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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

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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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Stan Woosley

Stan Woosley is a prominent modern American astronomer specializing in supernovae and gamma-rays. His research significa...

Modern American Supernovae Gamma Rays

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in cosmology. He significantly contributed to...

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Neil Gehrels

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Gerry Neugebauer

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American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

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Allan Sandage

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Allan Rex Sandage

American astronomer who succeeded Edwin Hubble at Palomar Observatory, spent decades refining the Hubble constant, and m...

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Lyman Spitzer Jr.

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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

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Ralph Asher Alpher

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Russell Alan Hulse

American physicist who with Joseph Taylor discovered the first binary pulsar (PSR B1913+16) in 1974, work that earned th...

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Edward Barnard

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American 19TH Century Observational Comets

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Carolyn S. Shoemaker

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Modern American Planetary Comets

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Maria Mitchell

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William Morgan

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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

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Donald Osterbrock

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Henrietta Hill Swope

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6.7 Fair