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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer was an American astrophysicist who proposed a space telescope in 1946 and led work on plasma physics and i...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who independently plotted stellar luminosity against spectral type in 19...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering 51 Pegasi b, the first ex...

Modern Exoplanets Nobel Radial Velocity

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was an American physicist who advanced tests of general relativity and helped motivate the 1965 search for...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

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Neil Gehrels

Neil Gehrels was an American astrophysicist at NASA who notably served as the principal investigator for the Swift Gamma...

Modern American Space Gamma Rays

8.9 Great

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Gerry Neugebauer

Gerry Neugebauer was an American astronomer at Caltech notable for his pioneering work in infrared astronomy and leading...

American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.9 Great

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Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage was an American astronomer who refined the Hubble constant and helped identify quasars while working at Mo...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.8 Great

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Jeremiah Ostriker

Jeremiah Ostriker is an American astrophysicist whose work shaped modern ideas on dark matter, intergalactic gas, and ga...

Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

8.8 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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John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin highly noted for his foundational observati...

Modern American Black Holes Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer who used globular clusters in 1918 to place the Sun away from the Milky Way's...

American Twentieth Century Clusters Galactic

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Eugene Shoemaker

Eugene Shoemaker was an American geologist and planetary scientist who founded astrogeology and co-discovered Comet Shoe...

American Planetary Twentieth Century Impacts

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William Borucki

William Borucki is an American space scientist who led NASA's Kepler mission, launched in 2009 to find exoplanets by mea...

Modern Space Exoplanets Kepler

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Icko Iben

Icko Iben was an American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, known for stellar evolution theory and awarded t...

American Evolution Twentieth Century Stellar

8.7 Great

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Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton was a prominent American physicist at Caltech noted for designing innovative telescopes and conducting e...

American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.7 Great

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James Head

James Head is an American planetary geologist at Brown University, known for Apollo lunar landing-site work and studies...

Modern American Geology Planetary

8.6 Great

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Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft was an American astronomer and former Lick Observatory director, known for the Kraft break in stellar rotat...

Modern American Spectroscopy Stellar

8.6 Great

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R. Brent Tully

R. Brent Tully is an American astronomer at the University of Hawaii notable for co-developing the Tully-Fisher relation...

Modern American Galaxies Distance Scale

8.6 Great

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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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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