Palisa

9.4S

7.2W

33

Johann; Czechoslovakian-Austrian astronomer (1848-1925).

Palitzsch

28.0S

64.5E

41

Johann Georg; German astronomer (1723-1788).

Pallas

5.5N

1.6W

46

Peter Simon; German geologist, natural historian (1741-1811).

Palmieri

28.6S

47.7W

40

Luigi; Italian physicist, mathematician (1807-1896).

Paneth

63.0N

94.8W

65

Friedrich Adolf; German chemist (1887-1958).

Pannekoek

4.2S

140.5E

71

Antonie; Dutch astronomer (1873-1960).

Papaleksi

10.2N

164.0E

97

Nikolaj D.; Soviet physicist (1880-1947).

Paracelsus

23.0S

163.1E

83

Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, or Philippus Aureolus ~; Swiss doctor, pioneering alchemist and metallurgist (1493-1541).

Paraskevopoulos

50.4N

149.9

94

John S.; Greek-American astronomer (1889-1951).

Parenago

25.9N

108.5W

93

Pavel P.; Soviet astronomer (1906-1960).

Parkhurst

33.4S

103.6E

96

John A.; American astronomer (1861-1925).

Parrot

14.5S

3.3E

70

Johann Jacob F. W.; Russian doctor, physicist (1792-1840).

Parry

7.9S

15.8W

47

William Edward; British explorer (1790-1855).

Parsons

37.3N

171.2W

40

John W.; American rocketry scientist (1913-1952).

Pascal

74.6N

70.3W

115

Blaise; French mathematician (1623-1662).

Paschen

13.5S

139.8W

124

Friedrich; German physicist (1865-1940).

Pasteur

11.9S

104.6E

224

Louis; French chemist, microbiologist (1822-1895).

Patricia

25.0N

0.3E

5

English female name.

Patsaev

16.7S

133.4E

55

Viktor I.; Soviet engineer (1933-1971).

Pauli

44.5S

136.4E

84

Wolfgang; Austrian-American physicist; awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for his enunciation of the exclusion principle, fundamental to quantum mechanics (1900-1958).

Pavlov

28.8S

142.5E

148

Ivan P.; Soviet physiologist; Nobel laureate (1849-1936).

Pawsey

44.5N

145.0E

60

Joseph L.; Australian radio astronomer (1908-1962).

Peary

88.6N

33.0E

73

Robert E.; American explorer (1856-1920).

Pease

12.5N

106.1W

38

Francis G.; American astronomer (1881-1938).

Peek

2.6N

86.9E

12

Bertrand Meigh; British astronomer (1891-1965).

Peirce

18.3N

53.5E

18

Benjamin; American mathematician, astronomer (1809-1880).

Peirescius

46.5S

67.6E

61

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, or ~; French astronomer, archaeologist (1580-1637).

Pentland

64.6S

11.5E

56

Joseph Barclay; Irish geographer (1797-1873).

Perel'man

24.0S

106.0E

46

Yakov I.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1882-1942).

Perepelkin

10.0S

129.0E

97

Evgenij J.; Soviet astrophysicist (1906-1940).

Perkin

47.2N

175.9W

62

Richard S.; American telescope manufacturer (1906-1969).

Perrine

42.5N

127.8W

86

Charles D.; American astronomer (1867-1951).

Petavius

25.1S

60.4E

188

Denis Petau, or ~; French chronologist, astronomer (1583-1652).

Petermann

74.2N

66.3E

73

August Heinrich; German geographer (1822-1878).

Peters

68.1N

29.5E

15

Christian August Friedrich; German astronomer (1806-1880).

Petit

2.3N

63.5E

5

Alexis Therese; French physicist (1771-1820).

Petrie

45.3N

108.4E

33

Robert M.; Canadian astronomer (1906-1966).

Petropavlovskiy

37.2N

114.8W

63

Boris S.; Soviet rocketry engineer (1898-1933).

Petrov

61.4S

88.0E

49

Evgenij S.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1900-1942).

Pettit

27.5S

86.6W

35

Edison; American astronomer (1889-1962).

Petzval

62.7S

110.4W

90

Joseph von; Austrian optician (1807-1891).

Phillips

26.6S

75.3E

122

John; British geologist, astronomer (1800-1874).

Philolaus

72.1N

32.4W

70

~ of Croton; Greek mathematician, astronomer, philosopher (?-fl. 400 B.C.).

Phocylides

52.7S

57.0W

121

Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker); Dutch astronomer (1618-1651).

Piazzi

36.6S

67.9W

134

Giuseppe; Italian astronomer (1746-1826).

Piazzi-Smyth

41.9N

3.2W

13

Charles; Scottish astronomer (1819-1900).

Picard

14.6N

54.7E

22

Jean; French astronomer (1620-1682).

Piccolomini

29.7S

32.2E

87

Alessandro; Italian astronomer (1508-1578).

Pickering

2.9S

7.0E

15

Edward Charles; American astronomer (1846-1919); William Henry; American astronomer; discovered the ninth moon of Saturn, called Phoebe, and also announced the finding of a tenth satellite (not confirmed until 1967). In 1919, he predicted the existence and location of a ninth planet, confirmed later and named Pluto. His observations of the Moon, including the study of its craters, is considered a landmark work.

Pictet

43.6S

7.4W

62

Marc-Auguste ~-Turretin; Swiss physicist (1752-1825).

