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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Philip James Edwin Peebles is a prominent astronomer recognized globally for his contributions to modern cosmology. His...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

9.8 Brilliant

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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work on stellar evolution and black...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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Cecilia Payne

Cecilia Payne was a pioneering astronomer who fundamentally altered our understanding of stellar composition. Her 1925 d...

Historical British Spectroscopy Stellar

9.7 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a twentieth-century Polish astronomer who made significant contributions to astrophysics. His resea...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

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Yakov Zel'dovich

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914–1987) was a Soviet physicist and cosmologist who made contributions across nuclear phy...

Cosmology Soviet Twentieth Century Large Scale Structure

9.6 Brilliant

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Andrzej Udalski

Andrzej Udalski is a Polish astronomer and professor at the University of Warsaw, where he leads the Optical Gravitation...

Polish 21ST Century Variable Stars Microlensing

8.7 Great

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Scott Sheppard

Scott Sheppard is an American astronomer working at the Carnegie Institution for Science who specializes in the study of...

American 21ST Century Outer Solar System Irregular Moons

8.1 Great

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Chadwick Trujillo

Chadwick Trujillo is an American astronomer specializing in the discovery of trans-Neptunian objects in the distant oute...

American Survey 21ST Century Outer Solar System

8.0 Great

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Luis Ho

Luis C. Ho is an astronomer known for observational research on galaxies, supermassive black holes, and active galactic...

21ST Century Black Holes Chinese American Agn

7.9 Good

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Michael Strauss

Michael Strauss is an American astronomer and professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is widely...

American 21ST Century Quasars Sdss

7.9 Good

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David Weinberg

David Weinberg is an American astronomer and cosmologist who serves as a Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State Unive...

American Cosmology 21ST Century Sdss

7.9 Good

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Christopher McKay

Christopher McKay is an American planetary scientist working at the NASA Ames Research Center. He specializes in astrobi...

American 21ST Century Mars Astrobiology

7.9 Good

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David Latham

David Latham is an American astronomer associated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He helped develo...

American 21ST Century Radial Velocity Kepler

7.8 Good

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Timothy Brown

Timothy Brown is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work in the detection and characterization of exoplanet...

High Resolution American 21ST Century Exoplanet Transit

7.7 Good

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Jacqueline van Gorkom

Jacqueline van Gorkom is a Dutch radio astronomer and professor at Columbia University, known for her extensive research...

21ST Century Radio Astronomy Dutch American Hi Surveys

7.6 Good

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Didier Saumon

Didier Saumon is a theoretical astrophysicist known for his research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He specializes i...

Modeling 21ST Century French American Cool Stars

7.6 Good

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Eduardo Martin

Eduardo Martín is a Spanish astronomer and astrophysicist affiliated with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. He i...

Spanish 21ST Century Exoplanets Brown Dwarfs

7.3 Good

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Jedidah Isler

Jedidah Isler is an American astrophysicist whose research has focused on active galactic nuclei, blazars, and the jets...

American 21ST Century Jets Blazars

6.7 Fair

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Fulvio Melia

Fulvio Melia is an Italian-American astrophysicist and professor at the University of Arizona. His research concerns the...

21ST Century Theoretical Italian American Black Holes

6.6 Fair