Heike ~ Onnes (1853-1926), Dutch physicist; awarded
the 1913 Nobel Prize in physics "for his investigations on the
properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to
the production of liquid helium."
Kane
63.1N
26.1E
54
Elisha Kent ~ (1820-1857), American explorer.
Kant
10.6S
20.1E
33
Immanuel ~ (1724-1804), German philosopher.
Kao
6.7S
87.6E
34
Ping-Tse ~ (1888-1970); Taiwanese astronomer.
Kapteyn
10.8S
70.6E
49
Jacobus C. ~ (1851-1922), Dutch astronomer.
Karima
25.9S
103.0E
3
Arabic female name; also market district
in the Sudan.
Karpinskiy
73.3N
166.3E
92
Aleksey P. ~ (1846-1936), Soviet geologist.
Karrer
52.1S
141.8W
51
Paul ~ (1889-1971), Russian-Swiss biochemist; first to
isolate vitamins A and K, and to synthesize vitamins B˛ and E.
Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his
investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B˛."
Kasper
8.3N
122.1E
12
Polish male name.
Kästner
6.8S
78.5E
108
Abraham Gotthelf ~ (1719-1800), German mathematician
and physicist.
Katchalsky
5.9N
116.1E
32
Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky
(1914-1972), Polish-Israeli
chemist; received the Israel Prize in 1961.
Kathleen
5.9N
116.1E
32
Irish female name.
Kearons
11.4S
112.6W
23
William M. ~ (1878-1948), American astronomer.
Keeler
10.2S
161.9E
160
James E. ~ (1857-1900), American astronomer.
Kekulé
16.4N
138.1W
94
Friedrich A. ~, later Kekulé von
Stradonitz (1829-1896), German chemist and theorist.
Keldysh
51.2N
43.6E
33
Mstislav V. ~ (1911-1978), Soviet
mathematician.
Kepinski
28.8N
126.6E
31
F. ~ (1885-1966), Polish astronomer.
Kepler
8.1N
38.0W
31
Johannes ~ (1571-1630), German astronomer.
Khvol'son
13.8S
111.4E
54
Orest D. ~ (1852-1934), Soviet physicist.
Kibal'chich
3.0N
146.5W
92
Nikolai Ivanovich ~ (1853-1881), Russian
rocketry scientist.
Kidinnu
35.9N
122.9E
56
~, or Cidenas (?-c.
343 B.C.), Babylonian astronomer.
Kies
26.3S
22.5W
45
Johann ~ (1713-1781), German mathematician, astronomer.
Kiess
6.4S
84.0E
63
Carl Clarence ~ (1887-1967), American astrophysicist.
Kimura
57.1S
118.4E
28
Hisashi ~ (1870-1943), Japanese astronomer.
Kinau
60.8S
15.1E
41
C. A. ~ (?-fl. 1850), German botanist, selenographer.
King
5.0N
120.5E
76
Arthur S. ~ (1876-1957), American physicist;
Edward S. ~ (1861-1931), American astronomer.
Kira
17.6S
132.8E
3
Russian female name.
Kirch
39.2N
5.6W
11
Gottfried ~ (1639-1710), German astronomer.
Kircher
67.1S
45.3W
72
Athanasius ~ (1601-1680), German mathematician and humanitarian.
Kirchhoff
30.3N
38.8E
24
Gustav Robert ~ (1824-1887), German physicist.
Kirkwood
68.8N
156.1W
67
Daniel ~ (1814-1895), American astronomer.
Klaproth
69.8S
26.0W
119
Martin Heinrich ~ (1743-1817), German chemist and
mineralogist.
Klein
12.0S
2.6E
44
Hermann Joseph ~ (1844-1914), German astronomer.
Kleymenov
32.4S
140.2W
55
Ivan T. ~ (1898-1938), Soviet rocketry scientist.
Klute
37.2N
141.3W
75
Daniel O. ~ (1921-1964), American rocketry scientist.
Knox-Shaw
5.3N
80.2E
12
Harold ~ (1885-1970), British astronomer.
Koch
42.8S
150.1E
95
Robert ~ (1843-1910), German physician and researcher;
discovered the cholera bacillus. Awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in
medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to
tuberculosis."
