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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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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

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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Sheperd Doeleman

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Modern Radio Black Holes Eht

8.4 Great

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Meg Urry

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Modern Women Black Holes Agn

8.4 Great

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Mike Brown

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American Contemporary Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.4 Great

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Nergis Mavalvala

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Modern Women Gravitational Waves Ligo

8.3 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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Feryal Ozel

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Modern Women Black Holes Neutron Stars

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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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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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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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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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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Janna Levin

American theoretical cosmologist at Barnard College, Columbia University, known for research on black holes, gravitation...

Modern American Theoretical Gravitational Waves

7.0 Good