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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist whose 1930 Chandrasekhar limit explained the maximum mass of stab...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

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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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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Richard Ellis

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Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

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Vesto Slipher

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Twentieth Century Galaxies Spectroscopy Redshift

8.9 Great

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Donald Lynden-Bell

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British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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Robert Dicke

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American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

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Sandra Faber

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Modern Women Galaxies Telescopes

8.9 Great

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Neil Gehrels

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Modern American Space Gamma Rays

8.9 Great

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Gerry Neugebauer

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American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.9 Great

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Allan Sandage

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American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.8 Great

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Jeremiah Ostriker

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Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Francoise Combes

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Modern Women Galaxies Molecular Gas

8.8 Great

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R. Brent Tully

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Modern American Galaxies Distance Scale

8.6 Great

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George Rieke

George Rieke is an American astronomer at the University of Arizona renowned for his leadership in developing infrared i...

Modern American Infrared Galaxies

8.5 Great

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Marc Davis

Marc Davis is an American astronomer known for mapping galaxy redshifts and helping reveal the large-scale structure of...

Modern American Galaxies Surveys

8.2 Great

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Nick Scoville

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Modern American Galaxies Surveys

8.2 Great

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George Blumenthal

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Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

7.7 Good

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Halton Arp

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American Twentieth Century Galaxies Atlas

6.9 Fair