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Latin Name

Lat

Long

Diam

Origin

La-Caille

23.8S

1.1E

67

Nicholas Louis De; French astronomer (1713-1762).

La-Condamine

53.4

N 28.2W

37

"Charles Marie De; French astronomer, physicist(1701-1774)."

La-Perouse

10.7S

76.3E

77

"Jean Francois de Galoup, Comte De La Perouse; French explorer"

Lacchini

41.7N

107.5W

58

Giovanni; Italian astronomer (1884-1967).

Lacroix

37.9S

59.0W

37

Sylvestre Francois De; French mathematician (1765-1843).

Lade

1.3S

10.1E

55

Heinrich Eduard von; German astronomer (1817-1904).

Lagalla

44.6S

22.5W

85

Giulio Cesare; Italian philosopher (1571-1624).

Lagrange

32.3S

72.8W

225

Joseph Louis; Italian mathematician (1736-1813).

Lalande

4.4S

8.6W

24

Joseph Jerome Le Francois De; French astronomer(1732-1807).

Lallemand

14.3S

84.1W

18

Andre; French astronomer (1904-1978).

Lamarck

22.9S

69.8W

100

Jean B. P. A. De M.; French natural historian (1744-1829).

Lamb

42.9S

100.1E

106

"Sir Horace; Britishmathematician, physicist (1849-1934)."

Lambert

25.8N

21.0W

30

"Johann Heinrich; German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (17"

Lame

14.7S

64.5E

84

Gabriel; French mathematician (1795-1870).

Lamech

42.7N

13.1E

13

Felix Chemla; French selenographer (1894-1962).

Lamont

4.4N

23.7E

106

John; Scottish astronomer (1805-1879).

Lampland

31.0S

131.0E

65

Carl O.; American astronomer (1873-1951).

Landau

41.6N

118.1W

214

Lev D.; Soviet physicist; Nobel laureate (1908-1968).

Lander

15.3S

131.8E

40

Richard Lemon; British explorer (1804-1834).

Landsteiner

31.3N

14.8W

6

Karl; Austrian-American pathologist; Nobel laureate (1868-1943).

Lane

9.5S

132.0E

55

"Jonathan H.; American physicist, astrophysicist (1819-1880)."

Langemak

10.3S

118.7E

97

Georgij E.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1898-1938).

Langevin

44.3N

162.7E

58

Paul; French physicist (1872-1946).

Langley

51.1N

86.3W

59

"Samuel P.; Americanastronomer, physicist(1834-1906)."

Langmuir

35.7S

128.4W

91

"Irving; American physicist, chemist; Nobel laureate (1881-1957)."

Langrenus

8.9S

61.1E

127

"Langren, Michel Florent van; Belgian selenographer, engineer (c."

Lansberg

0.3S

26.6W

38

Philippe van; Belgian astronomer (1561-1632).

Larmor

32.1N

179.7W

97

"Sir Joseph; Britishmathematician, physicist (1857-1942)."

Lassell

15.5S

7.9W

23

William; British astronomer (1799-1880).

Laue

28.0N

96.7W

87

Max T. F. von; German physicist; Nobel laureate (1879-1960).

45

"Johann; German mathematician, astronomer (1713-1781)."

Kiess

6.4S

84.0E

63

Carl Clarence; American astrophysicist (1887-1967).

Kimura

Lawrence

7.4N

43.2E

24

Ernest Orlando; American physicist; Nobel laureate (1901-1958).

Le-Gentil

74.6S

75.7W

128

Guillaume Hyazinthe; French astronomer (1725-1792).

76

Arthur S.; Americanphysicist (1876-1957); Edward S.; American as

Kira

17.6S

132.8E

3

Russian female name.

Kirch

39.2N

(1811-1877)."

Leakey

3.2S

37.4E

12

Louis Seymour Bazett; British archaeologist(1903-1972).

Leavitt

44.8S

139.3W

66

Henrietta S.; American astronomer (1868-1921).

Kirkwood

68.8N

156.1W

67

Daniel; American astronomer (1814-1895).

Klaproth

69.8S

26.0W

119

"Martin Heinrich; German chemist,

Lebesgue

5.1S

89.0E

11

Henri Leon; French mathematician (1875-1941).

Lee

30.7S

40.7W

41

"John; British astronomer, humanitarian (1783-1866)."

Leeuwenhoek

29.3S

178.7W

125

Antony van; Dutch microscopist (1632-1723).

Daniel O.; Americanrocketry scientist (1921-1964).

Knox-Shaw

5.3N

80.2E

12

Harold; British astronomer (1885-1970).

56.0W

53

Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm; German astronomer (1800-1863).

Leibnitz

38.3S

179.2E

245

"Gottfried W.; German mathematician, physicist, philosopher (1646-"

Lemaitre

61.2S

11.2N

114.6W

97

Werner; German physicist (1887-1946).

Komarov

24.7N

152.5E

78

Vladimir M.; Sovietcosmonaut (1927-1967).

Kondratyuk

 148.2E

33

Aleksej A.; Soviet cosmonaut (1934-Live).

