La Caille

23.8S

1.1E

67

Nicholas Louis De ~ (1713-1762), French astronomer.

La Condamine

53.4

N 28.2W

37

Charles Marie De ~ (1701-1774), French astronomer, physicist.

La Perouse

10.7S

76.3E

77

Jean Francois de Galoup, Comte De ~ (1741-1788); French explorer.

Lacchini

41.7N

107.5W

58

Giovanni ~ (1884-1967), Italian astronomer.

Lacroix

37.9S

59.0W

37

Sylvestre Francois de ~ (1765-1843), French mathematician.

Lade

1.3S

10.1E

55

Heinrich Eduard von ~ (1817-1904), German astronomer.

Lagalla

44.6S

22.5W

85

Giulio Cesare ~ (1571-1624), Italian philosopher.

Lagrange

32.3S

72.8W

225

Joseph Louis ~ (1736-1813), Italian mathematician.

Lalande

4.4S

8.6W

24

Joseph Jerome Le Francois De ~ (1732-1807), French astronomer.

Lallemand

14.3S

84.1W

18

Andre ~ (1904-1978), French astronomer.

Lamarck

22.9S

69.8W

100

Jean B. P. A. De M.~ (1744-1829), French natural historian.

Lamb

42.9S

100.1E

106

Sir Horace ~ (1849-1934), British mathematician, physicist.

Lambert

25.8N

21.0W

30

Johann Heinrich ~ (1728-1777), German astronomer, mathematician, physicist.

Lame

14.7S

64.5E

84

Gabriel ~ (1795-1870), French mathematician.

Lamech

42.7N

13.1E

13

Felix Chemla ~ (1894-1962), French selenographer.

Lamont

4.4N

23.7E

106

John ~ (1805-1879), Scottish astronomer.

Lampland

31.0S

131.0E

65

Carl O. ~ (1873-1951), American astronomer.

Landau

41.6N

118.1W

214

Lev D. ~ (1908-1968), Soviet physicist; Nobel laureate.

Lander

15.3S

131.8E

40

Richard Lemon ~ (1804-1834), British explorer.

Landsteiner

31.3N

14.8W

6

Karl ~ (1868-1943), Austrian-American pathologist; Nobel laureate.

Lane

9.5S

132.0E

55

Jonathan H. ~ (1819-1880), American physicist, astrophysicist.

Langemak

10.3S

118.7E

97

Georgi E. ~ (1898-1938), Soviet rocketry scientist.

Langevin

44.3N

162.7E

58

Paul ~ (1872-1946), French physicist.

Langley

51.1N

86.3W

59

Samuel P. ~ (1834-1906), American astronomer, physicist.

Langmuir

35.7S

128.4W

91

Irving ~ (1881-1957), American physicist, chemist; Nobel laureate.

Langrenus

8.9S

61.1E

127

~, Michel Florent van Langren (c. 1600-1675), Belgian selenographer, engineer.

Lansberg

0.3S

26.6W

38

Philippe van ~ (1561-1632), Belgian astronomer.

Larmor

32.1N

179.7W

97

Sir Joseph ~ (1857-1942), British mathematician, physicist.

Lassell

15.5S

7.9W

23

William ~ (1799-1880), British astronomer.

Laue

28.0N

96.7W

87

Max T. F. von ~ (1879-1960), German physicist; Nobel laureate.

Lauritsen

27.6S

96.1E

52

Charles C. ~ (1892-1968), Danish-American physicist.

Lavoisier

38.2N

81.2W

70

Antoine Laurent ~ (1743-1794), French chemist.

Lawrence

7.4N

43.2E

24

Ernest Orlando ~ (1901-1958), American physicist, Nobel laureate; California's renowned Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is named in his honor.

Le Gentil

74.6S

75.7W

128

Guillaume Hyazinthe ~ (1725-1792), French astronomer.

Le Monnier

26.6N

30.6E

60

Pierre Charles ~ (1715-1799), French astronomer, physicist.

Le Verrier

40.3N

20.6W

20

Urbain Jean ~ (1811-1877), French astronomer, mathematician.

