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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

2

Christian Marois

Canadian astronomer at the National Research Council of Canada who led the 2008 direct imaging of four planets orbiting...

Contemporary Canadian Exoplanets Direct Imaging

8.2 Great

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Alexei Filippenko

Alexei Filippenko is an American astronomer known for supernova research and his role in teams that found the accelerati...

Modern American Observational Supernovae

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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Paul Butler

American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution who co-developed a high-precision radial velocity technique with Geoff M...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Edward Barnard

American astronomer who in 1916 identified Barnard's Star, which holds the record for the highest proper motion of any k...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.9 Good

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Stephane Udry

Stephane Udry is a Swiss astronomer at Geneva Observatory whose HARPS team announced the super-Earth Gliese 581c around...

Modern Observational Exoplanets Stars

7.9 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

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Andrew Howard

Andrew Howard is an American astronomer known for exoplanet demographics and radial-velocity surveys that measured the f...

Modern American Exoplanets Surveys

7.6 Good

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Guillem Anglada-Escude

Guillem Anglada-Escude is a Spanish astronomer who led the Pale Red Dot team that reported Proxima Centauri b, the neare...

Modern Observational Exoplanets Radial Velocity

7.6 Good

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Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy is an American astronomer known for discovering many early exoplanets around nearby stars using Doppler s...

Modern American Exoplanets Radial Velocity

7.5 Good

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Jason Wright

Jason Wright is an American astronomer known for exoplanet research, stellar activity studies, and searches for technolo...

Modern American Exoplanets Seti

7.4 Good

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Asaph Hall

American astronomer who in 1877 discovered the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, using the 26-inch refractor at the...

American 19TH Century Observational Planetary

7.3 Good

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Robert Williams

American astronomer who as director of the Space Telescope Science Institute directed the landmark Hubble Deep Field obs...

Modern American Observational Galaxy Evolution

7.3 Good

15

Walter Adams

American astronomer and director of Mount Wilson Observatory who in 1925 spectroscopically confirmed Sirius B as a white...

American Early 20TH Century Observational Spectroscopy

7.1 Good

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Margaret Turnbull

Margaret Turnbull is an American astronomer known for catalogs of nearby habitable-star candidates used in SETI and exop...

American Exoplanets Astrobiology Current

6.9 Fair

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Henrietta Hill Swope

American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution who made key contributions to calibrating the extragalactic distance sca...

American Observational Photometry Mid 20TH Century

6.7 Fair

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Adam Burgasser

American astronomer at UC San Diego and a leading expert on brown dwarfs, contributing to the classification of L, T, an...

Modern American Observational Brown Dwarfs

6.7 Fair

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Brendan Bowler

American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for high-contrast imaging surveys that directly detect a...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

6.4 Fair

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Geoff Marcy

American astronomer who with Paul Butler discovered dozens of exoplanets in the 1990s and 2000s, making him one of the m...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

5.5 Mediocre