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Cecilia Payne

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Historical British Spectroscopy Stellar

9.7 Brilliant

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Edmund Halley

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British Comets Proper Motion 17TH 18TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

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Eleanor Margaret Burbidge

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Historical British Galaxies Spectroscopy

9.4 Excellent

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Alexandre Friedmann

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9.3 Excellent

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Simon White

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Modern Cosmology British Simulations

9.1 Excellent

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Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

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Donald Lynden-Bell

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British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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David Jewitt

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Modern British Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.9 Great

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8.9 Great

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8.8 Great

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8.8 Great

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James Bradley

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8.6 Great

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Contemporary British Women Gravitational Waves

8.6 Great

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Douglas Heggie

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Contemporary British Theoretical Stellar Dynamics

8.5 Great

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Contemporary Japanese Computational Stellar Dynamics

8.5 Great

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19TH Century British Solar Spectroscopy

8.4 Great

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Paul Murdin

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Contemporary British Observational X Ray Astronomy

8.3 Great

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Ian Smail

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Contemporary British Observational Gravitational Lensing

8.3 Great

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Edward Pickering

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American Early 20TH Photometry Stellar Spectra

8.3 Great

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Rob Ivison

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Contemporary British Observational Radio Astronomy

8.2 Great