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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work on stellar evolution and black...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez is a prominent American astronomer specializing in research at the galactic center of our galaxy, the Mil...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.6 Brilliant

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Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Sunyaev is a prominent modern astronomer specializing in cosmology and the study of galaxy clusters. His research...

Modern Cosmology Clusters X Ray

9.2 Excellent

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Rashid Alievich Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a prominent Russian astrophysicist specializing in contemporary cosmology. His work fundament...

Russian Contemporary Cosmology X Ray

9.2 Excellent

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Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a twentieth-century British astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work on galactic structure...

British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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John Kormendy

John Kormendy is a modern American astronomer specializing in the study of galaxies and their central supermassive black...

Modern American Black Holes Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Volker Springel

Volker Springel is a German astronomer recognized for pioneering work in simulating the universe’s evolution. His GADGET...

German Contemporary Cosmology Simulations

8.8 Great

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Frans Pretorius

Frans Pretorius is an astronomer specializing in gravitational waves and black holes. His work focuses on numerical rela...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Black Holes Numerical Relativity

8.8 Great

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley was a pioneering twentieth-century American astronomer. Her meticulous analysis of globular clusters prov...

American Twentieth Century Clusters Galactic

8.7 Great

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Fiona Harrison

Fiona Harrison is a modern astronomer specializing in X-ray astronomy. She leads the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Arr...

Modern Space Women X Ray

8.6 Great

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Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi was a twentieth-century Italian astronomer specializing in cosmic rays. His significant contribution involve...

Italian Twentieth Century X Ray Cosmic Rays

8.5 Great

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Harvey Tananbaum

Harvey Tananbaum is a prominent American astronomer specializing in x-ray astronomy. He led the Chandra X-ray Center for...

Modern American X Ray Chandra

8.5 Great

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James Binney

James Binney is a British astrophysicist at Oxford, known for galactic dynamics and the 1988 textbook Galactic Dynamics...

Contemporary Theory Milky Way Galactic Dynamics

8.5 Great

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Sheperd Doeleman

Sheperd Doeleman is a prominent astronomer specializing in radio astronomy and the study of black holes. He led the deve...

Modern Radio Black Holes Eht

8.4 Great

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Meg Urry

Meg Urry is a prominent astronomer specializing in active galactic nuclei and black hole growth. Her research significan...

Modern Women Black Holes Agn

8.4 Great

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Mike Brown

American astronomer at Caltech who co-discovered the dwarf planet Eris and numerous trans-Neptunian objects, directly pr...

American Contemporary Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.4 Great

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Manuela Campanelli

Italian-American physicist at Rochester Institute of Technology who co-developed the moving punctures method enabling st...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Italian American Black Holes

8.0 Great

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Megan Donahue

Megan Donahue is an American astronomer at Michigan State University, known for galaxy-cluster research and AAS presiden...

Modern Women Clusters X Ray

7.9 Good

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Sidney van den Bergh

Sidney van den Bergh is a Dutch-Canadian astronomer, known for Local Group studies and the 1959 DDO catalogue of dwarf g...

Contemporary Canada Galaxies Clusters

7.6 Good

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France A. Córdova

France A. Córdova is an American astrophysicist who served as the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF)...

American Contemporary Space X Ray

7.1 Good