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S. Chandrasekhar

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

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a twentieth-century Polish astronomer who made significant contributions to astrophysics. His resea...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

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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

4

Nancy Grace Roman

Nancy Grace Roman was a pioneering twentieth-century astronomer instrumental in developing deep space imaging techniques...

Space Twentieth Century Women Hubble

8.8 Great

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Fiona Harrison

Fiona Harrison is a modern astronomer specializing in X-ray astronomy. She leads the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Arr...

Modern Space Women X Ray

8.6 Great

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John Bahcall

John Bahcall was an American astrophysicist whose solar models framed the solar neutrino problem and who helped develop...

History Theory Twentieth Century Stellar

8.6 Great

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Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi was a twentieth-century Italian astronomer specializing in cosmic rays. His significant contribution involve...

Italian Twentieth Century X Ray Cosmic Rays

8.5 Great

8

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

8.4 Great

9

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

8.4 Great

10

Gerard de Vaucouleurs

Gerard de Vaucouleurs was a French astronomer who extended galaxy classification and co-authored the 1991 Third Referenc...

History Twentieth Century Classification Galaxies

8.2 Great

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Milton Humason

Milton Humason was a twentieth-century observational astronomer working primarily at Mount Wilson Observatory. He is bes...

Observational Twentieth Century Galaxies Redshift

8.1 Great

12

Herbert Friedman

Herbert Friedman was a twentieth-century American astronomer who pioneered solar X-ray astronomy. His innovative rocket-...

American Solar Twentieth Century X Ray

8.1 Great

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W. Kent Ford Jr.

W. Kent Ford Jr. was an American astronomer whose image-tube spectrographs helped Vera Rubin measure 1970s galaxy rotati...

History Instrumentation Twentieth Century Dark Matter

7.8 Good

14

David Levy

David Levy is a Canadian amateur astronomer and science writer who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993 with the...

Canadian Observational Twentieth Century Comets

7.6 Good

15

Edward Maunder

Edward Maunder was a British solar astronomer whose sunspot studies identified the 1645-1715 lull now called the Maunder...

History Solar Observational Nineteenth Century

7.6 Good

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Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore was a British amateur astronomer and broadcaster who hosted BBC's The Sky at Night from its 1957 debut unt...

History Lunar Observational Twentieth Century

7.5 Good

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Priscilla Fairfield Bok

Priscilla Fairfield Bok was an American astronomer who collaborated with Bart Bok on Milky Way structure and co-authored...

History Observational Twentieth Century Milky Way

7.3 Good

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France A. Córdova

France A. Córdova is an American astrophysicist who served as the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF)...

American Contemporary Space X Ray

7.1 Good

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell was an American astronomer who founded Lowell Observatory in Arizona in 1894 and launched the Planet X s...

History Mars Observatory Twentieth Century

6.9 Fair

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Antoinette de Vaucouleurs

Antoinette de Vaucouleurs was a French astronomer who helped compile the Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, from th...

History Twentieth Century Classification Galaxies

6.9 Fair