astronomer (1643-1688).
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Italian female name.
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Named after Nils Christofer Dunér - Swedish astronomer (1839-1914).
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English female name.
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Named after
Hans Egede - Danish natural historian (1686-1758).
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Named after
Paul Ehrlich - German doctor; Nobel laureate (1854-1915).
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Named after
Albert Einstein - German-American physicist; Nobel laureate (1879-1955).
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Named after Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger - British astronomer (1836-1897).
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Named after
Robert Emden - Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (1862-1940).
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Greek mythological character.
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Named after Vasilij Pavlovich (Engelhardt) - Russian astronomer (1828-1915).
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Named after Epigenes - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 200 B.C.).
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Named after
Epimenides - Greek philosopher, writer (unkn-fl. 596 B.C.).
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Named after
Eratosthenes - Greek astronomer, geographer (c. 276-196 B.C.).
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Named after
Joseph Erlanger - American physiologist, Nobel Prize winner 1944 (1874-1965).
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Named after Robert-Albert-Charles Esnault-Pelterie - French rocketry engineer (1881-1957).
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Named after Thomas Henry Espinall Compton - British astronomer (1858-1934).
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Named after Euclid Euclides - Greek mathematician (unkn-c. 300 B.C.).
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Named after
Euctemon - Greek astronomer (unkn-fl. 432 B.C.).
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Named after Eudoxus - Greek astronomer (c. 408-355 B.C.).
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Named after Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni - Italian chemist (1752-1822).
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Named after Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albans Faye - French astronomer (1814-1902).
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Named after
A.P. Fedorov - Russian rocket scientist (1872-1920).
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Named after
Enrico Fermi - Italian-American physicist; Nobel laureate (1901-1954).
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Named after Jean François Fernelius - French doctor, astronomer (1497-1558).
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Named after Vasilii Grigor'evich Fesenkov - Russian astrophysicist (1889-1972).
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Named after Joahnnes Andreas Grib Fibiger - Danish pathologist, Nobel Prize winner 1926 (1867-1928).
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Named after Julius Maternus of Syracuse Firmicus - Roman astrologer (fl. A.D. 330-354).
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Named after Georgij Frolovich Firsov - Soviet rocketry engineer (1917-1960).
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Named after
Howard Walter Florey - Australian-born British pathologist, Nobel Prize winner 1945 (1898-1968).
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Named after Ionnas (Jean-Henri) Focas - Greek/French astronomer (1909-1969).
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Named after Philip Fox - American astronomer (1878-1944).
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Italian geographer (unkn-1459).
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Named after
James Franck - German physicist; Nobel laureate (1882-1964).
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Named after Roald Hilding Fryxell - American geologist (1934-1974).
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Named after Furner, Georges Furnerius - French mathematician (unkn-fl. 1643).
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Named after
Gyula Fényi - Hungarian astronomer (1845-1927).
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Named after Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin - Soviet cosmonaut (1934-1968).
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Named after Aleksey Pavlovich (Hansky) - Russian astronomer (1870-1908).
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Named after
Pierre Gassendi - French astronomer, mathematician (1592-1655).
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Named after Jābir Ibn Aflah Al-Ishbīlī, Abū Muhammad Geber - Spanish-Arab astronomer (fl. first half of twelfth cent.).
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Named after
Geminus - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 70 B.C.).
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Named after Jemma, Reinier Frisius - Dutch doctor (1508-1555).
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Greek-derived male name Gennady in Russian diminutive form (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after
Grove Karl Gilbert - American geologist (1843-1918), William; English physician and physicist (1544-1603).
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Named after
Flavio Gioja - Italian inventor (unkn-fl. 1302).
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Italian astronomer (1548-1600).
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Named after Sergei Pavlovich Glazenap - Soviet astronomer (1848-1937).
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Named after
Louis Godin - French astronomer, mathematician (1704-1760).
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Named after
Hermann Goldschmidt - French astronomer of German origin, discoverer of asteroid (21) Lutetia (1802-1866).
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Named after
Camillo Golgi - Italian doctor; Nobel laureate (c. 1843-1926).
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Named after Nicholas Erasmus Golovin - American rocketry scientist (1912-1969).
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English female name.
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Named after Andrej Dmitrievich Grachev - Soviet rocketry scientist (1900-1964).
