Appendix to part 1

Danny Caes's alphabetic list of names which he would like to see as an official addition to the IAU's list of lunar nomenclature

Because we are in the beginning of a new century, and because a new generation of lunar orbiters is already performing outstanding photographic work, a whole new list of (possible) official names for previously unnamed craters and other formations is needed!
Note: This list is not just "a list", it is also an exploration and investigation of biographies (of scientists, inventors, explorers, and all sorts of people who were pioneers).
Readers of this list shall notice the abundance of scientists who were active in the field of atmospheric optics (especially halo phenomena). One should keep in mind that many observations of the moon (and the sky around it) have a certain "supplement": observations of nocturnal halo phenomena - DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 17, 2010
An interesting alphabetic list of rather unknown astronomers (mostly observers of binary and multiple star systems) was printed on page "x" of the book Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2: Double Stars, Variable Stars, and Nonstellar Objects (edited by Alan Hirshfeld and Roger W. Sinnott).
Another interesting source is Burnham's Celestial Handbook (three volumes, Dover Publications, 1978).
It is a most enjoyable pastime to search the biographies of these astronomers in Wikipedia. The names of several of them are already included in the IAU's gazetteer of official lunar nomenclature.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 11, 2011

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- Aa (or: van der Aa)(Pieter van der Aa, 1659-1733, Dutch publisher, best known for preparing maps and atlases). Note: this name (Aa/ van der Aa) is part of a search to detect names of persons which start with "aa". According to the Dutch Oosthoeks-encyclopedie, there must have been another Aa/ van der Aa: Pieter Jan Baptist Carel Robidé van der Aa, 1832-1887, geographer and Indologist. The Dutch Wikipedia has this van der Aa as: Pierre Jean Baptiste Charles Robidé van der Aa.
- Aiken (Howard Hathaway Aiken, 1900-1973, American mathematician, pioneer in computing).
- Alvarez (Luis Walter Alvarez, 1911-1988, American experimental physicist and inventor).
- Apt (Milburn G. "Mel" Apt, 1924-1956, US test pilot).
- Arend (Sylvain Julien Victor Arend, 1902-1992, Belgian astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets).
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- Babinet (Jacques Babinet, 1794-1872, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics).
- Baekeland (Leo Hendrik Baekeland, 1863-1944, Belgian chemist, inventor of Velox photographic paper and Bakelite).
- Baird (John Logie Baird, 1888-1946, Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system).
- Baldwin (Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 1912-2010, American astronomer and pioneer of moon-related science).
- Baré (Jeanne Baré, 1740-1803, the first woman to circumnavigate the world, aboard one of de Bougainville's ships), see Bougainville in this list.
- Bartsch (Jakob Bartsch/ Jacobus Bartschius, 1600-1633, German astronomer).
- Bass (Saul Bass, 1920-1996, American graphic designer). Note: was Saul Bass an artist? If he was, his name should be added to one of the craters on planet Mercury (all craters up there are named after painters, sculptors, writers, composers).
- Bauwens (Lieven Bauwens, 1769-1822, Belgian entrepreneur and industrial spy, father of textile industry in Europe).
- Benham (Charles Edwin Benham, 1860-1929, English journalist and inventor of Benham's disc/ Benham's top).
- Bennett (Floyd Bennett, 1890-1928, American aviator who piloted Richard E. Byrd on his attempt to reach the North Pole in 1926). Note: during the days of Apollo 15's landing near Rima Hadley, a hillock west of the landingsite was unofficially named Bennett Hill, which was not named for the pilot Floyd Bennett, it was named for another Floyd Bennett who was a member of the flight dynamics team at NASA.
- Benzenberg (Johann Friedrich Benzenberg, ?-?, German astronomer)(no Wikipedia page found). See also Brandes.
- Bigourdan (Camille Guillaume Bigourdan, 1851-1932, French astronomer). Note: Bigourdan was one of Felix Chemla Lamech's names for a lunar formation (a crater?) of which the location is unknown (source: E.A.Whitaker's Mapping and Naming the Moon; Appendix P, page 228).
- Billet (Félix Billet, 1808-1882, French physician, known for his research in optics and creator of "Billet's Rose", which shows the radial positions of the first nineteen High-Order rainbows). Note: "Billet's Rose" is depicted in Carl B. Boyer's book The Rainbow, from Myth to Mathematics (Figure 66).
