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S. Chandrasekhar

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

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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astronomer renowned for her pivotal role in discovering the first radio pulsars at Cambridge...

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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...

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9.7 Brilliant

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge fundamentally advanced our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic chemical enrichment. H...

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9.4 Excellent

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Ewine van Dishoeck

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9.1 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...

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9.0 Excellent

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Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a twentieth-century British astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work on galactic structure...

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Sandra Faber

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Maria Zuber

Maria Zuber is a prominent astronomer specializing in geophysics and planetary science. Her work focuses on understandin...

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Nancy Grace Roman

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Jane Luu

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8.8 Great

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Francoise Combes

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John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin highly noted for his foundational observati...

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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...

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Carolyn Porco

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Marcia Rieke

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8.7 Great

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Fiona Harrison

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Wendy Freedman

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Feryal Ozel

Feryal Ozel is a Turkish-American astrophysicist, known for neutron-star and black-hole modeling and Event Horizon Teles...

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8.2 Great

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Marta Volonteri

Marta Volonteri is a theoretical astrophysicist at the French CNRS, notable for her foundational research on the cosmic...

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8.1 Great