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Named after George Green - British mathematician (1793-1841).
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Named after James Gregory - Scottish astronomer, mathematician (1638-1675).
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Named after John Grigg - New Zealander astronomer (1838-1920).
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Named after
Victor Grignard - French chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1912 (1871-1935).
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Named after
Colin Gum - Australian astronomer (1924-1960).
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Named after Herbert George Wells - British scientific writer (1866-1946).
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Named after
Fritz Haber - German-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1918 (1868-1934).
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Named after Hayek, Thaddaeus Hagecius - Czechoslovakian astronomer, mathematician (1525-1600).
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Named after John Burdon Sanderson Haldane - British doctor (1892-1964).
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Named after
George Ellery Hale - American astronomer (1868-1938) and William Hale - British rocket scientist (1797-1870).
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Named after
Asaph Hall - American astronomer (1829-1907).
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Named after Hanno - Carthaginian navigator(unkn-c. 500 B.C.).
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Named after
Spiru Haret - Rumanian astronomer (1851-1912).
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Named after
Harkhebi - Egyptian astronomer (c. 300 B.C.).
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Scandinavian male name.
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Named after
Harpalus - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 460 B.C.).
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Named after
Thomas Harriot - British mathematician, astronomer (1560-1621).
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Named after
Roy Healy - American rocketry scientist (1915-1968).
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Named after Hecataeus - Greek geographer (unkn-c. 476 B.C.).
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Named after Wladimir Wáclav Heinrich - Czechoslovakian astronomer (1884-1965).
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Named after
Eduard Heis - German astronomer (1806-1877).
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Named after Helicon - Greek astronomer, mathematician (fl. c. 361 B.C.).
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Named after Thomas Henderson - Scottish astronomer (1798-1844).
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Named after
Heraclitus - Greek philosopher (c. 540-480 B.C.).
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Latin spelling for Greek mythological hero Heracles.
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Named after Jacob Hermann - Swiss mathematician (1678-1733).
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Named after Of Halikarnassus Herodotus - Greek historian (c. 484-408 B.C.).
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Named after
(Hero) - Egyptian inventor (unkn-c. 100 B.C.).
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Named after Hess - Victor Franz (Francis) and Hess - American physicist (1883-1964) and
Harry Hammond Hess - American geologist (1906-1969).
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Named after Howelcke, Johann Hevelius - Polish astronomer (1611-1687).
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Named after
Georg Karl Hevesy - Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1943 (1885-1966).
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Greek explorer (unkn-c. 120).
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Named after
Hipparchus - Greek astronomer (unkn-fl. 140 B.C.).
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Named after
Hippocrates - Greek doctor (c. 460-377 B.C.).
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Named after
Walter Hohmann - German space flight engineer (1880-1945).
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Named after
Johann Hommel - German astronomer, mathematician (1518-1562).
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Named after
Robert Hooke - British physicist, inventor (1635-1703).
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Named after Jean-Charles-Hippolyte-Joseph de Lehaie Houzeau - Belgian astronomer (1820-1888).
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Named after
David Hume - Scottish philosopher (1711-1776).
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Named after
Rick Douglas Husband - American astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Commander (1957-2003).
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Scottish male name.
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Spanish-Arab astronomer and philosopher (c. 1095-1138).
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Named after
Abbas Ibn Firnas - Spanish-Arab humanitarian, technologist (unkn- A.D. 887).
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Named after Abu al-Walîd Ibn Rushd (Averroës) Ibn-Rushd - Spanish-Arab philosopher/doctor (1126-1198).
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Greek mythical flyer.
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Named after Naum Ilich Idel'son - Soviet astronomer (1885-1951).
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Norse male name Ingvar adopted as Russian name (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after
N.Ja. Il'in - Soviet rocketry scientist (1901-1937).
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Named after Joffe, Abram Feodorovich Ioffe - Soviet physicist (1880-1960).
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Spanish female name.
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Named after Alexei Mikhailovich Isaev - Soviet rocket designer (1908-1971).
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Egyptian female first name.
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Named after
Imre Izsak - Hungarian-American astronomer (1929-1965).
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Named after John Jackson - Scottish astronomer (1887-1958).
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Turkish female name.
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Scandinavian male name.
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French writer (1828-1905).
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French female name.