- Blériot (Louis Blériot, 1872-1936, French aviator, inventor, and engineer).
- Bono (Philip Bono, 1921-1993, American pioneer of reusable vertical landing single-stage to orbit launch vehicles).
- Bossart (Karel Jan Bossart, 1904-1975, Belgian pioneering rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM).
- Bottlinger (nothing seems to be known of the person called Bottlinger, after whom the curious halo-phenomenon Bottlinger's ring is named. Anyway, this name is not immediately part of this list, it is part of a quest)(see also Hastings, Hissink, Kern, Tricker).
- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville, 1729-1811, French admiral and explorer, contemporary of James Cook).
- Brandes (Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, 1777-1834, German physicist, meteorologist, astronomer). See also Benzenberg.
- Bravais (Auguste Bravais, 1811-1863, French physicist, well known for his work in crystallography). Note: Bravais's name is also known in the field of atmospheric halo-effects, because of the Bravais Arc.
- Brunel (Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806-1859, leading British civil engineer).
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- Capron (John Rand Capron, 1829-1888, English amateur scientist, astronomer, and photographer).
- Carothers (Wallace Hume Carothers, 1896-1937, American chemist, inventor of Nylon).
- Cherenkov (Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, 1904-1990, Soviet physicist, discoverer of the Cherenkov radiation).
- Cochran (Jacqueline Cochran, 1906-1980, pioneer in the field of American aviation).
- Collinder (Per Collinder, 1890-1975, Swedish astronomer).
- Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, 1930-1999, Apollo astronaut).
- Cooke (Thomas Cooke, 1807-1868, British instrument maker, he founded T.Cooke & Sons; the instrument company).
- Cooper (or G.Cooper)(Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, 1927-2004, American astronaut)(one of the original seven Mercury astronauts). Note: one of the craters on the moon's farside was already named Cooper (John Cobb Cooper, 1887-1967, American jurist, scholar).
- Corliss (William Roger Corliss, 1926-2011, American physicist and writer, compiler of the Sourcebook Project).
- Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1910-1997, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water). Note: it would be great if an unnamed crater in the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum) is officially known as Cousteau!
- Crossfield (Albert Scott Crossfield, 1921-2006, American naval officer and test pilot).
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- Dallmeyer (John Henry Dallmeyer, 1830-1883, Anglo-German optician).
- Didot, or Didot family (the Didot family of French printers, punch-cutters, and publishers). This could be a good name for a cluster of craterlets, such as the one near Gruithuisen and Gruithuisen Zeta.
- Dirac (Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 1902-1984, English theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics).
- Dollfus (Audouin Dollfus, 1924-2010, French astronomer and aeronaut). Note: asteroid N°2451 is also called Dollfus.
- Dunlap (David Dunlap, -1924, Canadian mining executive, known of the David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) in Canada). Dunlap could be a good name for the unnamed crater west of Chant, because C.A. Chant and D. Dunlap were the creators of the DDO.
- Dunlop (James Dunlop, 1793-1848, Scottish astronomer).
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- Earhart (Amelia Mary Earhart, 1897-1939, American aviation pioneer). Note: an asteroid and a corona surface formation on planet Venus are already named after her. And... a previously unknown lunar crater of 200 km diameter north of Mare Serenitatis seems to be (unofficially) called Earhart since it was discovered in March 2015. Would it ever become an officially recognized name? Or is it already recognized by the IAU?
- Eastman (George Eastman, 1854-1932, American inventor and philanthropist, inventor of roll film and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company).
- Ehricke (Krafft Arnold Ehricke, 1917-1984, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate of space colonization).
- Eisele (Donn Fulton Eisele, 1930-1987, Apollo astronaut).
- Elbrus, Mons (the most pronounced peak in the terrestrial Caucasus mountains, and so it should also be in the lunar Montes Caucasus!).
- Evans (or R.Evans)(Ronald "Ron" Ellwin Evans, 1933-1990, Apollo astronaut). Note: one of the craters on the moon's farside was already named Evans (Sir Arthur Evans, 1851-1941, British archaeologist).
- Exner (Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten, 1876-1930, Austrian meteorologist and geophysicist, co-author of the classic book Meteorologische Optik, together with Joseph M. Pernter).
