Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
Author	Edited by Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, JoAnn Palmeri, Daniel W. E. Green
Language	English
Subject	Astronomy, History of Science
Genre	Reference work
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2014
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-1-4419-9917-7
Website	Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
	Includes approximately 1850 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (BEA) is a two-volume biographical dictionary, first published in 2007,^[1] with a second edition released in 2014. The work covers astronomers from all geographies, born from antiquity to mid-1918. It includes more than 1500^[2] biographies of both well-known and more obscure astronomers, produced by 410 contributors.^[3]

The encyclopedia has been published in both a print and online format by the publisher, Springer.

Editions

Hockey, Thomas A.; Virginia Trimble; Thomas R. Williams; Katherine Bracher, eds. (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. Bibcode:2007bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7. ISBN 9780387310220. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers at Google Books

References

^ Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Jamil Ragep, F. (18 September 2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-30400-7.
^ Stickland, David (2008). "Review:Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers". The Observatory. 128: 410–12. Bibcode:2008Obs...128..410.
^ Nicholson, Philip David; Bartlett, Jennifer Lynn (2020). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Bibcode:2020bea..book.....N.