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Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and Catholic priest whose work profoundly shaped modern cosmology. He develope...

Cosmology 20TH Century Historical Belgian

9.2 Excellent

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Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer living around the 3rd century BC. He is notable for developing a he...

Solar Ancient Greek Heliocentric

8.9 Great

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Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

Joseph H. Taylor Jr. was a 20th-century American astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio astronomy and...

Radio 20TH Century Pulsars Nobel

8.9 Great

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Al-Battani

Al-Battani was a prominent medieval Islamic scholar and astronomer. He meticulously observed the sun’s movements, creati...

Medieval Solar Islamic Tables

8.8 Great

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Karl Jansky

American radio engineer (1905–1950) who in 1932 discovered extraterrestrial radio emission from the direction of the Mil...

American 20TH Century Historical Radio Astronomy

8.7 Great

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Robert W. Wilson

Robert W. Wilson, an American radio astronomer, shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for discovering the cosmic microwave backgro...

Radio 20TH Century Nobel Cmb

8.7 Great

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George Ellery Hale

American astronomer (1868–1938) who founded Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories and discovered the magnetic fields of...

American Historical Solar Telescopes

8.6 Great

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Alastair G. W. Cameron

Alastair G. W. Cameron was a Canadian-American astrophysicist, noted for nuclear astrophysics and the giant-impact theor...

Theory 20TH Century Planetary Nucleosynthesis

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John Gatenby Bolton

John Gatenby Bolton was a British-Australian radio astronomer who identified discrete radio sources with galaxies and wa...

Australia Radio 20TH Century Quasars

8.3 Great

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Herbert Friedman

Herbert Friedman was an American physicist whose rocket experiments helped found solar X-ray astronomy and ultraviolet a...

American Solar Twentieth Century X Ray

8.1 Great

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Grote Reber

American radio engineer (1911–2002) who in 1937 built the first purpose-built parabolic radio telescope in his backyard...

American 20TH Century Historical Radio Astronomy

8.1 Great

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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer who proposed the icy dirty snowball comet model in 1950 and led Smithso...

Theory 20TH Century Solar System Comets

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George Ogden Abell

George Ogden Abell was an American astronomer who compiled the 1958 Abell catalogue of 2,712 rich galaxy clusters from P...

Catalog 20TH Century Galaxies Clusters

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Joseph Lade Pawsey

Joseph Lade Pawsey was an Australian radio astronomer at CSIRO, known for early solar and Galactic radio observations an...

Australia Radio 20TH Century Solar

7.8 Good

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Norman Lockyer

Norman Lockyer was an English astronomer who co-discovered helium in the Sun's spectrum in 1868 and founded the journal...

History Helium Solar Spectroscopy

7.7 Good

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Adriaan Blaauw

Adriaan Blaauw was a Dutch astronomer, ESO director from 1970 to 1975 and a key figure in explaining runaway stars and O...

20TH Century Stellar Associations Iau

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Edward Maunder

Edward Maunder was a British solar astronomer whose sunspot studies identified the 1645-1715 lull now called the Maunder...

History Solar Observational Nineteenth Century

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Annie Russell Maunder

Annie Russell Maunder was an Irish-British solar astronomer who helped create the 1904 butterfly diagram of sunspot lati...

History Photography Solar Nineteenth Century

7.4 Good

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Brian Marsden

Brian Marsden was a British astronomer who directed the Minor Planet Center from 1978 and became a leading authority on...

Catalog 20TH Century Comets Minor Planets

7.4 Good

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Andre-Louis Danjon

Andre-Louis Danjon was a French astronomer who directed Paris Observatory and proposed the Danjon scale for lunar-eclips...

France 20TH Century Instruments Earth Rotation

7.3 Good