Leakey

3.2S

37.4E

12

Louis Seymour Bazett ~(1903-1972), British archaeologist and anthropologist; born in Kenya.

Leavitt

44.8S

139.3W

66

Henrietta S. ~ (1868-1921), American astronomer.

Lebedev

47.3S

107.8E

102

Pëtr N. ~ (1866-1912), Russian physicist; the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is named in his honor.

Lebedinskiy

8.3N

164.3W

62

Aleksandr I. ~ (1913-1967), Soviet astrophysicist.

Lebesgue

5.1S

89.0E

11

Henri Leon ~ (1875-1941), French mathematician.

Lee

30.7S

40.7W

41

John ~ (1783-1866), British astronomer, humanitarian.

Leeuwenhoek

29.3S

178.7W

125

Antony van ~ (1632-1723), Dutch microscopist and researcher; among his discoveries were bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes and rotifers.

Legendre

28.9S

70.2E

78

Adrien Marie ~ (1752-1833), French mathematician.

Lehmann

40.0S

56.0W

53

Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm ~ (1800-1863), German astronomer.

Leibnitz

38.3S

179.2E

245

Gottfried W. ~ (1646-1716), German mathematician, physicist, philosopher.

Lemaitre

61.2S

149.6W

91

Georges ~ (1894-1966), Belgian mathematician.

Lents (Lenz)

2.8N

102.1W

21

H. F. Emil ~ (1804-1865), Russian physicist.

Leonov

19.0N

148.2E

33

Aleksei Arkhipovich ~ (1934- ), Soviet cosmonaut; in 1964, became the first person to perform extra-vehicular activity ("space walk").

Lepaute

33.3S

33.6W

16

Nicole Reine De La Briere ~ (1723-1788), French astronomer.

Letronne

10.8S

42.5W

116

Jean Antoine ~ (1787-1848), French archaeologist.

Leucippus

29.1N

116.0W

56

~, (?-fl. c. 440 B.C.), Greek philosopher.

Leuschner

1.8N

108.8W

49

Armin O. ~ (1868-1953), American astronomer.

Levi-Civita

23.7S

143.4E

121

Tullio ~ (1873-1941), Italian mathematician, physicist.

Lewis

18.5S

113.8W

42

Gilbert N. ~ (1875-1946), American chemist.

Lexell

35.8S

4.2W

62

Anders Johann ~ (1740-1784), Swedish mathematician, astronomer.

Ley

42.2N

154.9E

79

Willy ~ (1906-1969), German-American rocketry scientist.

Li Po

3.5S

90.6E

15

~ (701-762), Chinese philosopher and writer.

Licetus

47.1S

6.7E

74

Fortunio Liceti, or Fortunius ~ (1577-1657), Italian physicist, philosopher, doctor.

Lichtenberg

31.8N

67.7W

20

Georg Christoph ~ (1742-1799), German physicist.

Lick

12.4N

52.7E

31

James ~ (1796-1876), American philanthropist; the world-famous Lick Observatory in California was built at his bequest.

Liebig

24.3S

48.2W

37

Justus, Baron von ~ (1803-1873), German chemist.

Lilius

54.5S

6.2E

61

Luigi Giglio, or ~ (?-1576), Italian doctor, philosopher, chronologist.

Linda

30.7N

33.4W

1

Spanish female name.

Lindbergh

5.4S

52.9E

12

Charles Augustus (1902-1974), American aviator; first successful solo flight across Atlantic Ocean.

Lindblad

70.4N

98.8W

66

Bertil ~ (1895-1965), Swedish astronomer.

Lindenau

32.3S

24.9E

53

Bernhard von ~ (1780-1854), German astronomer.

Lindsay

7.0S

13.0E

32

Eric M. ~ (1907-1974), Irish astronomer.

Linne

27.7N

11.8E

2

Carl von ~ (1707-1778), Swedish botanist.

Liouville

2.6N

73.5E

16

Joseph ~ (1809-1882), French mathematician.

Lippershey

25.9S

10.3W

6

Jan Lapprey, or Hans ~ (?-1619), Dutch optician.

