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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a renowned astronomer recognized for her pivotal role in discovering pulsars in 1967. Her doctor...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

9.7 Brilliant

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Shri Kulkarni

Shri Kulkarni is a Caltech astronomer specializing in modern astrophysics. His research focuses on pulsars, gamma-ray bu...

Modern Pulsars Caltech Transients

9.2 Excellent

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Joseph Taylor

Joseph Taylor is a modern astronomer recognized for his groundbreaking work on pulsars. His 1974 discovery of the Hulse-...

Modern Relativity Pulsars Nobel

9.1 Excellent

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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle was a twentieth-century British astronomer renowned for his pioneering work in radio astronomy. He fundament...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 Excellent

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Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Kaspi is an astronomer specializing in the study of pulsars and magnetars. Her research focuses on these rapidl...

Modern Women Pulsars Neutron Stars

9.0 Excellent

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Arthur Stanley Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington was a prominent British astronomer instrumental in validating Albert Einstein’s theory of gener...

Relativity Early 20TH Century British Astrophysics

8.9 Great

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Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Kulkarni is a prominent modern astronomer specializing in observational studies of pulsars supernovae and tran...

Modern Observational Pulsars Supernovae

8.9 Great

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Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

Joseph H. Taylor Jr. was a 20th-century American astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio astronomy and...

Radio 20TH Century Pulsars Nobel

8.9 Great

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was a prominent early-modern astronomer renowned for his meticulous observational work. His mo...

Observational Planetary Early Modern Saturn

8.8 Great

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Russell Hulse

Russell Hulse is a prominent astronomer recognized for his groundbreaking research on pulsars. His work with Joseph Tayl...

Modern Relativity Pulsars Nobel

8.8 Great

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Brian P. Schmidt

Brian P. Schmidt is an American-born Australian astronomer who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for supernova evidence of the...

Modern Cosmology Observational Dark Energy

8.7 Great

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Robert W. Wilson

Robert W. Wilson, an American radio astronomer, shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for discovering the cosmic microwave backgro...

Radio 20TH Century Nobel Cmb

8.7 Great

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Ibn Yunus

Ibn Yunus was an influential medieval Egyptian astronomer whose meticulous observations significantly advanced astronomi...

Medieval Observational Egyptian Zij

8.7 Great

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Allan Rex Sandage

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

American Cosmology Observational Mid 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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Imke de Pater

Imke de Pater is a Dutch planetary scientist at UC Berkeley, known for radio and infrared studies of giant planets and K...

Modern Radio Observational Planetary

8.2 Great

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Duncan Lorimer

Duncan Lorimer is a British-born astrophysicist at West Virginia University whose team reported the first fast radio bur...

Modern Radio Pulsars Fast Bursts

8.1 Great

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Aleksander Wolszczan

Aleksander Wolszczan is a Polish astronomer who, with Dale Frail, reported the first confirmed exoplanets around pulsar...

Modern Radio Observational Pulsars

8.1 Great

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Bryan Gaensler

Bryan Gaensler is an Australian astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz, known for studies of magnetars, supernova remnants and...

Modern Radio Observational Magnetism

8.1 Great

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Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Naomi McClure-Griffiths is an American-born Australian radio astronomer who discovered a new spiral arm of the Milky Way...

Modern Radio Observational Milky Way

7.8 Good

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Dale Frail

Dale Frail is a Canadian radio astronomer who, with Aleksander Wolszczan, reported the first confirmed exoplanets around...

Modern Radio Observational Pulsars

7.7 Good