swap_horiz Maria Mitchell Alternatives

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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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Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez is a prominent American astronomer specializing in research at the galactic center of our galaxy, the Mil...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.6 Brilliant

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John Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) was an American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the theor...

American Theoretical General Relativity Mid Late 20TH

9.6 Brilliant

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Edmund Halley

Edmond Halley (1656–1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and geophysicist who served as the second Astronomer...

British Comets Proper Motion 17TH 18TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

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Joe Taylor

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist born in 1941 who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Russ...

American Nobel Prize Late 20TH Binary Pulsar

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Charles Bennett

Charles L. Bennett is an American observational cosmologist who served as principal investigator for NASA's Wilkinson Mi...

American Contemporary Observational Cmb

9.4 Excellent

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) was an American observational astronomer who joined the staff of Lick Observatory in...

History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

8.4 Great

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Caroline Herschel

Caroline Herschel was a pioneering eighteenth-century astronomer. Born in Germany, she made significant contributions to...

Women Comets Catalogs Eighteenth Century

8.2 Great

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Lynne Hillenbrand

Lynne Hillenbrand is an American astronomer and a professor at the California Institute of Technology specializing in ob...

American Contemporary Women Star Formation

8.1 Great

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Jennifer Lotz

Jennifer Lotz is an American astronomer who serves as the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in B...

American Contemporary Women Galaxies

8.1 Great

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Carolyn Shoemaker

Carolyn Shoemaker was an American astronomer known for discovering and co-discovering comets and asteroids, despite begi...

Planetary Twentieth Century Women Comets

7.9 Good

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Edward Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his observational work in the late 19th and early 20th ce...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.9 Good

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Mariangela Lisanti

Mariangela Lisanti is an American theoretical physicist renowned for her research on dark matter and astroparticle physi...

American Contemporary Dark Matter Women

7.9 Good

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Fred Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906-2004) was an American astronomer who made significant contributions to the study of comets a...

American Solar System Comets Mid 20TH Century

7.8 Good

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Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021) was an American astronomer who became one of the most prolific discoverers of comets in...

Modern American Planetary Comets

7.8 Good

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Annika Peter

Annika Peter is an astrophysicist and academic who served as a professor at the Ohio State University's Department of Ph...

American Contemporary Cosmology Dark Matter

7.7 Good

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Benjamin Gould

Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a prominent American astronomer who made significant contributions to the systematic mapping...

History American Catalog Nineteenth Century

7.3 Good

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Hal Weaver

Hal Weaver is an American planetary scientist and astronomer whose research includes comets and other small bodies in th...

American Contemporary Solar System Comets

6.5 Fair

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Margaret Harwood

Margaret Harwood was an American astronomer of the twentieth century who directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory. Her re...

Modern American Women Photometry

6.4 Fair