Lippmann

56.0S

114.9W

160

Gabriel ~ (1845-1921), French physicist; Nobel laureate.

Lipskiy

2.2S

179.5W

80

Yuri N. ~ (1909-1978), Soviet selenographer.

Litke-utke

16.8

S 123.1E

39

Fedor P. ~ (1797-1882), Russian geographer.

Littrow

21.5N

31.4E

30

Johann Josef von ~ (1781-1840), Czechoslovakian astronomer.

Lobachevskiy
(act. Lobachevskii)

9.9N

112.6E

84

Nikolai Ivanovich ~ (1793-1856), Russian physicist and mathematician.

Lockyer

46.2S

36.7E

34

Sir Joseph Norman ~ (1836-1920), British astrophysicist.

Lodygin

17.7S

146.8W

62

Aleksandr N. ~ (1847-1923), Russian inventor.

Loewy

22.7S

32.8W

24

Moritz ~ (1833-1907), French astronomer.

Lohrmann

0.5S

67.2W

30

Wilhelm Gotthelf ~ (1796-1840), German selenographer.

Lohse

13.7S

60.2E

41

Oswald ~ (1845-1915), German astronomer.

Lomonosov

27.3N

98.0E

92

Mikhail Vasilyevich ~ (1711-1765), Russian cartographer, scientist and linguistic reformer; founder of Moscow State University.

Longfellow

7.5S

91.3E

35

Henry Wadsworth ~ (1807-1882), American poet.

Longomontanus

49.6s

21.8W

157

~, Kristen Longberg  [Sorensen; Severin, Christian] (1562-1647), Danish astronomer, mathematician.

Lorca

24.4N

10.9E

0

Federico Garcia ~ (1899-1936), Spanish writer.

Lorentz

32.6N

95.3W

312

Hendrik Antoon ~ (1853-1928), Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate.

Louise

28.5N

34.2W

0

French female name.

Louville

44.0N

46.0W

36

Jacques d'Allonville, Chevalier de ~ (1671-1732), French astronomer, mathematician.

Love

6.3S

129.0E

84

Augustus Edward Hough ~ (1863-1940), British mathematician, geophysicist.

Lovelace

82.3N

106.4W

54

William R. ~ (1907-1965), American doctor, space scientist.

Lovell

36.8S

141.9W

34

James Arthur ~, Jr. (1928- ), American astronaut; crew member on Gemini 7 (1965), Gemini 12 (1966) and Apollo 8 (1968). As commander, returned Apollo 13 mission (1970) to Earth following an explosion on board. Deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, Houston (1971).

Lowell

12.9S

103.1W

66

Percival ~ (1855-1916), American astronomer.

Lubbock

3.9S

41.8E

13

Sir John William ~ (1803-1865), British astronomer, mathematician.

Lubiniezky

17.8S

23.8W

43

Stanislaus ~ (1623-1675), Polish astronomer.

Lucian

14.3N

36.7E

7

~ of Samosata (c.117-ca.180), Syrian philosopher and satirist; his "True History" included an imaginary voyage to the Moon.

Lucretius

8.2S

120.8W

63

Titus ~ Carus (c. 95-55 B.C.), Roman poet and scientific philosopher .

Ludwig

7.7S

97.4E

23

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm ~ (1816-1895), German physiologist.

Lundmark

39.7S

152.5E

106

Knut Emil ~ (1889-1958), Swedish astronomer.

Luther

33.2N

24.1E

9

Robert ~ (1822-1900), German astronomer.

Lyapunov

26.3N

89.3E

66

Aleksandr Mikhajlovich ~ (1857-1918), Russian mathematician, engineer.

Lyell

13.6N

40.6E

32

Sir Charles ~ (1797-1875), Scottish geologist.

Lyman

64.8S

163.6E

84

Theodore ~ (1874-1954), American physicist.

Lyot

49.8S

84.5E

132

Bernard Ferdinand ~ (1897-1952), French astronomer; invented the coronagraph, a device which allows observation of the solar corona without an eclipse.