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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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Simon White

Simon White is a British astronomer specializing in modern cosmology. His research focuses on creating detailed numerica...

Modern Cosmology British Simulations

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis was a prominent British astronomer specializing in galaxy evolution. His research utilized gravitational l...

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 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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David Jewitt

David Jewitt is a modern British astronomer specializing in planetary science. His research focuses on the outer solar s...

Modern British Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.9 Great

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Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington was a prominent British astronomer instrumental in validating Albert Einstein’s theory of gener...

Relativity Early 20TH Century British Astrophysics

8.9 Great

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Volker Springel

German astrophysicist known for developing the GADGET cosmological simulation code and leading the Illustris and Illustr...

German Contemporary Cosmology Simulations

8.8 Great

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Frans Pretorius

South African-Canadian physicist at Princeton University who in 2005 achieved the first successful numerical relativity...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Black Holes Numerical Relativity

8.8 Great

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James Bradley

James Bradley was an English astronomer who discovered stellar aberration in 1728, providing evidence for Earth's motion...

British Early Modern Astrometry Aberration

8.6 Great

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Meg Urry

Meg Urry is an American astrophysicist at Yale, known for active galactic nuclei, black-hole growth, and service as AAS...

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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Peter Meszaros

Hungarian-American astrophysicist at Penn State who co-developed the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts, providing the f...

Contemporary High Energy Hungarian American Gamma Ray Bursts

8.3 Great

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Ken Nomoto

Japanese astrophysicist at the University of Tokyo known for foundational theoretical models of Type Ia and core-collaps...

Contemporary Japanese Nucleosynthesis Supernovae

8.3 Great

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Martin Elvis

Martin Elvis is a British-born American astrophysicist at Harvard University highly noted for his extensive observationa...

Modern British X Ray Quasars

8.2 Great

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George Efstathiou

British-Greek cosmologist at Cambridge University known for foundational work on large-scale cosmic structure and for le...

Contemporary Cosmology Dark Energy Cmb

8.2 Great

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Eliot Quataert

American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University known for work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, black hole...

American Contemporary Galactic Center Accretion

8.2 Great

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Christian Marois

Canadian astronomer at the National Research Council of Canada who led the 2008 direct imaging of four planets orbiting...

Contemporary Canadian Exoplanets Direct Imaging

8.2 Great

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Michiel van der Klis

Dutch astronomer at the University of Amsterdam known for discovering kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron s...

Contemporary Dutch Neutron Stars X Ray Binaries

8.2 Great

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Thomas Marsh

British astronomer at the University of Warwick known for co-developing Doppler tomography and for observational studies...

Contemporary British Gravitational Waves Binary Stars

7.2 Good

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Mariano Mendez

Argentine-Dutch astrophysicist at the University of Groningen known for X-ray timing and spectroscopic studies of accret...

Contemporary Neutron Stars X Ray Binaries X Ray Bursts

6.5 Fair