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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astronomer renowned for her pivotal role in discovering the first radio pulsars at Cambridge...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a renowned astronomer recognized for her pivotal role in discovering pulsars in 1967. Her doctor...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge fundamentally advanced our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic chemical enrichment. H...

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Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is an astronomer specializing in astrochemistry. Her research focuses on the chemical processes invol...

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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...

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Sandra Faber

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

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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

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Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter is an American astronomer and SETI researcher who directed Project Phoenix, a 1990s search for radio signals...

Modern Radio Women Seti

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Renu Malhotra

Renu Malhotra is an Indian-born American planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, known for her 1995 work on Pl...

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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

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Beatrice Tinsley

Beatrice Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer who modeled galaxy evolution and showed how stellar populatio...

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Virginia Trimble

Virginia Trimble is an American astronomer and historian of astronomy, known for broad reviews in astrophysics and the 1...

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Paola Caselli

Paola Caselli is an Italian astrochemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, known fo...

Modern Women Star Formation Astrochemistry

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