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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

9.2 Excellent

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Frank Shu

Frank Shu is an American astronomer recognized for his significant contributions to understanding galaxy structure and s...

American Stellar Current Galactic

9.1 Excellent

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Icko Iben

Icko Iben was a prominent American astronomer specializing in stellar evolution during the twentieth century. His work s...

American Evolution Twentieth Century Stellar

8.7 Great

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Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in spectroscopy. He made significant contribu...

Modern American Spectroscopy Stellar

8.6 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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Martin Schwarzschild

Martin Schwarzschild was an American astronomer recognized for his pioneering work modeling the evolution of stars. His...

American Evolution Twentieth Century Stellar

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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Adam Burrows

American astrophysicist at Princeton University known for theoretical models of core-collapse supernovae, brown dwarf co...

American Contemporary Supernovae Exoplanet Atmospheres

8.2 Great

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George Wallerstein

George Wallerstein was a twentieth-century American astronomer specializing in stellar composition analysis. His signifi...

American Twentieth Century Stellar Abundances

8.1 Great

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George Herbig

George Herbig was a twentieth-century American astronomer specializing in star formation. He is particularly recognized...

American Twentieth Century Stellar Star Formation

8.0 Great

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Paul Butler

American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution who co-developed a high-precision radial velocity technique with Geoff M...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Lars Bildsten

American theoretical astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute known for work on thermonuclear X-ray bursts,...

American Contemporary Neutron Stars X Ray Bursts

8.0 Great

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Jesse Greenstein

American astronomer at Caltech who was a pioneer of stellar spectroscopy and among the first to study the spectra of qua...

American Spectroscopy Stellar Quasars

7.4 Good

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Konstantin Batygin

Konstantin Batygin is a Russian-American astronomer at Caltech who co-proposed the existence of Planet Nine in the solar...

American Contemporary Planetary Dynamics

7.4 Good

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Alyssa A. Goodman

Alyssa A. Goodman is an American astronomer at Harvard University noted for researching star formation and founding the...

American Contemporary Mapping Star Formation

7.3 Good

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Mark Showalter

Mark Showalter is a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute known for discovering several moons around Uranus and Nep...

American Contemporary Planetary Rings

7.2 Good

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Walter Adams

American astronomer and director of Mount Wilson Observatory who in 1925 spectroscopically confirmed Sirius B as a white...

American Early 20TH Century Observational Spectroscopy

7.1 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

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Frederick Lamb

American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois known for theoretical models of accretion torques in X-ray pulsars...

American Contemporary Theoretical Neutron Stars

7.0 Good

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Tabetha S. Boyajian

Tabetha S. Boyajian is an American astronomer who led the discovery of the anomalously fluctuating KIC 8462852, known as...

American Contemporary Stellar Photometry

6.9 Fair