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Named after
Caesar - Roman emperor, introduced the Julian calendar (c. 102-44 B.C.).
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Named after
Ping-Tse Kao - Taiwanese astronomer (1888-1970).
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Arabic female name.
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Named after Alexander Petrovich Karpinskiy - Soviet geologist (1846-1936).
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Named after
Paul Karrer - Russian/Swiss biochemist; Nobel laureate (1889-1971).
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Named after William Maybrick Kearons - American astronomer (1878-1948).
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Named after Orest Danilovich Khvol'son - Soviet physicist (1852-1934).
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Named after Nikolaj Ivanovich Kibal'chich - Russian rocketry scientist (1853-1881).
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Named after Or Cidenas Kidinnu - Babylonian astronomer (unkn-c. 343 B.C.).
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Named after
Johann Kies - German mathematician, astronomer (1713-1781).
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Russian female name.
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Named after Ivan Terent'evich Kleymenov - Soviet rocketry scientist (1898-1938).
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Named after Daniel O'Donnell Klute - American rocketry scientist (1921-1964).
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Named after
Robert Koch - German doctor; Nobel laureate (1843-1910).
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Russian male name, diminutive from Greek-derived Nicholas (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Yury Vasilyevich Kondratyuk - Soviet rocketry scientist (1897-1942).
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Named after B.T. Konoplev - Soviet radio engineer (1912-1960).
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Named after Sergey Konstantinovich Kostinskiy - Soviet astronomer (1867-1936).
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Latin-derived male name Konstantin in Russian diminutive form (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Marian Albertovich; Russian astronomer (1821-1884). (Spelling changed from Koval'skij.)
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Named after Grigory Moiseevich Kramarov - Soviet space scientist (1887-1970).
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Named after Theodosy Nicolaevich Krasovskiy - Soviet geodesist (1878-1948).
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Named after
Richard Kuhn - Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1938; (1900-1967).
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Chinese astronomer (1231-1316).
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Named after
Rudolf König - Austrian mathematician, astronomer (1865-1927).
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Named after Jean Francois de Galoup, Comte De La Pérouse - French explorer (1741-1788).
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Named after Giulio Cesare Lagalla - Italian philosopher (1571-1624).
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Named after
Sir Horace Lamb - British mathematician, physicist (1849-1934).
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Named after
Gabriel Lamé - French mathematician (1795-1870).
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Named after
Karl Landsteiner - Austrian-American pathologist; Nobel laureate (1868-1943).
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Named after Georgij Erikhovich Langemak - Soviet rocketry scientist (1898-1938).
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Named after
Irving Langmuir - American physicist, chemist; Nobel laureate (1881-1957).
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Named after
Ernest Orlando Lawrence - American physicist; Nobel laureate (1901-1958), and Robert Henry, Jr.; American astronaut (1935-1967).
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Named after Guillaume Hyazinthe Gentil - French astronomer (1725-1792).
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Named after Pëtr Nikolajevich Lebedev - Russian physicist (1866-1912).
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Named after John Lee - British astronomer, humanitarian (1783-1866).
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Russian male name of Greek origin (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov - Soviet cosmonaut (1934-Live).
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Named after
Leucippus - Greek philosopher (unkn-fl. c. 440 B.C.).
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Russian male name of Hebrew origin.
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Named after
Willy Ley - German-American rocketry scientist (1906-1969).
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Named after
James Lick - American benefactor (1796-1876).
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Spanish female name.
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Named after Hans (Jan Lapprey) Lippershey - Dutch optician (unkn-1619).
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Named after Yurii Naumovich Lipskiy - Soviet selenographer (1909-1978).
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Named after Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevskiy - Russian mathematician (1793-1856).
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French female name.
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Named after Stanislaus Lubiniezky - Polish astronomer (1623-1675).
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Named after
Ernst Mach - Austrian physicist, philosopher (1838-1916).
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Colin; Scottish mathematician (1698-1746). (Spelling changed from MacLaurin.)
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Named after Fernao De (Ferdinand Magellan) Magelhaens - Portuguese explorer (1480-1521).
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Named after Magini, Giovanni Antonio Maginus - Italian astronomer, mathematician (1555-1617).
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Named after
Robert Main - British astronomer (1808-1878).
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Named after Dmitrij Dmitrievich Maksutov - Soviet optician (1896-1964).