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- Faget (Maxime "Max" A. Faget, 1921-2004, American engineer and designer of NASA's Mercury capsule, contributor to the Gemini/ Apollo/ and Space Shuttle programs).
- Farman (Henry Farman, 1874-1958, French aviator and aircraft designer).
- Feynman (Richard Phillips Feynman, 1918-1988, American physicist).
- Firsoff (Valdemar Axel Firsoff, 1910-1981, amateur astronomer and author of geology/space related books). Note: one of the craters on planet Mars is officially named Firsoff (this since 2010).
- Fort (Charles Hoy Fort, 1874-1932, American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena).
- Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett, 1944-2007, American businessman, aviator, sailor, adventurer, and the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon).
- Fuller (Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, 1895-1983, American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist).
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- Gilruth (Robert Rowe Gilruth, 1913-2000, American aviation and space pioneer).
- Gold (Thomas Gold, 1920-2004, Austrian-born astrophysicist).
- Greeley (Ronald Greeley, 1939-2011, American lunar and planetary scientist).
- Grosvenor (Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 1875-1966, the father of photojournalism, first full-time editor of the National Geographic Magazine).
- Guest (John Guest, 1938-2012, pioneer in planetary geologic mapping).
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- Haas (Ernst Haas, 1921-1986, Austrian born photojournalist and pioneering color photographer).
- Hargrave (Lawrence Hargrave, 1850-1915, English-Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor, aeronautical pioneer).
- Hastings (C. S. Hastings, ??-??, scientist in the field of atmospheric halo phenomena)(no Wikipedia page found). Note: one of the rather rare atmospheric halo phenomena is called the Hastings Arc.
- Hatfield (Henry Hatfield, aka "Commander Hatfield", 1921-2010, British lunar photographer)(no Wikipedia page found).
- Haussmann (Georges-Eugène, 1st Baron Haussmann, 1809-1891, French civil planner who's name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris). Thanks to Rick Evans!
- Hay (William Thomson "Will" Hay, 1888-1949, English comedian, actor, film director, and amateur astronomer).
- Helin (Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin, 1932-2009, American astronomer and principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ JPL).
- Henize (Karl Gordon Henize, 1926-1993, American astronomer, NASA astronaut, and space scientist).
- Herring (Alika Herring, -1997, Hawaiian lunar observer and contributor Sky & Telescope magazine)(no Wikipedia page found).
- Hissink (??-??, scientist in the field of atmospheric halo phenomena)(no Wikipedia page found). Note: a very rare kind of elliptic halo with small radius is called Hissink's Halo.
- Hoffleit (Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit, 1907-2007, American senior research astronomer at Yale university).
- Houbolt (John Cornelius Houbolt, 1919-2014, American aerospace engineer).
- Houston (Walter Scott "Scotty" Houston, 1912-1993, American popularizer of amateur astronomy).
- Howard (Luke Howard, 1772-1864, British manufacturing chemist, amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science, and inventor of a nomenclature system for clouds).
- Hoyle (Sir Fred Hoyle, 1915-2001, English astronomer and mathematician).
- Hughes (Howard Robard Hughes, jr., 1905-1976, American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist).
- Hynek (Josef Allen Hynek, 1910-1986, United States astronomer, professor, and investigator of unidentified flying objects).
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- Irwin (James "Jim" Benson Irwin, 1930-1991, Apollo astronaut).
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- Jan Mayen (Jan Mayen is an island near the terrestrial Spitzbergen)(on the moon it could be a new name for the "island" Piton Gamma, which is also near the Spitzbergen mountains!).
- Jenny (Hans Jenny, 1904-1972, Swiss physician and natural scientist who is considered the father of cymatics; the study of wave phenomena).
- Johnson (Amy Johnson, 1903-1941, pioneering English aviatrix).
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- Kern (H. F. A. Kern, Dutch scientist in the field of atmospheric halo phenomena)(no Wikipedia page for H. F. A. Kern found). Note: H. F. A. Kern was the discoverer of the very rare atmospheric halo phenomenon which is officially known as the Kern arc.
- Kiesler (see: Lamarr).
- Kincheloe (Iven Carl "Kinch" Kincheloe, Jr., 1928-1958, American test pilot).
