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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Known professionally as Jim or James Peebles, Philip James Edwin Peebles is a theoretical physicist whose work helped es...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

9.82 Brilliant

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

During her doctoral research in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified unusual, regularly repeating signals in radio tele...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

9.72 Brilliant

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S. Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astrophysicist whose mathematical work transformed understanding of s...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.70 Brilliant

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Cecilia Payne

Cecilia Payne, later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, was a British-born astronomer whose 1925 doctoral thesis changed the unde...

Historical British Spectroscopy Stellar

9.65 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Polish astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski made influential contributions to the study of stars and energetic events during...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.56 Brilliant

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Claudius Ptolemy

Working in Alexandria during the second century CE, Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek-speaking astronomer whose Almagest orga...

Ancient Geocentric Alexandria Catalogs

9.55 Brilliant

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Andrea M. Ghez

American astronomer Andrea M. Ghez studies the center of the Milky Way, where observations of stellar motion reveal an e...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.55 Brilliant

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Yakov Zel'dovich

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914-1987) was a Soviet physicist whose work extended from physical chemistry and nuclear p...

Cosmology Soviet Twentieth Century Large Scale Structure

9.55 Brilliant

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Joe Taylor

Born in 1941, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist associated with precision studies of pulsars. He sh...

American Nobel Prize Late 20TH Binary Pulsar

9.49 Excellent

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Edmund Halley

Edmond Halley (1656–1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and geophysicist who served as the second Astronomer...

British Comets Proper Motion 17TH 18TH Century

9.48 Excellent

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Bernard Paczynski

Bohdan Paczyński was a prominent Polish astrophysicist who made major contributions to the study of stellar evolution, p...

Historical Theoretical Stellar Gravitational Lensing

9.47 Excellent

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Bertil Lindblad

Bertil Lindblad (1895–1965) was a Swedish astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of galactic...

Swedish Twentieth Century Milky Way Galactic Dynamics

8.74 Great

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James Binney

James Binney is a British theoretical astrophysicist whose research focuses on galactic dynamics, stellar orbits, and th...

Contemporary Theory Milky Way Galactic Dynamics

7.84 Good

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Bart Bok

Bart Bok was a prominent Dutch-American astronomer celebrated for his extensive research on the structure and dynamics o...

Dutch Twentieth Century Milky Way Nebulae

7.65 Good

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Edward Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his observational work in the late 19th and early 20th ce...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.22 Good

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Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Naomi McClure-Griffiths is an American-born radio astronomer who operates primarily in Australia, making significant con...

Modern Radio Observational Milky Way

7.16 Good

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Dante Minniti

Dante Minniti is an Argentine astronomer and professor at the Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. He is best known as the...

Modern Observational Variable Stars Milky Way

7.09 Good

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Jacobus Kapteyn

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer who lived from 1851 to 1922 and specialized in the structure and motion...

Early 20TH Century Dutch Milky Way Galactic

6.95 Fair

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Priscilla Fairfield Bok

Priscilla Fairfield Bok was an American astronomer who worked with Bart Bok on the structure of the Milky Way. Together...

History Observational Twentieth Century Milky Way

6.70 Fair

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Heidi Jo Newberg

Heidi Jo Newberg is an American astrophysicist and professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute whose research examines...

Contemporary Women Milky Way Surveys

6.31 Fair