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Named after
Charles Malapert - Belgian astronomer, mathematician, philosopher (1581-1630).
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Egor Ivanovich, Russian meteorite researcher (1923-2008).
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Named after
Robert Mallet - Irish seismologist, engineer (1810-1881).
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Named after Aleksandr L'vovich Malyy - Soviet rocketry scientist (1907-1961).
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Named after Manzini, Carlo Antonio Manzinus - Italian astronomer (1599-1677).
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Named after Jan Marek Marci von Kronland - Czechoslovakian physicist (1595-1667).
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Italian explorer (1254-1324).
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Named after
Guglielmo Marconi - Italian physicist, inventor; Nobel laureate (1874-1937).
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English form of Hebrew female name.
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Named after the Matthew Fontaine; American oceanographer (1806-1873); Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira; American astronomer (1866-1952).
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Scottish female name.
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Named after Gerard De Kremer (Gerhardus Mercator) - Belgian cartographer, geographer, mathematician (1512-1594).
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Mercury; Roman mythical messenger.
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Named after Mersenne, Marin Mersenius - French mathematician, physicist (1588-1648).
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Named after (Ma-Sa-Allah) Messala - Jewish astronomer (unkn- c. 815).
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Named after
Meton - Greek astronomer (unkn-fl. 432 B.C.).
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Named after Yurij Borisovich Mezentsev - Soviet rocket scientist (1929-1965).
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Named after
Henri Mineur - French mathematician, astronomer (1899-1954).
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Andrija; Croatian geophysicist (1857-1936). (Spelling changed from Mohoróvičic.)
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Named after Nikolay Dmitrievich Moiseev - Soviet astronomer (1902-1955).
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Arabic female name.
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Named after Nikolaj Aleksandrovich Morozov - Soviet natural scientist (1854-1945).
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Named after Ernest Amedee Barthelemy Mouchez - French astronomer (1821-1892).
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Named after Vincente Mut, or Muth Mutus - Spanish astronomer (unkn-1673).
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Named after Karl Müller - Czechoslovakian astronomer (1866-1942).
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Named after
Ajima Naonobu - Japanese mathematician (c. 1732-1798).
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Named after Nasir-Al-Din (Mohammed Ibn Hassan) Nasireddin - Persian astronomer (1201-1274).
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Named after
James Nasmyth - Scottish engineer, astronomer (1808-1890).
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Russian female name.
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Named after Necho - Egyptian ruler (fl. 6th-7th century B.C.).
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Named after Anatoly Alexeevich Nefed'ev - Russian astronomer (1910-1976).
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Named after
John Neper - Scottish mathematician (1550-1617).
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Named after Grigorij Nikolaevich Neujmin - Soviet astronomer (1885-1946).
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Named after
Simon Newcomb - Canadian-American astronomer (1835-1909).
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Named after
Sir Isaac Newton - British mathematician, physicist, astronomer (1643-1727).
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Named after Axel Vilfrid Nielsen - Danish astronomer (1902-1970) and
Harald Herborg Nielsen - American physicist (1903-1973).
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Joseph-Nicéphore; French physicist, photographer (1765-1833). (Spelling changed from Niépce.)
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Russian diminutive form of the Greek-derived male name Nicholas (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Pedro Nuñez Salaciense Nonius - Portuguese mathematician (1502-1578).
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Named after
Robert Norman - British natural scientist (unkn-fl. c. 1590).
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Named after Boris Vasilievich Numerov - Soviet astronomer (1891-1941).
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Named after
Joseph Nunn - American engineer (1905-1968).
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Frantisek; Czechoslovakian astronomer (1867-1925). (Spelling changed from Nüsl.)
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Named after Vladimir Afanasievich Obruchev - Soviet geologist (1863-1956).
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Named after (Okenfuss), Lorenz - German biologist, physiologist (1779-1851).
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Named after Al-Khayyāmī Khayyam - Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet (c. 1048-c. 1131).
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Named after Aleksandr Iakovlevich Orlov - Soviet astronomer (1880-1954) and
Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov - Soviet astronomer (1880-1958).
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Named after Oronce Fine (Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus) - French mathematician, cartographer (1494-1555).
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Egyptian male first name.
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Named after
Johann Palisa - Czechoslovakian-Austrian astronomer (1848-1925).
