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).
~ 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.
~ 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).