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Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez is a prominent American astronomer specializing in research at the galactic center of our galaxy, the Mil...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.6 Brilliant

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John Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) was an American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the theor...

American Theoretical General Relativity Mid Late 20TH

9.6 Brilliant

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Joe Taylor

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist born in 1941 who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Russ...

American Nobel Prize Late 20TH Binary Pulsar

9.5 Brilliant

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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

9.4 Excellent

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Charles Bennett

Charles L. Bennett is an American observational cosmologist who served as principal investigator for NASA's Wilkinson Mi...

American Contemporary Observational Cmb

9.4 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

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American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

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American Cosmology Historical Cmb

9.3 Excellent

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R. Paul Butler

R. Paul Butler is an American astronomer known for developing highly precise radial-velocity methods used to detect plan...

Modern American Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.3 Great

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Paul Butler

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American Contemporary Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Andrew Howard

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Modern American Exoplanets Surveys

7.6 Good

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Geoffrey Marcy

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Modern American Exoplanets Radial Velocity

7.5 Good

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Joshua Winn

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American Contemporary Transit Exoplanets

7.2 Good

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Ben Zuckerman

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American Seti Stellar Evolution Debris Disks

7.1 Good

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Margaret Turnbull

Margaret Turnbull is an American astronomer and astrobiologist whose work examines nearby stars as possible hosts for ha...

American Exoplanets Astrobiology Current

6.9 Fair

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Heather Knutson

Heather Knutson is an American astronomer and professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies exoplanet...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Atmospheres

6.8 Fair

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Jonathan Fortney

Jonathan Fortney is an American planetary scientist and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Cal...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Atmospheres

6.8 Fair

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Alan Boss

Alan Boss is an American astrophysicist at Carnegie Institution for Science whose work examines how stars and planets fo...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Planet Formation

6.8 Fair

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Jason Wang

Jason Wang is an astronomer specializing in observational astronomy, particularly in the direct imaging of exoplanets. D...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

6.6 Fair

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Brendan Bowler

Brendan Bowler is an American astronomer affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on dire...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

6.4 Fair

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Geoff Marcy

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Modern American Observational Exoplanets

5.5 Mediocre