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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Philip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American cosmologist at Princeton, awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

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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

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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars as a Cambridge...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the Northern Irish scientist whose 1967 pulsar discovery opened a major field in radio astr...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Claudius Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman astronomer in Alexandria whose Almagest, written about 150 CE, formalized the geocent...

Ancient Geocentric Alexandria Catalogs

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Simon White

Simon White is a British astrophysicist known for numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation and for developing...

Modern Cosmology British Simulations

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is a British astronomer at University College London notable for using gravitational lensing and deep fiel...

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer who measured the first reliable stellar parallax, for 61 Cygni, in 1838...

Parallax Nineteenth Century Stars Astrometry

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

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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

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French astronomer who discovered Saturn's ring division in 1675 and four of its...

Observational Planetary Early Modern Saturn

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Ole Romer

Ole Romer was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 used eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io to show that light travels at finite sp...

Danish Jupiter Early Modern Light Speed

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer who studied double stars and founded Pulkovo Observato...

Russian Nineteenth Century Astrometry Binary Stars

8.2 Great

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Bernard Lovell

Bernard Lovell was a British radio astronomer who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and built its 76-meter radio tele...

Radio British Observatory Twentieth Century

8.2 Great

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Nick Kaiser

Nick Kaiser is a British cosmologist known for work on weak gravitational lensing and the Kaiser effect in galaxy redshi...

Modern Cosmology British Lensing

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Martin Elvis

Martin Elvis is a British-born American astrophysicist at Harvard University highly noted for his extensive observationa...

Modern British X Ray Quasars

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Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius was a Polish astronomer in Gdansk who published detailed lunar maps in 1647 and described several cons...

Polish Lunar Early Modern Catalogs

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Mark McCaughrean

Mark McCaughrean is a British astrophysicist at the European Space Agency noted for his research on star formation and h...

Modern British Star Formation Jwst

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John Flamsteed

John Flamsteed was England's first Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1675, and produced the Historia Coelestis Britannica s...

British Observational Early Modern Catalogs

7.9 Good

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Jeremiah Horrocks

Jeremiah Horrocks was an English astronomer who predicted and observed the 1639 transit of Venus, the first recorded obs...

British Early Modern Transits Venus

7.5 Good