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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

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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

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French astronomer who discovered Saturn's ring division in 1675 and four of its...

Observational Planetary Early Modern Saturn

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Walter Baade

Walter Baade was a German-American astronomer who resolved stars in Andromeda in 1944 and identified Population I and II...

German Twentieth Century Stellar Distance Scale

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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

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R. Brent Tully

R. Brent Tully is an American astronomer at the University of Hawaii notable for co-developing the Tully-Fisher relation...

Modern American Galaxies Distance Scale

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Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman is a Canadian American astronomer known for leading the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project measuring the...

Modern Cosmology Women Distance Scale

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Julio Navarro

Julio Navarro is a Chilean Canadian astrophysicist known for the Navarro-Frenk-White dark matter halo profile introduced...

Modern Dark Matter Chilean Simulations

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American observational astronomer who discovered Jupiter's moon Amalthea in 1892 and measu...

History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

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France A. Cordova

France A. Cordova is an American astrophysicist who became NASA's first woman chief scientist in 1993 and led the NSF fr...

Modern Leadership Space Observational

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Ken Nomoto

Japanese astrophysicist at the University of Tokyo known for foundational theoretical models of Type Ia and core-collaps...

Contemporary Japanese Nucleosynthesis Supernovae

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Robert Kirshner

Robert Kirshner is an American astronomer whose supernova work helped establish the accelerating universe and earned him...

Modern American Cosmology Supernovae

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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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Michael E. Brown

Michael E. Brown is an American planetary astronomer whose 2005 discovery of Eris helped trigger Pluto's reclassificatio...

Modern Observational Planetary Kuiper Belt

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Imke de Pater

Imke de Pater is a Dutch planetary scientist at UC Berkeley, known for radio and infrared studies of giant planets and K...

Modern Radio Observational Planetary

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Milton Humason

Milton Humason was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson who measured galaxy redshifts used in Edwin Hubble's 1929 dist...

Observational Twentieth Century Galaxies Redshift

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Alexei Filippenko

Alexei Filippenko is an American astronomer known for supernova research and his role in teams that found the accelerati...

Modern American Observational Supernovae

8.1 Great

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Aleksander Wolszczan

Aleksander Wolszczan is a Polish astronomer who, with Dale Frail, reported the first confirmed exoplanets around pulsar...

Modern Radio Observational Pulsars

8.1 Great

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Silvia Torres-Peimbert

Silvia Torres-Peimbert is a Mexican astronomer who studied nebular chemistry and served as International Astronomical Un...

Modern Mexican Observational Nebulae

8.1 Great

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Raffaella Margutti

Raffaella Margutti is an Italian multi-messenger astronomer at UC Berkeley, awarded a 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize...

Modern Women Supernovae Transients

8.0 Great