MacLaurin

1.9S

68.0E

50

Colin ~ (1698-1746), Scottish mathematician.

MacLear

10.5N

20.1E

20

Thomas ~ (1794-1879), Irish astronomer.

MacMillan

24.2N

7.8W

7

William Duncan ~ (1871-1948), American mathematician and astronomer.

Mach

18.5N

149.3W

180

Ernst ~ (1838-1916), Austrian physicist and philosopher.

Macrobius

21.3N

46.0E

64

Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius ~ (?-fl. c. 410), Roman writer; best known for Saturnalia.

Madler

11.0S

29.8E

27

Johann Heinrich ~ (1794-1874), German astronomer.

Maestlin

4.9N

40.6W

7

Michael ~ (1550-1631), German mathematician.

Magelhaens

11.9S

44.1E

40

Fernao de ~, Anglicized as Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), Portuguese explorer.

Maginus

50.5S

6.3W

194

Giovanni Antonio Magini, or ~ (1555-1617), Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Main

80.8N

10.1E

46

Robert ~ (1808-1878), British astronomer.

Mairan

41.6N

43.4W

40

Jean Jacques D'Ortous de ~ (1678-1771), French geophysicist.

Maksutov

40.5S

168.7W

83

Dmitrij D. ~ (1896-1964), Soviet optician.

Malapert

84.9S

12.9E

69

Charles ~ (1581-1630), Belgian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.

Mallet

45.4S

54.2E

58

Robert ~ (1810-1881), Irish engineer and seismologist.

Malyy

21.9N

105.3E

41

Aleksandr L. ~ (1907-1961), Soviet rocketry scientist.

Mandel'shtam

5.4N

162.4E

197

Leonid I. ~ (1879-1944), Soviet physicist.

Manilius

14.5N

9.1E

38

Marcus ~ (?-c. 50 B.C.), Roman writer.

Mann

23.1S

120.1E

23

Thomas ~ (1875-1955), German author; awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature."

Manners

4.6N

20.0E

15

Russell Henry ~ (1800-1870), British astronomer.

Manuel

24.5N

11.3E

0

Spanish male name.

Manzinus

67.7S

26.8E

98

Carlo Antonio Manzini, or ~ (1599-1677), Italian astronomer.

Maraldi

19.4N

34.9E

39

Giovanni Domenico ~ (1709-1788), Italian astronomer and geodesist;
Also Jacques Philippe ~ (1665-1729), French astronomer.

Marci

22.6N

167.0W

25

Jan Marek Marci von Kronland (1595-1667), Czechoslovakian physicist.

Marco Polo

15.4N

2.0W

28

~ (1254-1324), Italian explorer.

Marconi

9.6S

145.1E

73

Guglielmo ~ (1874-1937), Italian physicist, inventor; awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics (with C.F. Braun) "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."

Marinus

39.4S

76.5E

58

~ of Tyre (?-c. 100), Greek geographer.

Mariotte

28.5S

139.1W

65

Edme ~ (1620-1684), French physicist.

Marius

11.9N

50.8W

41

Simon Mayer, or ~ (1570-1624), German astronomer.

Markov

53.4N

62.7W

40

Aleksandr V. ~ (1897-1968), Soviet astrophysicist; Also Andrei A. ~ (1856-1922) Russian mathematician.

Marth

31.1S

29.3W

6

Albert ~ (1828-1897), German astronomer.

Mary

18.9N

27.4E

1

English form of Hebrew female name.

Maskelyne

2.2N

30.1E

23

Nevil ~ (1732-1811), British astronomer.

Mason

42.6N

30.5E

33

Charles ~ (1730-1787), British astronomer.

Maunder

14.6S

93.8W

55

Annie S. D. R. ~ (1868-1947), British astronomer;
Also Edward Walter ~ (1851-1928), British astronomer.

Maupertuis

49.6N

27.3W

45

Pierre Louis de ~ (1698-1759), French mathematician.

Maurolycus

42.0S

14.0E

114

Francesco Maurolico, or ~ (1494-1575), Italian mathematician.

Maury

37.1N

39.6E

17

Matthew Fontaine ~ (1806-1873), American oceanographer;
Also Antonia C. ~ (1866-1952), American astronomer.

Mavis

29.8N

26.4W

1

Scottish female name.

Maxwell

30.2N

98.9E

107

James Clerk ~ (1831-1879), British physicist.

McAdie

2.1N

92.1E

45

Alexander George ~ (1863-1943), American meteorologist.

McAuliffe

33.0S

148.9W

19

Sharon Christa ~ (1948-1986), American elementary school teacher; first civilian school teacher to fly in space, she perished with her crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger; previous designation of crater was Borman Y.

