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Dame Margaret Burbidge

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

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.4 Excellent

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Rashid Alievich Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a prominent Russian astrophysicist specializing in contemporary cosmology. His work fundament...

Russian Contemporary Cosmology X Ray

9.2 Excellent

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Willy Fowler

Willy Fowler was a prominent twentieth-century astronomer specializing in nuclear astrophysics. His groundbreaking resea...

Twentieth Century Nucleosynthesis Stellar Nobel

9.1 Excellent

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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

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Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Kulkarni is a prominent modern astronomer specializing in observational studies of pulsars supernovae and tran...

Modern Observational Pulsars Supernovae

8.9 Great

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Volker Springel

Volker Springel is a German astronomer recognized for pioneering work in simulating the universe’s evolution. His GADGET...

German Contemporary Cosmology Simulations

8.8 Great

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Frans Pretorius

Frans Pretorius is an astronomer specializing in gravitational waves and black holes. His work focuses on numerical rela...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Black Holes Numerical Relativity

8.8 Great

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Brian P. Schmidt

Brian P. Schmidt is a prominent modern astronomer specializing in cosmology. His groundbreaking work analyzing Type Ia s...

Modern Cosmology Observational Dark Energy

8.7 Great

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Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi was a twentieth-century Japanese astronomer whose work significantly advanced cosmology. He is particul...

Cosmology Japanese Twentieth Century Stellar

8.6 Great

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James Binney

James Binney is a British astrophysicist at Oxford, known for galactic dynamics and the 1988 textbook Galactic Dynamics...

Contemporary Theory Milky Way Galactic Dynamics

8.5 Great

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Mike Brown

American astronomer at Caltech who co-discovered the dwarf planet Eris and numerous trans-Neptunian objects, directly pr...

American Contemporary Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.4 Great

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Alastair G. W. Cameron

Alastair G. W. Cameron was a Canadian-American astrophysicist, noted for nuclear astrophysics and the giant-impact theor...

Theory 20TH Century Planetary Nucleosynthesis

8.4 Great

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Alex Filippenko

Alex Filippenko is an American astronomer specializing in the study of supernovae and galaxies. His research has been cr...

American Galaxies Current Supernovae

8.4 Great

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Peter Meszaros

Hungarian-American astrophysicist at Penn State who co-developed the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts, providing the f...

Contemporary High Energy Hungarian American Gamma Ray Bursts

8.3 Great

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Charles L. Bennett

Charles L. Bennett, an American astrophysicist, led NASA's WMAP mission, which mapped cosmic microwave background anisot...

Contemporary Cosmology Cmb Space Missions

8.3 Great

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Andrew Fabian

Andrew Fabian is a British X-ray astronomer at Cambridge, awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize for work on black holes and galax...

Contemporary Black Holes Clusters X Ray

8.3 Great

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Adam Burrows

American astrophysicist at Princeton University known for theoretical models of core-collapse supernovae, brown dwarf co...

American Contemporary Supernovae Exoplanet Atmospheres

8.2 Great

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Mario Hamuy

Mario Hamuy is a Chilean astronomer known for using Type Ia and Type II supernovae as cosmic distance indicators, includ...

Modern Observational Chilean Supernovae

8.2 Great

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Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, an Indian-American astronomer at Caltech, studied pulsars and gamma-ray bursts and helped lead th...

Contemporary Radio Neutron Stars Transients

8.2 Great

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George F. R. Ellis

George F. R. Ellis is a South African cosmologist who co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with Stephen H...

Contemporary Relativity Cosmology Theory

8.2 Great