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Named after
Peter Simon Pallas - German-born Russian geologist, natural historian (1741-1811).
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Named after
Luigi Palmieri - Italian physicist, mathematician (1807-1896).
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Named after Nikolaj Dmitrievich Papaleksi - Soviet physicist (1880-1947).
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Named after Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim Paracelsus - Swiss-German doctor, chemist (1493-1541).
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Named after
Louis Pasteur - French chemist, microbiologist (1822-1895).
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English female name.
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Named after
Wolfgang Pauli - Austrian-American physicist; Nobel laureate (1900-1958).
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Named after Francis Gladheim Pease - American astronomer (1881-1938).
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Named after
Benjamin Peirce - American mathematician, astronomer (1809-1880).
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Named after Yakov Isidorovich Perel'man - Soviet rocketry scientist (1882-1942).
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Named after Yevgenii Yakovlevich Perepelkin - Soviet astrophysicist (1906-1938).
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Named after Boris S. Petropavlovskiy - Soviet rocketry engineer (1898-1933).
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Named after Evgenij Stepanovich Petrov - Soviet rocketry scientist (1900-1942).
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Named after John Phillips - British geologist, astronomer (1800-1874).
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Named after
Of Croton Philolaus - Greek mathematician, astronomer, philosopher (unkn-fl. 400 B.C.).
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Named after Charles Smyth - Italian-born Scottish astronomer (1819-1900).
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Named after
Jean Picard - French astronomer (1620-1682).
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Named after
Edward Charles Pickering - American astronomer (1846-1919) and William H. Pickering - American astronomer (1858-1938).
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Named after Pictet-Turretin, Marc-Auguste - Swiss physicist (1752-1825).
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Named after Solomon Borisovich Pikel'ner - Soviet astronomer, cosmologist (1921-1975).
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Greek philosopher c.428-c.347 B.C.
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Named after
John Playfair - Scottish mathematician, geologist (1748-1819).
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Named after
Plutarch - Greek biographer (c. A.D.46-c. 120).
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Named after Martin Odlanicky Poczobutt - Polish astronomer (1728-1810).
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Named after
Polybius - Greek historian (204(?)-122(?) B.C.).
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Named after Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev - Russian rocketry scientist (1851-1916).
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Named after Pontano, Giovanni Gioviani Pontanus - Italian astronomer (1427-1503).
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Named after
Wilhelm Prinz - German-Belgian astronomer (1857-1910).
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Named after
Protagoras - Greek philosopher (c. 485-415 B.C.).
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Named after Lambert Aldophe Jacques Quetelet - Belgian statistician, astronomer (1796-1874).
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Named after
Gershon, Levi Ben - French philosopher, mathematician, astronomer (1288-1344).
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Named after
Giulio Racah - Italian-Israeli physicist (1909-1965).
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Named after
Ilan Ramon - Israeli astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Payload Specialist (1954-2003).
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Named after
Jesse Ramsden - British instrument maker (1735-1800).
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Named after Aleksandr Andreyevich Raspletin - Soviet radio engineer (1908-1967).
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Named after
Albert W. Recht - American astronomer, mathematician (1892-1962).
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Named after Baer, Nicolai Reymers Reimarus - German mathematician (c. 1550-c. 1600).
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Named after Georg Joachim von Lauchen of Rhaetia Rhaeticus - Hungarian astronomer, mathematician (1514-1576).
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Named after Anton Maria Schyrle of Rhaetia Rheita - Czechoslovakian astronomer, optician (c. 1597-1660).
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Named after Augustine Riccius - Italian astronomer (fl. 1513) and Ricci, Matteo Riccius - Italian mathematician, geographer (1552-1610).
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Named after
David Rittenhouse - American inventor, astronomer, mathematician (1732-1796).
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Named after Giovanni Antonio Rocca - Italian mathematician (1607-1656).
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Spanish female name.
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Named after Dmitriy Sergeevich Rozhdestvenskiy - Soviet physicist (1876-1940).
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Named after
Henry Norris Russell - American astronomer (1877-1957) and John Russell - British artist, selenographer (1745-1806).
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Hebrew female name.
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Named after
Graham Ryder - United Kingdom-born, American geologist (1949-2002).
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Named after Nikolaj Alexsevitch Rynin - Soviet rocketry scientist (1877-1942).