Kohlschutter
14.4N
154.0E
53
Arnold ~ (1883-1969), German astronomer.
Kolhorster
11.2N
114.6W
97
Werner ~ (1887-1946), German physicist.
Komarov
24.7N
152.5E
78
Vladimir M. ~ (1927-1967), Soviet cosmonaut; first
person to die on a spaceflight.
Kondratyuk
14.9S
115.5E
108
Yurij V. ~ (1897-1942), Soviet rocketry scientist.
Konig
24.1S
24.6W
23
Rudolf ~ (1865-1927), Austrian mathematician, astronomer.
Konoplev
28.5S
125.5W
25
B.T. ~ (1912-1960), Soviet radio engineer.
Konstantinov
9.8N
158.4E
66
Konstantin I. ~ (1817-1871), Russian rocketry scientist.
Kopff
17.4S
89.6W
41
August ~ (1882-1960), German astronomer.
Korolev
4.0S
157.4W
437
Sergei Pavlovich ~ (1906-1966), Soviet rocketry scientist;
known as the father of the Russian space program.
Kosberg
20.2S
149.6E
15
C. A. ~ (1903-1965), Soviet aeronaut.
Kostinskiy
14.7N
118.8E
75
Sergei K. ~ (1867-1937), Soviet astronomer.
Koval'skij
21.9S
101.0E
49
Marian A. ~ ( 1821-1884), Russian astronomer.
Kovalevskaya
30.8N
129.6W
115
Sofia V. ~ (1850-1891), Russian mathematician.
Kozyrev
46.8S
129.3E
65
Nikolai A. ~ (1908-1983), Russian astronomer.
Krafft
16.6N
72.6W
51
Wolfgang Ludwig ~ (1743-1814), German astronomer,
physicist.
Kramarov
2.3S
98.8W
20
G. M. ~ (1887-1970), Soviet space scientist.
Kramers
53.6N
127.6W
61
Hendrik A. ~ (1894-1952), Dutch physicist.
Krasnov
29.9S
79.6W
40
Aleksander V. ~ (1866-1907), Russian astronomer.
Krasovski
3.9N
175.5W
59
Feodosi N. ~ (1878-1948), Soviet geodesist.
Kreiken
9.0S
84.6E
23
Edberg Adrian ~ (1896-1964), Dutch educator and astronomer.
Krieger
29.0N
45.6W
22
Johann Nepomuk ~ (1865-1902), German selenographer.
Krishna
24.5N
11.3E
3
~, Most widely revered and most popular of all Indian
divinities.
Krogh
9.4N
65.7E
19
Schack August Steenberg ~ (1874-1949), Danish
zoologist and physiologist; awarded the 1920 Nobel Laureate in
medicine "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating
mechanism."
Krusenstern
26.2S
5.9E
47
Adam Johann, Baron von ~ (1770-1846), Russian explorer.
Krylov
35.6N
165.8W
49
Aleksei Nikolaevich ~ (1863-1945), Soviet mathematician,
compass theorist and mechanical
engineer.
Kugler
53.8S
103.7E
65
Franz Xavier ~ (1862-1929), German Jesuit
chronologist; an authority on Babylonian and biblical astronomy,
chronology and mythology
Kuiper
9.8S
22.7W
6
Gerard Peter ~ (1905-1973), Dutch-American astronomer.
Kulik
42.4N
154.5W
58
Leonid A. ~ (1883-1942), Soviet mineralogist.
Kundt
11.5S
11.5W
10
August ~ (1839-1894), German physicist.
Kunowsky
3.2N
32.5W
18
Georg Karl Friedrich ~ (1786-1846), German astronomer.
Kuo Shou Ching
8.4N
133.7W
34
~ (1231-1316), Chinese astronomer; Kuo's torquetum, an
early astronomical device capable of fixing star positions and
producing conversions between equatorial and ecliptical coordinates, was the first astronomical device to use an equatorial
mounting. It was constructed at Linfen, Shansi Province, but stands
today at Nanjing, where it is utterly useless.
Kurchatov
38.3N
142.1E
106
Igor V. ~ (1903-1960), Soviet nuclear physicist;
founding father of Soviet nuclear weapons program.
