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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch astrochemist at Leiden Observatory, awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize for work on molecules in...

Modern Women Star Formation Astrochemistry

9.1 Excellent

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Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist at McGill known for pulsars and magnetars, and she won the 2021 Shaw Prize i...

Modern Women Pulsars Neutron Stars

9.0 Excellent

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

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Medieval Islamic Planetary Models

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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Maria Zuber

Maria Zuber is an American geophysicist at MIT, principal investigator of NASA's GRAIL lunar gravity mission and first w...

Modern Planetary Women Geophysics

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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Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco is an American planetary scientist who led the Cassini imaging team at Saturn and helped discover several...

Modern Planetary Women Saturn

8.7 Great

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Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Kuiper was a Dutch-American planetary astronomer who discovered Miranda in 1948 and Nereid in 1949 and studied th...

Dutch Planetary Twentieth Century Kuiper Belt

8.4 Great

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Heidi Hammel

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Modern Planetary Women Outer Planets

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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Linda Spilker

Linda Spilker is an American planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who served as Cassini project scien...

Modern Planetary Women Saturn

8.1 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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Bethany Ehlmann

Bethany Ehlmann is an American planetary geologist, known for Mars mineral spectroscopy and as principal investigator of...

Modern Planetary Mars Women

7.9 Good

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Emily Lakdawalla

Emily Lakdawalla is an American planetary geologist and science writer, noted for The Planetary Society work and a 2011...

Modern Public Planetary Women

7.5 Good

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Pascale Ehrenfreund

Pascale Ehrenfreund is an Austrian astrobiologist and space-policy leader, former DLR chair and COSPAR president elected...

Modern Planetary Women Astrobiology

7.5 Good

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Sara Russell

Sara Russell is a British planetary scientist at London's Natural History Museum, known for meteorite research and OSIRI...

Modern Planetary Women Meteorites

7.4 Good

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Diana Valencia

Diana Valencia is a Colombian planetary scientist whose 2007 work modeled super-Earth interiors and helped define planet...

Modern Planetary Women Exoplanets

7.1 Good