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Named after
Ole Römer - Danish astronomer (1644-1710).
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Named after
Paul Sabatier - French chemist; Nobel laureate (1854-1941).
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Named after John of Holywood, Johannes Sacrobuschus Sacrobosco - British astronomer, mathematician (c. 1200-1256).
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Named after
Eugen Saenger - German rocketry scientist (1905-1964).
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Named after
Meghnad Saha - Indian astrophysicist (1893-1956).
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Named after Georg Schomberger - Austrian astronomer, mathematician (1597-1645).
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Named after Theodor Friedrich von Schubert - Russian cartographer (1789-1865).
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Named after Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov - Russian physiologist (1829-1905).
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Named after Seleucus - Babylonian astronomer (unkn-fl. c. 150 B.C.).
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Turkish female name.
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Named after
Abraham Sharp - British astronomer, mathematician (1651-1742).
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Named after Vladimir Alexandrovich Shatalov - Soviet cosmonaut (1927-Live).
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Named after Grigorii Abramovich Shayn - Soviet astrophysicist (1892-1956).
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Named after
Shi(H) Shen - Chinese astronomer (unkn-c. 300 B.C.).
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Named after James Short - Scottish mathematician, optician (1710-1768).
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Mikhail Vasil'evich; Soviet radio engineer (1884-1939). (Spelling changed from Shulejkin.)
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Named after
Simon Sinas - Greek benefactor (1810-1876).
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Named after Noraír Martirósovich Sisakyan - Soviet doctor and biochemist (1907-1966).
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Indian female name.
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Named after
David Charles Slater - American planetary scientist, specialist in optics and detectors (1957-2011).
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Slavic male name, diminutive from Vyacheslav (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Michael John Smith - member of the Challenger crew (1945-1986).
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Named after
James Smithson - British chemist, mineralogist (1765-1829).
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Named after Snell, Willebrod van Roijen Snellius - Dutch mathematician, astronomer, optician (1580-1626).
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Named after
Jan Sniadecki - Polish astronomer, mathematician (1756-1830).
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Named after
Frederick Soddy - British physicist; Nobel laureate (1877-1956).
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Persian female name.
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Named after Sosigenes - Greek astronomer, chronologist (unkn-fl. 46 B.C.).
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Named after
James South - British astronomer (1785-1867).
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Named after
Johannes Stark - German physicist; Nobel laureate (1874-1957).
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Named after Ari Abramovich Sternfeld - Soviet space scientist (1905-1980).
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Named after
Strabo - Greek geographer (54 B.C.- A.D. 24).
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Named after Frederick John Marrion Stratton - British astronomer, astrophysicist (1881-1960).
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Named after Johann Stöfler - German astronomer, mathematician (1452-1531).
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Named after
Gaius Gallus - Roman astronomer (unkn-fl. c. B.C. 166).
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Named after Karl Frithiof Sundman - Finnish astronomer (1873-1949).
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English female name.
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Named after
Theodor Svedberg - Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize winner 1926 (1884-1971).
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Named after
Otto Sverdrup - Norwegian polar explorer (1855-1930).
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Named after
Lewis Swift - American astronomer (1820-1913).
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Named after
Leo Szilard - Hungarian-American physicist (1898-1964).
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One of three enclosures in Chinese ancient star map.
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Japanese male name.
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Named after
Brook Taylor - British mathematician (1685-1731).
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Named after
John Tebbutt - Australian astronomer (1834-1916).
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Named after
Nikola Tesla - American scientist of Serbian origin (1856-1943).
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Named after
Of Miletus Thales - Greek mathematician, astronomer, philosopher (c. 636-546 B.C.).
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Named after the Marie; Geologist and oceanographer, created first comprehensive map of the ocean floor and is credited with discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (1920-1986).
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Named after Theaetetus - Greek mathematician (c. 417-369 B.C.).
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Named after Al-Sābi' al-Harrani Thābit Ibn Qurra Thebit - Iraqi astronomer (836-901).
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Named after
Max Theiler - South African bacteriologist; Nobel laureate (1899-1972).
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Named after
Of Smyrna Senior - Greek mathematician and astronomer (c. A.D. 130).
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Named after Theophilus - Greek astronomer (unkn-A.D. 412).
