Commission 26 Officers (through August 2012 or as noted) :
- President: Jose Docobo
- Vice-President: Brian Mason
- Past-President: Christine Allen
- Organizing Committee (term 2006 - 2012):
Yuri Balega
Dimitri Pourbaix
Colin Scarfe
- Organizing Committee (term 2009 - 2015):
Frederic Arenou
Marco Scardia
Vakhtang Tamazian
Commission 26 Members and Other Binary Star Astronomers:
Note: Due to privacy concerns, address information has been removed from the following list. A password-protected address list is available here. One may also find postal and email addresses using the IAU membership directory. Any Commission 26 member may also email the editor at dsl@ad.usno.navy.mil for an "uncensored" list. I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause the reader. Please let me know of errors or missing people.
Commission 26 members (last update: 10/14/2009):
Helmut A. Abt USA Javier A. Ahumada ARGENTINA Christine Allen MEXICO Manuel Andrade SPAIN Joanna P. Anosova USA Frederic Arenou FRANCE Robert William Argyle UNITED KINGDOM J. Thomas Armstrong USA Amornrat Aunwerojwit THAILAND William G. Bagnuolo, Jr. USA Charles D. Bailyn USA Yuri Yu. Balega RUSSIA Alan H. Batten CANADA Willit I. Beavers USA Pier Luigi Bernacca ITALY Andrew F. Boden USA Daniel Bonneau FRANCE Peter Brosche GERMANY Theo A. ten Brummelaar USA Jan Budaj SLOVAK REPUBLIC Peter De Cat BELGIUM Bruno Cester ITALY Wen-Ping Chen TAIWAN Paul Couteau FRANCE Roger B. Culver USA Zorica D. Cvetkovic SERBIA & MONTENEGRO Nogami Daisaku JAPAN John A. Davis AUSTRALIA Jose A. Durantez Docobo SPAIN Dijana Dominis Prester CROATIA Jean Dommanget BELGIUM Robert Dukes, Jr. USA David W. Dunham USA Diego Falceta-Goncalves BRAZIL Francis C. Fekel USA Joao Fernandes PORTUGAL Eduardo Osvaldo Ferrer ARGENTINA J. Murray Fletcher CANADA Octavi Fors SPAIN Otto G. Franz USA Laurence W. Fredrick USA R.R. Freitas-Mourao BRAZIL George D. Gatewood USA Silva Gaudenzi ITALY Edward H. Geyer GERMANY Andrea M. Ghez USA Denise Goncalves BRAZIL Simon P. Goodwin UNITED KINGDOM Gulnur Gun TURKEY Jon E. Hakkila USA Jean-Louis Halbwachs FRANCE Patrick M. Hartigan USA William I. Hartkopf USA Jinhua He CHINA William D. Heacox USA John L. Hershey USA Bambang Hidayat INDONESIA Graham Hill NEW ZEALAND Todd C. Hillwig USA Robert B. Hindsley USA Elliott Horch USA Christian A. Hummel CHILE Wolfgang Hummel GERMANY Philip A. Ianna USA Michael Ireland AUSTRALIA Hartmut Jahreiss GERMANY Davoud M. Z. Jassur IRAN Young-Beom Jeon KOREA Helen Johnston AUSTRALIA Rajka Jurdana-Sepic CROATIA Liliya Kazantseva UKRAINE Elena Kilpio RUSSIA Alexej A. Kiselyev RUSSIA Ludmila Kisseleva-Eggleton USA Spyridon Kitsionas GERMANY Wilhelm Kley GERMANY Rainer Kohler GERMANY Pavel Kroupa GERMANY Jiri Kubat CZECH REPUBLIC Patricia Lampens BELGIUM David W. Latham USA Mario G. Lattanzi ITALY William Lee MEXICO Christoph Leinert GERMANY Sebastien Lepine UNITED STATES Jeremy Lim TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA Josefina Ling SPAIN Michael Liu UNITED STATES Kerstin R. Loden SWEDEN Yuri Lyubchik UKRAINE Sarah T. Maddison AUSTRALIA Oleg Yu. Malkov RUSSIA Vladislava Marsakova UKRAINE Eduardo L. Martin SPAIN Brian D. Mason USA Robert D. Mathieu