- Klass (Philip Julian Klass, 1919-2005, American journalist and skeptic researcher of unidentified flying objects).
- Klushantsev (Pavel Vladimirovich Klushantsev, 1910-1999, Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and author who worked during the Soviet era).
- Kopal (Zdenek Kopal, 1914-1993, Czech astronomer). Note: asteroid N°2628 is also named Kopal.
- Kordylewski (Kazimierz Kordylewski, 1903-1981, Polish astronomer).
- Kotelnikov (Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov, 1908-2005, Russian pioneer of radar astronomy). Note: according to Carl B. Boyer's book The Rainbow, from Myth to Mathematics, there was once a Simon Kotelnikov who made a list of the first six High-Order rainbows following the Primary and Secondary rainbows (page 270).
- Kranz (Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz, 1933- , NASA Flight Director and manager). Thanks to Peter Lloyd!
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- Lamarr (or Kiesler)(Hedy Lamarr/ Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 1913-2000, Austrian born American actress and inventor of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum). Note: the name of co-inventor and avant-garde composer George Antheil should be "on its place" on planet Mercury.
- LaPaz (Lincoln LaPaz, 1897-1985, American astronomer and pioneer in the study of meteors). Note: the bright ray-crater Byrgius A was once called LaPaz by Percy Wilkins, but the IAU did not accept that name. Let's hope it will be in this century.
- Leclanché (Georges Leclanché, 1839-1882, French electrical engineer and inventor of the Leclanché cell).
- Lemstrom (Karl Selim Lemstrom, 1838-1904, Finnish investigator of Aurora-like phenomena). Note: descriptions of Selim Lemstrom's experiments (to create artificial aurorae above several mountain tops in Lapland) are included in William R. Corliss's book Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and related luminous phenomena (The Sourcebook Project, 1982). The Mystery of Professor Lemstrom.
- Leonardi (Piero Leonardi, 1908-1998, Italian geologist and author of the book Volcanoes and impact craters on the moon and Mars)(no Wikipedia page found).
- Lilienthal (Otto Lilienthal, 1848-1896, German pioneer of human aviation).
- Liljequist (Gosta Hjalmar Liljequist, 1914-1995, Swedish meteorologist). Note: G.H.Liljequist discovered the Liljequist Parhelia, a rare atmospheric halo phenomenon.
- Lissajous (Jules Antoine Lissajous, 1822-1880, French mathematician, after whom Lissajous figures are named).
- Lovi (George Lovi, 1939-1993, Hungarian-American astronomer and columnist for the Sky & Telescope magazine)(no Wikipedia page for George Lovi found)(instead, see: asteroid 5943 Lovi).
- Low (George Wilhelm Low, 1926-1984, NASA administrator and 14th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
- Lowitz (Georg Moritz Lowitz, 1722-1774, Russian astronomer and geographer). Note: the son of G.M.Lowitz (Johann Tobias Lowitz) discovered the Lowitz Arcs (a rare kind of atmospheric halo phenomenon). See also The perfect Lowitz arcs (Les Cowley's Atmospheric Optics pages).
- Lumière (Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière, 1862-1954, and Louis Jean Lumière, 1864-1948, French pioneers of cinematography).
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- Maffei (Paolo Maffei, 1926-2009, Italian astronomer and science writer).
- Mandelbrot (Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1924-2010, Franco-American mathematician).
- Marsden (Brian Geoffrey Marsden, 1937-2010, British astronomer, specialized in minor planets/ asteroids).
- Masursky (Harold "Hal" Masursky, 1922-1990, American geologist and astronomer). Note: a crater on Mars and asteroid N°2685 were already named in his honor.
- Mattei (Janet Akyuz Mattei, 1943-2004, Turkish American astronomer).
- Mayall (Margaret Mayall, 1902-1996, American astronomer).
- McAdam (John Loudon McAdam, 1756-1836, Scottish engineer and road-builder).
- McCall (Robert "Bob" McCall, 1919-2010, artist and illustrator of space/spaceflight related subjects).
- Méliès (Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, 1861-1938, French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema).
- Melotte (Philibert Jacques Melotte, 1880-1961, British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium).
- Mergenthaler (Ottmar Mergenthaler, 1854-1899, German-born American inventor of the Linotype machine) (Mergenthaler is often called "the second Gutenberg").
