swap_horiz Karl Jansky Alternatives

1

Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American astronomer renowned for his pioneering research into interstellar space and plasma phy...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

2

Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was a twentieth-century American astronomer whose pioneering work fundamentally reshaped our unders...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

3

Georges Lemaître

Georges Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and Catholic priest whose work profoundly shaped modern cosmology. He develope...

Cosmology 20TH Century Historical Belgian

9.2 Excellent

4

Stan Woosley

Stan Woosley is a prominent modern American astronomer specializing in supernovae and gamma-rays. His research significa...

Modern American Supernovae Gamma Rays

9.0 Excellent

5

Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was an American physicist who advanced tests of general relativity and helped motivate the 1965 search for...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

6

Neil Gehrels

Neil Gehrels was an American astrophysicist at NASA who notably served as the principal investigator for the Swift Gamma...

Modern American Space Gamma Rays

8.9 Great

7

Gerry Neugebauer

Gerry Neugebauer was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in infrared observations. His research si...

American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.9 Great

8

Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage was an American astronomer who refined the Hubble constant and helped identify quasars while working at Mo...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.8 Great

9

Jeremiah Ostriker

Jeremiah Ostriker is an American astrophysicist whose work shaped modern ideas on dark matter, intergalactic gas, and ga...

Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

8.8 Great

10

Michael Brown

Michael Brown is an American Caltech astronomer whose team's discovery of Eris helped trigger Pluto's 2006 reclassificat...

Modern American Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

11

John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin highly noted for his foundational observati...

Modern American Black Holes Galaxies

8.8 Great

12

Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer (1784–1846) who in 1838 made the first successful measurement of stellar parallax, determining the dis...

German 19TH Century Historical Astrometry

8.8 Great

13

Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer who used globular clusters in 1918 to place the Sun away from the Milky Way's...

American Twentieth Century Clusters Galactic

8.7 Great

14

Eugene Shoemaker

Eugene Shoemaker was an American geologist and planetary scientist who founded astrogeology and co-discovered Comet Shoe...

American Planetary Twentieth Century Impacts

8.7 Great

15

Icko Iben

Icko Iben was an American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, known for stellar evolution theory and awarded t...

American Evolution Twentieth Century Stellar

8.7 Great

16

Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton was a prominent American physicist at Caltech noted for designing innovative telescopes and conducting e...

American Infrared Twentieth Century Surveys

8.7 Great

17

Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft was an American astronomer and former Lick Observatory director, known for the Kraft break in stellar rotat...

Modern American Spectroscopy Stellar

8.6 Great

18

George Ellery Hale

American astronomer (1868–1938) who founded Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories and discovered the magnetic fields of...

American Historical Solar Telescopes

8.6 Great

19

Nancy Roman

American astronomer known as the Mother of Hubble who became NASA's first Chief of Astronomy in 1959 and championed spac...

American Historical Stellar Classification Hubble

8.5 Great

20

Grote Reber

American radio engineer (1911–2002) who in 1937 built the first purpose-built parabolic radio telescope in his backyard...

American 20TH Century Historical Radio Astronomy

8.1 Great