McClure

15.3S

50.3E

23

Robert Le Mesurier ~ (1807-1873), British explorer.

McDonald

30.4N

20.9W

7

William Johnson ~ (1844-1926), American benefactor;
Also Thomas Logie ~ (?-1973), Scottish selenographer.

McKellar

15.7S

170.8W

51

Andrew ~ (1910-1960), Canadian astronomer.

McLaughlin

47.1N

92.9W

79

Dean B. ~ (1901-1965), American astronomer.

McMath

17.3N

165.6W

86

Francis C. ~ (1867-1938), American engineer and astronomer;
Also Robert R. ~ (1891-1962), American astronomer.

McNair

35.7S

147.3W

29

Ronald Erwin ~, Ph.D. (1950-1986), American laser physicist and astronaut; while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. McNair performed some of the earliest development of chemical HF/DF and high-pressure CO lasers. His later experiments and theoretical analysis on the interaction of intense CO2 laser radiation with molecular gases provided new understandings and applications for highly excited polyatomic molecules. Perished with his crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger; previous designation of crater was Borman A.

McNally

22.6N

127.2W

47

Paul A. ~ (1890-1955), American astronomer.

Mechnikov

11.0S

149.0W

60

Ilya Ilyich ~ (1845-1916), Russian-French bacteriologist; awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine (jointly with Paul Ehrlich) "in recognition of their work on immunity."

Mee

43.7S

35.3W

126

Arthur Butler Phillips ~ (1860-1926), Scottish astronomer.

Mees

13.6N

96.1W

50

Charles Edward Kenneth ~ (1882-1960), Anglo-American photographer and physicist; first director of Kodak Research Laboratories. With F.C.L. Wratten (q.v.), invented and produced the first panchromatic photographic plates in England.

Meggers

24.3N

123.0E

52

William Frederick ~ (1888-1966), American physicist; noted for his work in spectrochemical analysis. The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) presents an annual award in his name to the author of the outstanding paper appearing in Applied Spectroscopy.

Meitner

10.5S

112.7E

87

Lise ~ (1878-1968), Austrian physicist.

Melissa

8.1N

121.8E

18

Greek female name.

Mendel

48.8S

109.4W

138

Gregor J. ~ (1822-1884), Austrian biologist.

Mendeleev

5.7N

140.9E

313

Dmitrij I. ~ (1834-1907), Russian chemist.

Menelaus

16.3N

16.0E

26

~ of Alexandria (c. A.D. 98), Greek geometer and astronomer.

Menzel

3.4N

36.9E

3

Donald Howard ~, Ph.D. (1901-1976), American astrophysicist and educator; taught astronomy at Harvard and served as director of Harvard College Observatory (1952-1966). Noted as one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States, and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy. A founder of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Mercator

29.3S

26.1W

46

Gerard de Kremer, or Gerhardus ~ (1512-1594), Belgian cartographer, geographer and mathematician.

Mercurius

46.6N

66.2E

67

Mercury, mythical Roman messenger.

Merrill

75.2N

116.3W

57

Paul W. ~ (1887-1961), American astronomer.

Mersenius

21.5S

49.2W

84

Marin Mersenne, or ~ (1588-1648), French mathematician and physicist.

Meshcherskiy

12.2N

125.5E

65

Ivan V. ~ (1859-1935), Russian mathematician.

Messala

39.2N

60.5E

125

Mâshâllâh, or Mâ shâ Allah, or ~ (?- c. 815), Arab Jewish astronomer; an associate of al-Mansur, he is most noted for De scientia motus orbis.

Messier

1.9S

47.6E

11

Charles ~ (1730-1817), French astronomer.

Metius

40.3S

43.3E

87

Adriaan Adriaanszoon, or ~ (1571-1635), Dutch astronomer.

Meton

73.6N

18.8E

130

~ (?-fl. 432 B.C.), Greek astronomer.

Mezentsev

72.1N

128.7W

89

Yurij B. ~ (1929-1965), Soviet rocket scientist.

Michael

25.1N

0.2E

4

English male name.

Michelson

7.2N

120.7W

123

Albert Abraham ~ (1852-1931), German-American physicist; awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in physics "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid."

Milankovic,
or Milankovitch

77.2N

168.8E

101

Milutin ~ (1879-1958), Yugoslavian (Serbian) astronomer, physicist and mathematician; showed that the Earth's orbital "cycle" has additional modulations that make it fluctuate considerably.

Milichius

10.0N

30.2W

12

Jacob Milich, or ~ (1501-1559), German doctor, mathematician and astronomer.