USA Harold A. McAlister USA David A. McDavid USA Ronnald Mennickent CHILE Seppo Mikkola FINLAND Maciej P. Mikolajewski POLAND Chander Mohan INDIA Christopher L. Morbey CANADA Roberto Morbidelli ITALY Pierre Jacques Morel FRANCE Ignacio Negueruela SPAIN Ralf Neuhaeusen GERMANY Dieter E.A. Nurnberger CHILE Edouard Oblak FRANCE Irapuan de Oliveira Filho BRAZIL Victor V. Orlov RUSSIAN FEDERATION Terry D. Oswalt USA Renato Pannunzio ITALY Stefan Parimucha SLOVAKIA Thomas Pauls USA Claudio B. Pereira BRAZIL Deane M. Peterson USA Monika G. Petr-Gotzens GERMANY Don Pollacco UNITED KINGDOM Georgije Popovic YUGOSLAVIA FR Dimitri Pourbaix BELGIUM Arcadio Poveda MEXICO Cristina Prieto SPAIN Jean-Louis Prieur FRANCE Karl D. Rakos AUSTRIA Bo Reipurth USA Lewis C. Roberts, Jr. USA Corinne Rossi ITALY Jane L. Russell USA Ram Sagar INDIA Guram N. Salukvadze GEORGIA Marco Scardia ITALY Colin D. Scarfe CANADA Paul Schmidtke USA Markus Scholler GERMANY Natalia A. Shakht RUSSIA Nicolai Shatsky RUSSIA Michal Simon USA Dimitris Sinachopoulos GREECE Charalambos Skokos GREECE Joseph I. Smak POLAND Allyn John Smith USA Staffan Soderhjelm SWEDEN James R. Sowell USA John W. Stein USA Michael Sterzik CHILE Laszlo Szabados HUNGARY Vakhtang S. Tamazian ARMENIA William Tango AUSTRALIA Anatoli E. Tarasov UKRAINE Paula Teixeira GERMANY Caroline E. Terquem FRANCE Andrei A. Tokovinin CHILE Lina Tomasella ITALY Guillermo Torres USA Virginia Trimble USA Wean-Shun Tsay TAIWAN Nils Turner USA Arthur R. Upgren USA Mauri J. Valtonen FINLAND William F. van Altena USA Karel A. van der Hucht NETHERLANDS Edwin Ludo van Dessel BELGIUM Martin Vanko SLOVAKIA Luiz Paulo Ribiero Vaz BRAZIL Stephanie Vennes CZECH Wang Jia-Ji PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Edward W. Weis USA Linqing Wen AUSTRALIA Robert Zavala UNITED STATES Liying Zhu CHINA Sarah L. Lippincott Zimmerman USA Alexander P. Zheleznyak UKRAINE Hans Zinnecker GERMANY
Other binary star astronomers include:
Fred C. Adams USA Andreas Alzner GERMANY Pierre Bacchus FRANCE Donald J. Barry USA William A. Baum USA Hans-Heinrich Bernstein GERMANY Ian Bonnell SCOTLAND Alan P. Boss USA Art Bradley USA Catherine Clarke UNITED KINGDOM Aleksandr N. Dadaev RUSSIA Marc Davis USA James Dick UNITED KINGDOM Vladimir Elkin UNITED KINGDOM Lars M. Freyhammer UNITED KINGDOM Marvin E. Germain USA Douglas R. Gies USA R. Gili FRANCE Shaukat N. Goderya USA George Gontcharov RUSSIA R.E.M. Griffin CANADA Roger F. Griffin UNITED KINGDOM Arsen Hajian USA J.R.W. Heintze NETHERLANDS Todd J. Henry USA Kenneth H. Hinkle USA Syuzo Isobe JAPAN Margarita Karovska USA Claud Lacy USA Victor Lanchares Barrasa SPAIN Brian Murray Lewis USA Laurence A. Marschall USA Nicole Martin FRANCE Michel Mayor SWITZERLAND Tsevi Mazeh ISRAEL Claude Meyer FRANCE Francois Mignard FRANCE Alessandro Morbidelli FRANCE Denis Mourard FRANCE Kaylene Murdoch NEW ZEALAND Rong-Shi Pan PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Christian Perrier FRANCE Andrej Pigulski POLAND Eugene Pluzhnik RUSSIA Andreas Quirrenbach USA David J. Stickland UNITED KINGDOM Laurence Taff USA Sean E. Urban USA Armand Valbousquet FRANCE Wayne H. Warren USA Nathaniel M. White USA Gary L. Wycoff USA
