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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Philip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American cosmologist at Princeton, awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist whose 1930 Chandrasekhar limit explained the maximum mass of stab...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the Northern Irish scientist whose 1967 pulsar discovery opened a major field in radio astr...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

9.7 Brilliant

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Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Sunyaev is a Russian astrophysicist known for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, a key probe of galaxy clusters and t...

Modern Cosmology Clusters X Ray

9.2 Excellent

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Simon White

Simon White is a British astrophysicist known for numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation and for developing...

Modern Cosmology British Simulations

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is a British astronomer at University College London notable for using gravitational lensing and deep fiel...

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

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Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a British theoretical astrophysicist who proposed in 1969 that quasars are powered by accretion o...

British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

8.9 Great

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David Jewitt

David Jewitt is a British-American astronomer who, with Jane Luu, discovered 1992 QB1, the first known Kuiper Belt objec...

Modern British Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.9 Great

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James Bradley

James Bradley was an English astronomer who discovered stellar aberration in 1728, providing evidence for Earth's motion...

British Early Modern Astrometry Aberration

8.6 Great

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Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-American astronomer who in 1963 identified 3C 273 as a quasar, showing it had a large cosmol...

Dutch Twentieth Century Redshift Quasars

8.6 Great

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Fiona Harrison

Fiona Harrison is an American astronomer at Caltech notable for serving as the principal investigator of NASA's Nuclear...

Modern Space Women X Ray

8.6 Great

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Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi was an Italian-American physicist who advanced cosmic-ray astronomy and helped launch the first extrasolar X...

Italian Twentieth Century X Ray Cosmic Rays

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Harvey Tananbaum

Harvey Tananbaum is an American astrophysicist who notably directed the Chandra X-ray Center and played a crucial role i...

Modern American X Ray Chandra

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Bernard Lovell

Bernard Lovell was a British radio astronomer who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and built its 76-meter radio tele...

Radio British Observatory Twentieth Century

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Nick Kaiser

Nick Kaiser is a British cosmologist known for work on weak gravitational lensing and the Kaiser effect in galaxy redshi...

Modern Cosmology British Lensing

8.2 Great

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Herbert Friedman

Herbert Friedman was an American physicist whose rocket experiments helped found solar X-ray astronomy and ultraviolet a...

American Solar Twentieth Century X Ray

8.1 Great

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Mark McCaughrean

Mark McCaughrean is a British astrophysicist at the European Space Agency noted for his research on star formation and h...

Modern British Star Formation Jwst

8.0 Great

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John Flamsteed

John Flamsteed was England's first Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1675, and produced the Historia Coelestis Britannica s...

British Observational Early Modern Catalogs

7.9 Good

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Megan Donahue

Megan Donahue is an American astronomer at Michigan State University, known for galaxy-cluster research and AAS presiden...

Modern Women Clusters X Ray

7.9 Good

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Jeremiah Horrocks

Jeremiah Horrocks was an English astronomer who predicted and observed the 1639 transit of Venus, the first recorded obs...

British Early Modern Transits Venus

7.5 Good