swap_horiz Gerard Kuiper Alternatives

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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist whose 1930 Chandrasekhar limit explained the maximum mass of stab...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer at Princeton University notable for his pioneering work on gravitational microl...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

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Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation in the 1920s and proposed the distant comet res...

Dutch Twentieth Century Galactic Oort Cloud

9.4 Excellent

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge was a British-American astrophysicist and first author of the 1957 B2FH paper explaining how star...

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.4 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer was an American astrophysicist who proposed a space telescope in 1946 and led work on plasma physics and i...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who independently plotted stellar luminosity against spectral type in 19...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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Willy Fowler

Willy Fowler was an American nuclear astrophysicist who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for explaining how elements form ins...

Twentieth Century Nucleosynthesis Stellar Nobel

9.1 Excellent

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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer who developed aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics f...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 Excellent

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a Persian astronomer who founded the Maragha observatory in 1259 and devised the Tusi couple ge...

Medieval Islamic Planetary Models

8.9 Great

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Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a British theoretical astrophysicist who proposed in 1969 that quasars are powered by accretion o...

British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was an American physicist who advanced tests of general relativity and helped motivate the 1965 search for...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

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David Jewitt

David Jewitt is a British-American astronomer who, with Jane Luu, discovered 1992 QB1, the first known Kuiper Belt objec...

Modern British Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.9 Great

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Michael Brown

Michael Brown is an American Caltech astronomer whose team's discovery of Eris helped trigger Pluto's 2006 reclassificat...

Modern American Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

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Jane Luu

Jane Luu is a Vietnamese-American astronomer who, with David Jewitt, discovered 1992 QB1 and helped establish the Kuiper...

Modern Planetary Women Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

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Eugene Shoemaker

Eugene Shoemaker was an American geologist and planetary scientist who founded astrogeology and co-discovered Comet Shoe...

American Planetary Twentieth Century Impacts

8.7 Great

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Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-American astronomer who in 1963 identified 3C 273 as a quasar, showing it had a large cosmol...

Dutch Twentieth Century Redshift Quasars

8.6 Great

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Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory in Arizona in 1930 through photogra...

American Planetary Twentieth Century Pluto

8.3 Great

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Chad Trujillo

Chad Trujillo is an American astronomer who co-discovered Eris, Sedna, and other trans-Neptunian objects while studying...

Modern American Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.2 Great

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Carolyn Shoemaker

Carolyn Shoemaker was an American astronomer who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993 and became a leading disco...

Planetary Twentieth Century Women Comets

7.9 Good

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Bart Bok

Bart Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer known for work on the Milky Way and Bok globules, small dark nebulae linked to...

Dutch Twentieth Century Milky Way Nebulae

7.7 Good