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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Known professionally as Jim or James Peebles, Philip James Edwin Peebles is a theoretical physicist whose work helped es...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

9.82 Brilliant

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S. Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astrophysicist whose mathematical work transformed understanding of s...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.70 Brilliant

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Charles Bennett

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

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9.42 Excellent

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Uros Seljak

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Lyman Spitzer

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Matias Zaldarriaga

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9.23 Excellent

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J. Richard Bond

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Eiichiro Komatsu

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Willy Fowler

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Twentieth Century Nucleosynthesis Stellar Nobel

9.05 Excellent

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Modern Exoplanets Nobel Radial Velocity

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David N. Spergel

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Martin Ryle

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Neil Gehrels

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Russell Hulse

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Robert W. Wilson

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