- Miethe (Adolf Christian Heinrich Emil Miethe, 1862-1927, German physician and pioneer of color photography).
- Mitchell (E.Mitchell) (Edgar D. Mitchell, 1930-2016, sixth Apollo astronaut on the moon).
- Mittelholzer (Walter Mittelholzer, 1894-1937, Swiss aviation pioneer).
- Molesworth (Percy Braybrooke Molesworth, 1867-1908, English amateur astronomer and skilled observer of the moon and the planets). See also the Moon-Wiki page P.B.Molesworth. Note: one of the craters on Mars is also called Molesworth.
- Moore (P.Moore) (Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore/ Patrick Moore, 1923-2012 , British amateur astronomer, popularizer, and presenter of the BBC-TV program The Sky At Night). Thanks to Peter Lloyd! Note: one of the craters on the moon's farside was already named Moore (Joseph Haines Moore, 1878-1949, American astronomer).
- Muybridge (or Muggeridge)(Eadweard J. Muybridge, 1830-1904, English photographer and pioneer of motion photography).
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- Nininger (Harvey Harlow Nininger, 1887-1986, American meteorite collector, self-taught meteoriticist and educator). About Harvey Nininger: THE FALLEN SKY; An Intimate History Of Shooting Stars, by Christopher Cokinos, Tarcher/Penguin, 2009.
- Nipkow (Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow, 1860-1940, German technician and inventor).
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- Oehmichen (Etienne Oehmichen, 1884-1955, French engineer and helicopter designer).
- O'Keefe (John Aloysius O'Keefe, 1916-2000, American planetary scientist with NASA from 1958 to 1995).
- Oort (Jan Hendrik Oort, 1900-1992, Dutch astronomer). Note: asteroid N°1691 was already named Oort.
- Opik (Ernst Julius Opik, 1893-1985, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist). Note: asteroid N°2099 was already named Opik.
- Ornstein (Leonard Salomon Ornstein, 1880-1941, Dutch physicist).
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- Paine (Thomas Otten Paine, 1921-1992, American scientist, third NASA administrator).
- Pauling (Linus Carl Pauling, 1901-1994, American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator).
- Peltier (Leslie Copus Peltier, 1900-1980, American astronomer, discoverer of comets and observer of variable stars). Note: asteroid N°3850 was already named Peltier.
- Pernter (Joseph Maria Pernter, 1848-1908, Austrian scientist, co-author of the classic book Meteorologische Optik, together with Felix M. Exner).
- Pesek (Ludek Pesek, 1919-1999, Czech space artist and illustrator of many solar system and moon related books).
- Petrone (Rocco Anthony Petrone, 1926-2006, American engineer, third director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center).
- Piccard (Auguste Antoine Piccard, 1884-1962, Swiss physicist, inventor, and explorer).
- Plateau (Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, 1801-1883, Belgian pioneer of cinematography and physicist).
- Ponnamperuma (Cyril Ponnamperuma, 1923-1994, Sri Lankan scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life).
- Post (Wiley Hardeman Post, 1898-1935, famed American aviator; the first pilot to fly solo around the world).
- Pulfrich (Carl Pulfrich, 1858-1927, German physicist, known for the Pulfrich-effect and related 3D-stereo vision).
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(Question: I wonder if Quetelet shall always be the one and only name on the moon's maps which starts with Q ).
- Quénisset (Ferdinand Quénisset, 1872-1951, French astronomer). Note: one of the craters on planet Mars is already named Quénisset.
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- Reber (Grote Reber, 1911-2002, American amateur astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy).
- Reinmuth (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, 1892-1979, German astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets). Might be the related to Reinmuth 80 (NGC 4517a), which is a galaxy in Virgo (source: Deep-Sky Name Index 2000.0, Hugh C. Maddocks).
- Rogallo (Francis Melvin Rogallo, 1912-2009, American aeronautical engineer and inventor).
- Roosa (Stuart "Stu" Allen Roosa, 1933-1994, Apollo astronaut).
- Rossiter (Richard Alfred Rossiter, 1886-1977, American astronomer). Note: date of birth seems to be erroneous, because the SKY CATALOGUE 2000.0 (alphabetic list on page "x") shows 1886, the German Wikipedia shows 1896.