Lepaute

33.3S

33.6W

16

Nicole Reine De La Briere; French astronomer (1723-1788).

Letronne

10.8S

42.5W

125.5W

25

B.T.; Soviet radio engineer (1912-1960).

Konstantinov

9.8N

158.4E

66

Konstantin I.; Russian rocketry scientist (1817-1871).

Kopff

17.4S

TD>

Armin O.; American astronomer (1868-1953).

Levi-Civita

23.7S

143.4E

121

"Tullio; Italian mathematician, physicist (1873-1941)."

Lewis

18.5S

113.8W

42

Gilbert N.; American che

C. A.; Soviet aeronaut (1903-1965).

Kostinskiy

14.7N

118.8E

75

Sergey K.; Soviet astronomer (1867-1937).

Koval'skij

21.9S

101.0E

49

Mari (1906-1969).

Li-Po

3.5S

90.6E

15

Chinese writer (0701-762).

Licetus

47.1S

6.7E

74

"Liceti, Fortunio; Italian physicist, philosopher, doctor (1577-165"

Krafft

16.6N

72.6W

51

"Wolfgang Ludwig; German astronomer, physicist(1743-1814)."

Kramarov

2.3S

98.8W

20

G.M.; Soviet space scientist (1887-1970).

Liebig

24.3S

48.2W

37

"Justus, Baron von Liebig; German chemist (1803-1873)."

Lilius

54.5S

6.2E

61

"Luigi Giglio; Italian doctor, philosopher, chronologist (unkn-15"

Linda

30.7N

33.4W 59

Feodosiy N.; Sovietgeodesist (1878-1948).

Kreiken

9.0S

84.6E

23

E. A.; Dutch astronomer (1896-1964).

Krieger

29.0N

 70.4N

98.8W

66

Bertil; Swedish astronomer (1895-1965).

Lindenau

32.3S

24.9E

53

Bernhard von; German astronomer (1780-1854).

Lindsay

7.0S

13.0E

32

Eric M.; Irish astronomer (1907-1974).

Linne

27.7N

11.8E

2

Carl von; Swedish botanist (1707-1778).

Liouville

2.6N

73.5E

16

Joseph; French mathematician (1809-1882).

Lippershey

25.9S

10.3W

6

Hans (Jan Lapprey); Dutch optician (unkn-1619).

Lippmann

56.0S

114.9W

160

Gabriel; French physicist; Nobel laureate (1845-1921).

Lipskiy

2.2S

179.5W

80

Yuriy N.; Soviet selenographer (1909-1978).

Litke-utke

16.8

S 123.1E

39

Fedor P.; Russian geographer (1797-1882).

Littrow

21.5N

31.4E

30

Johann Josef von; Czechoslovakian astronomer (1781-1840).

Lobachevskiy

9.9N

112.6E

84

Nikolay I.; Russianmathematician (1793-1856).

Lockyer

<

38.3N

142.1E

106

Igor' V.; Soviet nuclear physicist (1903-1960).

Loewy

22.7S

32.8W

24

Moritz; French astronomer (1833-1907).

Lohrmann

0.5S

67.2W

30

Wilhelm Gotthelf; German selenographer (1796-1840).

Lohse

13.7S

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35

Henry Wadsworth; American poet (1807-1882).

Longomontanus

49.6s

21.8W

157

"Christian Sorensen;Danish astronomer, mathematician (1562-1647)."

Lorca

24.4N

10.9E

0

Latin Name

Lat

French female name.

Louville

44.0N

46.0W

36

"Jacques D'Allonville, Chevalier De Louville; French astronomer,"

Love

6.3S

129.0E

84

"Augustus E. H.; British mathematician, geophysicist (1863-1"

Lovelace

82.3N

106.4W

54

"William R.; American doctor, space scientist (1907-1965)."

Lovell

36.8S

141.9W

34

"James A., Jr.; American astronaut (1928-Live)."

Lowell

12.9S

103.1W

66

Percival; American astronomer (1855-1916).

Lubbock

3.9S

41.8E

13

"Sir John William; British astronomer, mathematician (1803-1865)."

Lubiniezky

17.8S

23.8W

43

Stanislaus; Polish astronomer (1623-1675).

Lucian

14.3N

36.7E

7

Of Samosata; Greek writer (125-190).

Lucretius

8.2S

120.8W

63

Titus C.; Roman scientific philosopher (c. 95-55 B.C.).

Ludwig

7.7S

97.4E

23

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm; German physiologist (1816-1895).

Lundmark

39.7S

152.5E

106

Knut E.; Swedish astronomer (1889-1958).

Luther

33.2N

24.1E

9

Robert; German astronomer (1822-1900).

Lyapunov

26.3N

89.3E

66

"Aleksandr M.; Russian mathematician, engineer (1857-1918)."

Lyell

13.6N

40.6E

32

Sir Charles; Scottish geologist (1797-1875).

Lyman

64.8S

163.6E

84

Theodore; American physicist (1874-1954).

Lyot

49.8S

84.5E

132

Bernard F.; French astronomer (1897-1952).