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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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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a twentieth-century Polish astronomer who made significant contributions to astrophysics. His resea...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge fundamentally advanced our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic chemical enrichment. H...

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.4 Excellent

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Vesto Slipher

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Twentieth Century Galaxies Spectroscopy Redshift

8.9 Great

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Walter Baade

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German Twentieth Century Stellar Distance Scale

8.8 Great

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Allan Sandage

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American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.8 Great

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R. Brent Tully

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Modern American Galaxies Distance Scale

8.6 Great

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John Bahcall

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8.6 Great

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8.3 Great

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8.1 Great

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History Galaxies Nineteenth Century Nebulae

8.1 Great

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7.8 Good

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Minoru Oda

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7.6 Good

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Patrick Moore

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History Lunar Observational Twentieth Century

7.5 Good

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7.3 Good

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History Observational Twentieth Century Milky Way

7.3 Good

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Marc Aaronson

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20TH Century Infrared Galaxies Distance Scale

7.2 Good

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Halton Arp

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6.9 Fair

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6.9 Fair

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6.9 Fair