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- Saari (John M. Saari, 1924-1971, investigator of lunar "hot spots"; together with Richard W. Shorthill)(no Wikipedia page for J.M.Saari found).
- Sagan (Carl Edward Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, cosmologist, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences).
- Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944, French writer and aviator). Note: an asteroid is already named after him, and because Saint-Exupéry was a writer, his name should be "on its place" on planet Mercury.
A small craterlet southeast of the landingsite of Apollo 15's LM Falcon seems to have been called Exuperay. It is not known if Exuperay is the same as Saint-Exupéry. Anyway, take a look at the bottom-right corner of this named Apollo 15 site map.
- Savart (Félix Savart, 1791-1841, French physicist, co-originator of the Biot-Savart law).
- Schaumasse (Alexandre Schaumasse, 1882-1958, French astronomer).
- Schirra (Walter Marty Schirra, 1923-2007, Apollo astronaut).
- See (Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, 1866-1962, American astronomer), mentioned in Epic Moon, pages 295, 296. (Elliot McKay See, jr., 1927-1966, American astronaut).
- Senefelder (Johann Alois Senefelder, 1771-1834, German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography; in 1796).
- Shepard (Alan Bartlett Shepard, 1923-1998, Apollo astronaut).
- Simons (David G. Simons, aerospace pioneer and helium-balloon altitude record holder, died april 2010).
- Slayton (Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton, 1924-1993, American astronaut)(one of the original seven Mercury astronauts).
- Solonevich (George Solonevich, 1915-2003, Russian illustrator of science/space books written by Otto Binder)(no Wikipedia page for George Solonevich found).
- Stapp (John Paul Stapp, 1910-1999, USAF flight surgeon and pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans).
- Stuhlinger (Ernst Stuhlinger, 1913-2008, German-born American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist).
- Swigert (John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, 1931-1982, Apollo astronaut).
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- Tazieff (Haroun Tazieff, 1914-1998, French volcanologist and geologist).
- Terlingen (Hendrik L.E.M. (Henk) Terlingen, 1941-1994, Dutch popularizer of the Apollo program).
- Tombaugh (Clyde William Tombaugh, 1906-1997, American astronomer and discoverer of the solar system's 9th planet: Pluto).
- Trankle (Eberhard Trankle, 1937-1997, scientist in the field of atmospheric halo phenomena)(no Wikipedia page found).
- Tricker (R. A. R. Tricker, ??-??, scientist in the field of atmospheric halo phenomena)(no Wikipedia page found). Note: one of the rather rare atmospheric halo phenomena is called the Tricker Arc.
- Tromholt (Sophus Tromholt, 1851-1896, Danish teacher, astrophysicist, and amateur photographer).
- Turing (Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, logician, cryptanalist, and computer scientist).
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- Umov (Nikolay Alekseevich Umov, 1846-1915, Russian physicist and mathematician, known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect).
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- van de Kamp (Peter/Piet van de Kamp, 1901-1995, Dutch astronomer).
- van der Aa (see at: Aa).
- van Monckhoven (Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven, 1834-1882, Belgian chemist, physicist, photographic researcher).
- Vehrenberg (Hans Vehrenberg, 1910-1991, German amateur astronomer and astro-photographer).
- Viscardy (Georges Viscardy, 1917- , French amateur astronomer and lunar photographer).
- von Puttkamer (Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer, 1933-2012, German-American aerospace engineer and senior NASA manager from Leipzig).
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- Wendt (Guenter F. Wendt, 1923-2010, German-American engineer, noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program). Thanks to Thomas Pinkney Davis!
- Woodward (Robert Burns Woodward, 1917-1979, American organic chemist, considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century). Thanks to John Duchek!
- Wren (Sir Christopher Wren, 1632-1723, one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history).
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- Yakovlev (Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, 1906-1989, Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer).
- Yarkovsky (Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, 1844-1902, Belarusian civil engineer who is known as the discoverer of the Yarkovsky effect and YORP effect).
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- Zamenhof (Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, 1859-1917, Russian ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto).
- Zeiss (Carl Zeiss, 1816-1888, German optician and founder of Carl Zeiss Jena/ Carl Zeiss AG).

See also the page 195 names of scientists!

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- DannyCaes DannyCaes Oct 23, 2010
Ghent - Belgium