Asteroids named after people called Alfred
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(7750) McEwen
Named in honor of Alfred McEwen for his significant contributions to planetary geology in the fields of photogeology, photometry, spectroscopy, photoclinometry, instrument calibration and mission planning. His research has involved diverse topics concerning the earth, the moon, Mars, minor planets, Galilean satellites and outer planets. He has been (or is) a member of science teams on Cassini, Galileo, Clementine and Mars Global Surveyor. Citation prepared by M. S. Robinson at the request of C. S. Shoemaker.Discovered 18 August 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M., Palomar
(8282) Delp
Named in memory of the German theologian Alfred Delp (1907-1945). Beginning in 1942, he was a member of the illegal “Kreisauer Kreis”, a group of political conservatives who worked to eliminate the Nazi regime. With this group, Delp collaborated on a first draft of a Christian social order for his country. Following the 1944 attempt on the fascist leader's life, he was condemned to death and executed in February 1945.Discovered 10 September 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(9683) Rambaldo
Alfred E. Rambaldo (1879-1911), born on the island of Java, did extensive research on the upper layers of the atmosphere. He was also a great promoter of aviation, especially balloons/airships in the Netherlands and in the Dutch East Indies, where he died during a balloon accident. The name was suggested by W. A. Fröger.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(11422) Alilienthal
Alfred Lilienthal (1889-1970) studied in England and was a businessman in Berlin during the 1930s. He spent the 1940s in Shanghai.Discovered 10 June 1999 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(11519) Adler
Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term “inferiority feeling” (inferiority complex) into psychology: mental health is characterized by reason and social interest, mental disorder by inferiority, self concern and superiority over others”. In 1934 the Austrian government closed his 30 clinics.Discovered 8 April 1991 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(11765) Alfredfowler
Alfred Fowler (1868-1940) was a British astrophysicist who measured spectral lines in the laboratory, the earth's atmosphere, comets and stars. He was the first general secretary of the International Astronomical Union.Discovered 17 October 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(11769) Alfredjoy
Alfred H. Joy (1882-1973) was an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1915 to 1973 who measured spectroscopic parallaxes and radial velocities of stars and studied variable stars. He invented the T Tauri classification.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(12057) Alfredsturm
German amateur astronomer Alfred Sturm (b. 1924) was one of the founders and has been president of the Starkenburg Observatory since its beginnings in 1970. Sturm is heavily involved in astronomical public education.Discovered 18 February 1998 by Starkenburg, Heppenheim
(13058) Alfredstevens
Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) was a Belgian painter with a preference for portraying graceful female subjects, e.g., Salomè (1888). His impressionist friends envied him for his successful paintings, but his style was too realistic for him to be considered an impressionist.Discovered 19 November 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(13672) Tarski
Alfred Tarski (1902-1983), Polish-born American mathematician and logician and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, made important contributions to algebra, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory and metamathematics.Discovered 30 May 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(14331) Alyankovic
Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic (b. 1959) is an American musician, songwriter and actor. Generations of scientists have been inspired by his comedic musical works, including “It’s All About the Pentiums” and “White and Nerdy”.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
(24907) Alfredhaar
Alfred Haar (1885-1933) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked on real and complex analysis and the calculus of variations. His fame rests mostly on the establishment of a measure on locally compact groups, now referred to as the Haar measure.Discovered 4 February 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(29227) Wegener
German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) created the theory of continental drift, which explained even the climates of prehistoric times and was verified later by geotectonics. A participant in several polar expeditions, he perished on the Greenland ice sheet.Discovered 29 February 1992 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(30778) Doblin
German narrative writer Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) originated from a Jewish merchant family. A doctor by profession, he lived in exile in France and the U.S. during 1933-1945. From his extensive literary work best known are his novels Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) and Babylonische Wanderung (1934).Discovered 29 September 1987 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(30836) Schnittke
Alfred Garriyevich Schnittke (1934-1998) was a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory during 1962-1972. He combined in his many-sided work elements of heterogeneous styles, which he aptly altered and placed against one another. This procedure, which he called “polystylism”, led to a great musical impression.Discovered 15 January 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(33137) Strejcek
Alfred Strejček (b. 1941) is a Czech actor, moderator, musician, screenwriter, narrator, reciter and professor of artistic rhetoric. His voice is loved by television viewers (usually narrating nature documentaries) and radio listeners (classical music) in the Czech and Slovak Republics.Discovered 20 February 1998 by Galad, A., Pravda, A., Modra
(44456) Vidal-Madjar
Alfred Vidal-Madjar (b. 1942) is a French observational astrophysicist. He participated in the first detection of a microlensing event, made the first detection of deuterium in the interstellar medium, discovered the first evaporating exoplanet and proposed the existence of exocomets in the β Pictoris system.Discovered 11 November 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
(128585) Alfredmaria
Alfred Ries (b. 1939) and Maria Ries (b. 1946) are the parents of the discoverer.Discovered 18 August 2004 by W. Ries, Altschwendt
(137632) Ramsauer
Alfred Ramsauer (b. 1928) has been a member of the Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft since 1952.Discovered 26 November 1999 by E. Meyer, Linz
(151242) Hajos
Hungarian swimmer and architect Alfréd Hajós (1878-1955) was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary. In the 1896 Games he won the 100-meter and 1200-meter freestyle. The best known sports facility named for him is the swimming stadium on Margitsziget in Budapest.Discovered 11 January 2002 by Sarneczky, K., Heiner, Z., Piszkesteto
(189000) Alfredkubin
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) is considered an important representative of expressionism. His work consisted particularly of partially colored drawings full of dark symbolism.Discovered 9 May 2008 by R. Gierlinger, Gaisberg
(227218) Renyi
Alfréd Rényi (1921-1970) was a Hungarian mathematician, who worked mostly in probability theory, as well as combinatorics, graph theory and number theory. In 1950, he founded the Mathematics Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, now bearing his name, and directed it until his early death.Discovered 5 September 2005 by K. Sarneczky, Piszkesteto
(230691) Van Vogt
Alfred Elton Van Vogt (1912-2000) was a Canadian-born science-fiction writer. The discoverer's favorite stories are the three novels based on General Semantics: The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null-A and The Null-A Three, together with The Voyage of The Space Beagle, published in 1950.Discovered 18 October 2003 by B. Christophe, Saint-Sulpice
(230765) Alfbester
Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was an American science-fiction writer. He won the first Hugo award in 1953 for the novel The Demolished Man. The discoverer's favorite novel is the story of Gulliver Foyle in The Stars My Destination, published in 1955.Discovered 15 December 2003 by B. Christophe, Saint-Sulpice
(475080) Jarry
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) was a French poet, novelist, writer and playwright. His play Ubu Roi is often cited as a forerunner of Dada and the Surrealist movement of the 1920s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of “pataphysics”, the science of imaginary solutions, which involves the destruction by the absurd of reason and language.Discovered 26 October 2005 by J.-C. Merlin, Nogales