Miller

39.3S

0.8E

61

William Allen ~ (1817-1870), British chemist.

Millikan

46.8N

121.5E

98

Robert Andrews ~ (1868-1953), American physicist; awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."

Mills

8.6N

156.0E

32

Mark M. ~ (1917-1958), American physicist.

Milne

31.4S

112.2E

272

E. Arthur ~ (1896-1950), British mathematician and astrophysicist.

Milton

1.6S

90.9E

35

John ~ (1608-1674), British poet and author; best known for Paradise Lost.

Mineur

25.0N

161.3W

73

Henri ~ (1899-1954), French mathematician and astronomer.

Minkowski

56.5S

146.0W

113

Hermann ~ (1864-1909), German mathematician;
Also Rudolph L. B. ~ (1895-1976), American astronomer.

Minnaert

67.8S

179.6E

125

Marcel G. ~ (1893-1970), Dutch astronomer and astrophysicist.

Mitchell

49.7N

20.2E

30

Maria ~ (1818-1889), American astronomer.

Mitra

18.0N

154.7W

92

Sisir Kumar ~ (1890-1963), Indian physicist; his treatise The Upper Atmosphere is a key work regarding the Earth's ionosphere.

Mobius

15.8N

101.2E

50

August F. ~ (1790-1868), German mathematician and astronomer.

Mohorovicic

19.0S

165.0W

51

Andrija ~ (1857-1936), Croatian geophysicist; much of our knowledge of how earthquakes occur, the location of the epicenter and the current models of the Earth's structure can be traced to his work.

Moigno

66.4N

28.9E

36

Francois Napoleon Marie ~ (1804-1884); French mathematician and physicist.

Moiseev

9.5N

103.3E

59

Nikolaj D. ~ (1902-1955), Soviet astronomer.

Moissan

4.8N

137.4E

21

Ferdinand Frédéric Henri ~ (1852-1907), French chemist; awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him."

Moltke

0.6S

24.2E

6

Helmuth Karl, Graf von ~ (1800-1891), German benefactor.

Monge

19.2S

47.6E

36

Gaspard ~ (1746-1818), French mathematician.

Monira

12.6S

1.7W

2

Arabic female name.

Montaigne

4.4S

99.5E

55

Michel Eyguem de ~ (1533-1592), French author; best known for his Essays, in which he studied mankind through himself.

Montanari

45.8S

20.6W

76

Geminiano ~ (1633-1687), Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Montesquieu

6.2S

92.3E

0

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de ~ (1689-1755), French author and philosopher; his most influential work, The Spirit of the Laws (1748), concerns the nature and workings of government.

Montgolfier

47.3N

159.8W

88

Named for the brothers Jacques-Etienne (1745-1799) and  Joseph-Michel (1740-1810) ~ French inventors; made the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon in 1783.

Moore

37.4N

177.5W

54

Joseph H. ~ (1878-1949), American astronomer.

Moretus

70.6S

5.8W

111

Theodore Moret, or ~ (1602-1667), Belgian mathematician.

Morley

2.8S

64.6E

14

Edward Williams ~ (1838-1923), American chemist.

Morozov

5.0N

127.4E

42

Nikolaj A. ~ (1854-1945), Soviet natural scientist.

Morse

22.1N

175.1W

77

Samuel Finley Breese ~ (1791-1872), American artist and inventor; founder and first president of the National Academy of Design. As an innovator of telegraphy, he devised a mechanical sending and receiving instrument, and a "language" comprised of dots and dashes that became standard ("Morse code").

Moseley

20.9N

90.1W

90

Henry G. J. ~ (1887-1915), British physicist.

Mösting

0.7S

5.9W

24

Johan Sigismund von ~ (1759-1843), Danish benefactor.

Mouchez

78.3N

26.6W

81

Ernest Amédée Barthélémy ~ (1821-1892), French admiral, explorer and astronomer; director of the Paris Observatory. Using the astrograph of the Henry freres (q.v.), he compiled the Carte du ciel, a photographic map of the heavens.

Moulton

61.1S

97.2E

49

Forest R. ~ (1872-1952), American astronomer.

Muller

7.6S

2.1E

22

Karl ~ (1866-1942), Czechoslovakian astronomer.

Murakami

23.3S

140.5W

45

H. ~ (1872-1947), Japanese physicist and astronomer; the asteroid 3295 Murakami is named in his honor.

Murchison

5.1N

0.1W

57

Sir Roderick Impey ~ (1792-1871), Scottish geologist.

Mutus

63.6S

30.1E

77

Vincente Mut, or Muth, or ~ (?-1673), Spanish astronomer.