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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

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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

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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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Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Kaspi is an astronomer specializing in the study of pulsars and magnetars. Her research focuses on these rapidl...

Modern Women Pulsars Neutron Stars

9.0 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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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in cosmology. He significantly contributed to...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.9 Great

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Neil Gehrels

Neil Gehrels was a prominent American astronomer specializing in gamma-ray astronomy. His work centered on studying shor...

Modern American Space Gamma Rays

8.9 Great

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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

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Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in cosmology. His meticulous work at Mount W...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.8 Great

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Michael Brown

Michael Brown is a modern American astronomer specializing in planetary science. His work significantly advanced our und...

Modern American Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

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John Kormendy

John Kormendy is a modern American astronomer specializing in the study of galaxies and their central supermassive black...

Modern American Black Holes Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Volker Springel

German astrophysicist known for developing the GADGET cosmological simulation code and leading the Illustris and Illustr...

German Contemporary Cosmology Simulations

8.8 Great

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Frans Pretorius

South African-Canadian physicist at Princeton University who in 2005 achieved the first successful numerical relativity...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Black Holes Numerical Relativity

8.8 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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Eliot Quataert

American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University known for work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, black hole...

American Contemporary Galactic Center Accretion

8.2 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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Michiel van der Klis

Dutch astronomer at the University of Amsterdam known for discovering kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron s...

Contemporary Dutch Neutron Stars X Ray Binaries

8.2 Great

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Paul Butler

American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution who co-developed a high-precision radial velocity technique with Geoff M...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Frederick Lamb

American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois known for theoretical models of accretion torques in X-ray pulsars...

American Contemporary Theoretical Neutron Stars

7.0 Good

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Mariano Mendez

Argentine-Dutch astrophysicist at the University of Groningen known for X-ray timing and spectroscopic studies of accret...

Contemporary Neutron Stars X Ray Binaries X Ray Bursts

6.5 Fair