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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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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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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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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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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

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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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American astronomer renowned for his pioneering research into interstellar space and plasma phy...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke was a prominent American astronomer who led research at Princeton University focused on cosmology. His t...

American Cosmology Historical Cmb

9.3 Excellent

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Jim Gunn

Jim Gunn is an American astronomer and professor at Princeton University known for his significant contributions to astr...

American Late 20TH Sdss Galaxy Formation

8.7 Great

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James Gunn

James E. Gunn is an American astronomer whose research has contributed to observational cosmology, galaxy studies, and a...

American Contemporary Instrumentation Galaxy Surveys

8.2 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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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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Donald York

Donald G. York is an American astronomer associated with the University of Chicago. His research has covered quasars, th...

American Contemporary Quasars Sdss

7.5 Good

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Jesse Greenstein

Jesse L. Greenstein was an American astronomer whose research centered on stellar spectroscopy and the physical properti...

American Spectroscopy Stellar Quasars

7.4 Good

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David Schlegel

American astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for large-scale galaxy redshift surveys and co-cr...

Modern American Cosmology Galaxy Surveys

6.8 Fair

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Jedidah Isler

Jedidah Isler is an American astrophysicist who became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics from Yale Uni...

American 21ST Century Jets Blazars

6.7 Fair