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20th-century British astronomers

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Arthur Eddington

British astrophysicist (1882-1944)

English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin

British-born American astronomer

Margaret Burbidge

British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)

John Louis Emil Dreyer

Danish-Irish astronomer

British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)

Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist

David Clifford Jewitt

British astronomer

Annie Scott Dill Maunder

British astronomer (1868-1947)

Harold Jeffreys

British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)

Scottish astronomer (1843-1914)

Brian G. Marsden

British astronomer (1937–2010)

British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)

Edward Arthur Milne

British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950)

Geoffrey Burbidge

British astronomer (1925–2010)

Elizabeth Alexander

British geologist, academic, physicist and radio astronomer

Herbert Hall Turner

British astronomer and seismologist (1861–1930)

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

Irish/British astronomer (1865–1939)

Harry Edwin Wood

English astronomer (1881-1946)

William Christie

British astronomer (1845–1922)

William Frederick Denning

British amateur astronomer (1848-1931)

Donald Lynden-Bell

English astrophysicist (1935-2018)

astronomer (1949–2020)

Richard van der Riet Woolley

British astronomer royal (1906–1986)

Philip Herbert Cowell

British astronomer (1870–1949)

Francis Graham-Smith

British astronomer

Arnold Wolfendale

British physicist (1927–2020)

Norman G. Thomas

American astronomer (1930–2020)

British astronomer

British astronomer and meteorologist.

British astronomer

Roger Blandford

British theoretical astrophysicist

Chandra Wickramasinghe

Robert Hanbury Brown

British astronomer and physicist, born in India (1916–2002)

Malcolm Hartley

Australian astronomer

Ralph Allen Sampson

Irish-British astronomer (1866-1939)

British-American astronomer

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

British astronomer, physicist and inventor (1898–1982)

Wallace L. W. Sargent

American astronomer (1935–2012)

Stephen P. Laurie

British astronomer

Edward Robert Harrison

British astronomer (1919–2007)

British astronomer (1941–2026)

Fiammetta Wilson

British astronomer (1864-1920)

British astronomer

John Campbell Brown

British astronomer (1947-2019)

German astronomer (1905-2000)

British astronomer

Charles R. Alcock

New Zealand astronomer

F. Richard Stephenson

British researcher in historical astronomy

F. J. M. Stratton

British astronomer (1881–1960)

British astronomer (1928–2003)

British astronomer

British astronomer

British astronomer (1927–2017)

Arthur Robert Hinks

British astronomer (1873–1945)

Gerald James Whitrow

British mathematician and historian of science (1912-2000)

Ian Paul Griffin

British astronome

Henry Crozier Keating Plummer

British astronomer

A. David Thackeray

South African astonomer (1910–1978)