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Andrea M. Ghez

American astronomer Andrea M. Ghez studies the center of the Milky Way, where observations of stellar motion reveal an e...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.55 Brilliant

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Joe Taylor

Born in 1941, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist associated with precision studies of pulsars. He sh...

American Nobel Prize Late 20TH Binary Pulsar

9.49 Excellent

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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

9.42 Excellent

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Charles Bennett

Charles L. Bennett is an American observational cosmologist who served as principal investigator for NASA's Wilkinson Mi...

American Contemporary Observational Cmb

9.42 Excellent

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William Herschel

William Herschel was an eighteenth-century astronomer renowned for his pioneering work with telescopes. He significantly...

Eighteenth Century Nebulae Uranus Telescopes

9.32 Excellent

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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

9.25 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke was a prominent American astronomer who led research at Princeton University focused on cosmology. His t...

American Cosmology Historical Cmb

9.25 Excellent

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Peter Goldreich

Peter Goldreich is an American theoretical astrophysicist recognized for his extensive research into the dynamics of pla...

Modern American Theoretical Astrophysics Planetary Dynamics

9.18 Excellent

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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

9.15 Excellent

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Charles Steidel

Charles Steidel is an American observational astronomer and the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California...

American Contemporary Observational Galaxies

9.12 Excellent

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Edward Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919) was an American astronomer who served as director of the Harvard College Observator...

American Early 20TH Photometry Stellar Spectra

8.28 Great

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William Huggins

William Huggins was a British astronomer who helped establish astronomical spectroscopy during the nineteenth century. W...

19TH Century Historical English Spectroscopy

7.82 Good

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Max Wolf

Max Wolf was a German astronomer who helped establish photography as a systematic method for discovering and studying fa...

Germany Photography 19TH Century Asteroids

7.53 Good

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Edward Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his observational work in the late 19th and early 20th ce...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.22 Good

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William Parsons (Lord Rosse)

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), was an Irish astronomer who built the 72-inch reflecting telescope calle...

Telescope 19TH Century Observational Irish

6.92 Fair

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Asaph Hall

Asaph Hall III was a 19th-century American astronomer primarily associated with the United States Naval Observatory in W...

American 19TH Century Observational Planetary

6.75 Fair

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Donald Osterbrock

Donald Osterbrock (1924–2007) was an American astronomer who served as the director of the Lick Observatory in Californi...

American Spectroscopy Nebulae Mid 20TH Century

6.74 Fair

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Simon Newcomb

Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician whose work helped establish precise numer...

American 19TH Century Planetary Celestial Mechanics

6.63 Fair

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Dorothea Klumpke

Dorothea Klumpke was an American-born astronomer who worked in France and became the first woman to receive a doctorate...

American 19TH Century Observational Pioneering Woman

5.92 Mediocre

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Lewis Boss

Lewis Boss was an American astronomer who lived from 1846 to 1912 and directed the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New Yor...

American 19TH Century Observational Star Catalog

5.90 Mediocre