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Named after
Theophrastus - Greek philosopher and scientist (c. 372-287 B.C.).
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Named after
Walter Thiel - German rocket builder (1910-1943).
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One of three enclosures in Chinese ancient star map.
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Named after Nikolaj Ivanovich Tikhomirov - Soviet chemical engineer (1860-1930).
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Named after Timaeus - Greek astronomer (unkn-c. 400 B.C.).
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Named after Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev - Russian botanist, physiologist (1843-1920).
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Named after
Timocharis - Greek astronomer (unkn-fl. c. 280 B.C.).
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Named after Paolo Dal Pozza Toscanelli - Italian doctor, cartographer (1397-1482).
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Named after Friedrich Arturovich (Zander) - Soviet rocketry scientist (1887-1933).
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Named after Vitol'd Karlovich (Ceraski) - Russian astronomer (1849-1925).
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Named after Nikolai Iakovlevich (Zinger) - Russian astronomer (1842-1918).
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Chinese mathematician (430-501).
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Named after
Tycho Brahe - Danish astronomer (1546-1601).
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Named after
Ulugh-Beg Beigh - Mongolian astronomer, mathematician (1394-1449).
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Male name Valery of Latin origin in Russian diminutive form (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after
Max Valier - German rocketry engineer (1895-1930).
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Named after
Uco Wijk - Dutch-American astronomer (1924-1966).
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Portuguese navigator, explorer (c. 1460-1524).
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Named after Mikheil Alekandres Vashakidze - Soviet astronomer (1909-1956).
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Russian diminutive form of male name Vasily of Greek origin (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Wendelin, Godefroid Vendelinus - Belgian astronomer (1580-1667).
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Named after Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadskiy - Soviet mineralogist (1863-1945).
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Named after Francois Vieta - French mathematician (1540-1603).
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Named after Mikhail Vil'ev - Russian astronomer (1893-1919).
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Named after Witelo, Erazmus Ciokek Vitello - Polish physicist, mathematician (1210-1285).
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Latin male name Victor in Russian diminutive form (Lunokhod-1 landing site feature).
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Named after Count Allessandro Guiseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta - Italian physicist (1745-1827).
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Named after
Vito Volterra - Italian mathematician, physicist (1860-1940).
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Named after
Theodore Kármán - Hungarian-American aeronautical scientist (1881-1963).
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Named after
John Neumann - American mathematician (1903-1957).
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Named after
Otto Wallach - German chemist; Nobel laureate (1847-1931).
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Bernard; German astronomer (1430-1504). (Spelling changed from Walter.)
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Legendary Chinese inventor.
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Named after
Bernard Wapowski - Polish cartographer, the "Father of Polish Cartography" (1450-1535).
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Named after
James Watt - Scottish inventor (1736-1819).
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Named after
Edmund Weiss - German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1837-1917).
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Named after
Harry Wexler - American meteorologist (1911-1962).
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Named after
Hermann Weyl - German-American mathematician (1885-1955).
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Aloys Joseph Beck Edler von; German physicist (1754-1849). (Spelling changed from Widmanstätten.)
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Named after
Rupert Wildt - German-American astronomer (1905-1976).
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Named after Maxmilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf - German astronomer (1863-1932).
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Named after
Jan Woltjer - Dutch astronomer (1891-1946).
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Named after
Xenophon - Greek natural philosopher, historian (c. 430-354 B.C.).
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Named after Pavel Nikoaevich Yablochkov - Russian electrical engineer (1847-1894).
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Japanese male name.
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Named after Thomas Young - British doctor, physicist (1773-1829).
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Named after
Pieter Zeeman - Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate (1865-1943).
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Named after
Frits Zernike - Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate (1888-1966).
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Chinese astronomer (1902-1986).
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Named after Georgii Sergeevich Zhiritskiy - Soviet rocketry scientist (1893-1966).
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Named after Nikolay Egorovich Zhukovskiy - Russian physicist (1847-1921).
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One of three enclosures in Chinese ancient star map.
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Named after
Fritz Zwicky - Swiss astrophysicist (1898-1974).
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Named after
Leonardo Vinci - Italian artist, inventor, mathematician (1452-1519).
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Wernher, German-American rocket pioneer (1912-1977).
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Named after
Georg Békésy - Hungarian otological physicist; Nobel laureate (1899-1972).