Pikel'ner

47.9S

123.3E

47

Solomon Borisovich; Soviet astronomer, cosmologist (1921-1975).

Pilatre

60.2S

86.9W

50

~ de Rozier; French aeronaut; made one of the first balloon ascents by man, to a tethered height of 25 meters (1753-1785).

Pingre

58.7S

73.7W

88

Alexandre Guy; French astronomer (1711-1796).

Pirandello

2.8N

88.8E

8

Luigi; Italian playwright, novelist (1867-1936).

Pirquet

20.3S

139.6E

65

Baron Guido von ~; Austrian mechanical engineer; developed pioneering theories on spacecraft trajectories; his calculated trajectory for a space probe to reach Venus, published in 1928, was identical to the one used by the first Soviet interplanetary spacecraft to Venus in 1961 (1880-1966)

Pitatus

29.9S

13.5W

106

Pitati, Pietro; Italian astronomer, mathematician (?-fl. c. 1500)

Pitiscus

50.4S

30.9E

82

Bartholemaeus; German mathematician (1561-1613).

Pizzetti

34.9S

118.8E

44

P.; Italian geodesist (1860-1918).

Plana

42.2N

28.2E

44

Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo; Italian astronomer and geometrician (1781-1864).

Planck

57.9S

136.8E

314

Max Karl Ernst; German physicist; Nobel laureate (1858-1947).

Plante

10.2S

163.3E

37

Gaston; French physicist (1834-1889).

Plaskett

82.1N

174.3E

109

John S.; Canadian astronomer (1865-1941).

Plato

51.6N

9.4W

109

~; Greek philosopher c.428-c.347 B.C.

Playfair

23.5S

8.4E

47

John; Scottish mathematician, geologist (1748-1819).

Plinius

15.4N

23.7E

43

Caius ~ Secundus (Pliny The Elder); Roman natural scientist (c.A.D. 23–A.D. 79)

Plummer

25.0S

155.0W

73

Henry C.; British astronomer (1875-1946).

Plutarch

24.1N

79.0E

68

Greek essayist and biographer (c.A.D. 46-c.A.D. 120).

Poczobutt

57.1N

98.8W

195

Martin Odlanicky; Polish astronomer (1728-1810).

Pogson

42.2S

110.5E

50

Norman Robert; British astronomer (1829-1891).

Poincare

56.7S

163.6E

319

Jules Henri; French mathematician, physicist (1854-1912).

Poinsot

79.5N

145.7W

68

Louis; French mathematician (1777-1859).

Poisson

30.4S

10.6E

42

Simeon Denis; French mathematician (1781-1840).

Polybius

22.4S

25.6E

41

Greek historian (204?-122? B.C.).

Polzunov

25.3N

114.6E

67

Ivan I.; Russian heat engineer (1728-1766).

Pomortsev

0.7N

66.9E

23

Mikhail Mikhailovich; Russian rocketry scientist (1851-1916).

Poncelet

75.8N

54.1W

69

Jean V.; French mathematician, engineer (1788-1867).

Pons

25.3S

21.5E

41

Jean Louis; French astronomer (1761-1831).

Pontanus

28.4S

14.4E

57

Giovanni Gioviani Pontano, or ~; Italian astronomer (1427-1503).

Pontécoulant

58.7S

66.0E

91

Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de ~; French mathematician (1795-1874).

Pope

9.5S

89.0E

17

Alexander; British writer (1688-1744).

Popov

17.2N

99.7E

65

Aleksandr S.; Russian physicist, engineer (1859-1905); C.; Bulgarian astronomer (1880-1966).

Porter

56.1S

10.1W

51

Russell W.; American telescope designer (1871-1949).

Posidonius

31.8N

29.9E

95

~ of Apamea; Greek geographer (135?-51? B.C.).

Poynting

18.1N

133.4W

128

John H.; British physicist (1852-1914).

Prager

3.9S

130.5E

60

Richard A.; German-American astronomer (1884-1945).

Prandtl

60.1S

141.8E

91

Ludwig; German physicist (1875-1953).

Priestley

57.3S

108.4E

52

Joseph; British chemist (1733-1804).

Prinz

25.5N

44.1W

46

Wilhelm; German-Belgian astronomer (1857-1910).

Priscilla

0.0N

0.0E

0

Latin female name.

Proclus

16.1N

46.8E

28

Diadochos (The Successor); Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (410?-485).

Proctor

46.4S

5.1W

52

Mary; American astronomer (1862-1957).

Protagoras

56.0N

7.3E

21

Greek philosopher (481(?)-411(?) B.C.).

Ptolemaeus

9.3S

1.9W

164

Ptolemy, or Claudius ~; Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer and geographer (fl. 2nd cent. A.D.).

Puiseux

27.8S

39.0W

24

Pierre; French astronomer (1855-1928).

Pupin

23.8N

11.0W

2

Michael Idvorsky; Yugoslavian-American physicist (1858-1935).

Purbach

25.5S

2.3W

115

Georg von; Austrian mathematician, astronomer (1423-1461).

Purkynve

1.6S

94.9E

48

Jan Evangelista; Czechoslovakian doctor, physiologist (1787-1869).

Pythagoras

63.5N

63.0W

142

~ of Samos; Greek philosopher and mathematician (?-fl. c. 532 B.C.).

Pytheas

20.5N

20.6W

20

~ of Marseilles; Greek navigator, explorer and geographer (b. c. 308 B.C.).

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