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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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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer who developed aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics f...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 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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Sandra Faber

Sandra Faber is an American astronomer known for galaxy evolution research and co-discovering the Faber-Jackson relation...

Modern Women Galaxies Telescopes

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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Nancy Grace Roman

Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer and NASA executive known as the mother of Hubble for her role in creating t...

Space Twentieth Century Women Hubble

8.8 Great

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Jane Luu

Jane Luu is a Vietnamese-American astronomer who, with David Jewitt, discovered 1992 QB1 and helped establish the Kuiper...

Modern Planetary Women Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

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Francoise Combes

Francoise Combes is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and College de France, known for galaxy dynamics an...

Modern Women Galaxies Molecular Gas

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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Marcia Rieke

Marcia Rieke is an American astronomer at the University of Arizona notable for serving as the principal investigator fo...

Modern Infrared Women Jwst

8.7 Great

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Fiona Harrison

Fiona Harrison is an American astronomer at Caltech notable for serving as the principal investigator of NASA's Nuclear...

Modern Space Women X Ray

8.6 Great

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Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman is a Canadian American astronomer known for leading the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project measuring the...

Modern Cosmology Women Distance Scale

8.5 Great

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Sheperd Doeleman

Sheperd Doeleman is an American astrophysicist who founded the Event Horizon Telescope project that produced the first b...

Modern Radio Black Holes Eht

8.4 Great

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Meg Urry

Meg Urry is an American astrophysicist at Yale, known for active galactic nuclei, black-hole growth, and service as AAS...

Modern Women Black Holes Agn

8.4 Great

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Heidi Hammel

Heidi Hammel is an American planetary astronomer who studied Neptune with Voyager 2 in 1989 and led Hubble observations...

Modern Planetary Women Outer Planets

8.3 Great

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Dan Werthimer

Dan Werthimer is an American SETI researcher at UC Berkeley who co-founded SETI@home, the distributed radio-signal searc...

Modern Radio Berkeley Seti

8.0 Great

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Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak is an American astronomer and senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, known for SETI research and the Big...

Modern Radio Public Seti

7.2 Good