Meet the Signatories

Some people who signed the guestbook have their own observatories named after them. Some have asteroids or comets named in their honor; others got to name moon and stars themselves. Other signatories’ names only reappear hidden in the recesses of a select few books. Meet astronomers, university presidents, and Middletown residents as you jump through these biographies. See how many shaped the course of the history of science over the last century and a half. Meet some of these individuals and learn their stories—and discover whose stories they’re inextricably linked to as well.