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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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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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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

9.42 Excellent

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Charles Bennett

Charles L. Bennett is an American observational cosmologist who served as principal investigator for NASA's Wilkinson Mi...

American Contemporary Observational Cmb

9.42 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American astronomer renowned for his pioneering research into interstellar space and plasma phy...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.25 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke was a prominent American astronomer who led research at Princeton University focused on cosmology. His t...

American Cosmology Historical Cmb

9.25 Excellent

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Peter Goldreich

Peter Goldreich is an American theoretical astrophysicist recognized for his extensive research into the dynamics of pla...

Modern American Theoretical Astrophysics Planetary Dynamics

9.18 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was a twentieth-century American astronomer whose pioneering work fundamentally reshaped our unders...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.15 Excellent

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a nineteenth-century German astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work in astrometry....

Parallax Nineteenth Century Stars Astrometry

8.86 Great

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian astronomer renowned for his meticulous wor...

Russian Nineteenth Century Astrometry Binary Stars

8.19 Great

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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986) was a Persian astronomer who worked in Isfahan under the Buyid dynasty. His Book of Fixe...

History Catalog Medieval Islamic

7.93 Good

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) was an American observational astronomer who joined the staff of Lick Observatory in...

History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

7.69 Good

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Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer who, in 1847, discovered a comet subsequently named "Miss Mitchell's Comet." T...

American Women Comets Nineteenth Century

7.67 Good

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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, was a 19th-century Anglo-Irish astronomer and telescope builder based at Birr Castle...

History Galaxies Nineteenth Century Nebulae

7.47 Good

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Robert Burnham Jr.

Robert Burnham Jr. was an American astronomer best known for his extensive work at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,...

American Catalog Historical Popularizer

7.35 Good

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Norman Lockyer

Norman Lockyer was an English astronomer and science journalist who made significant discoveries in solar spectroscopy d...

History Helium Solar Spectroscopy

7.10 Good

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Edward Maunder

Edward Walter Maunder was a British astronomer whose work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, concentrated on sunspots...

History Solar Observational Nineteenth Century

7.03 Good

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Seth Carlo Chandler

Seth Carlo Chandler was an American astronomer best known for identifying a periodic variation in the position of Earth'...

History Variable Stars Nineteenth Century Astrometry

6.97 Fair

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Annie Russell Maunder

Annie Russell Maunder was an Irish-British astronomer known for her contributions to solar observation and sunspot resea...

History Photography Solar Nineteenth Century

6.77 Fair

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Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Margaret Lindsay Huggins was an Irish-born astronomer and scientific photographer who worked closely with William Huggin...

History Photography Spectroscopy Stellar

6.61 Fair