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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 Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars as a Cambridge...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

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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Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer at Princeton University notable for his pioneering work on gravitational microl...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.6 Brilliant

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Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation in the 1920s and proposed the distant comet res...

Dutch Twentieth Century Galactic Oort Cloud

9.4 Excellent

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge was a British-American astrophysicist and first author of the 1957 B2FH paper explaining how star...

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.4 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer was an American astrophysicist who proposed a space telescope in 1946 and led work on plasma physics and i...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who independently plotted stellar luminosity against spectral type in 19...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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John Mather

John Mather is an American astrophysicist who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for COBE measurements of the cosmic...

Modern Space Nobel Cmb

9.2 Excellent

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Willy Fowler

Willy Fowler was an American nuclear astrophysicist who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for explaining how elements form ins...

Twentieth Century Nucleosynthesis Stellar Nobel

9.1 Excellent

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Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch astrochemist at Leiden Observatory, awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize for work on molecules in...

Modern Women Star Formation Astrochemistry

9.1 Excellent

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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer who developed aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics f...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 Excellent

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Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Kaspi is a Canadian astrophysicist at McGill known for pulsars and magnetars, and she won the 2021 Shaw Prize i...

Modern Women Pulsars Neutron Stars

9.0 Excellent

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Sandra Faber

Sandra Faber is an American astronomer known for galaxy evolution research and co-discovering the Faber-Jackson relation...

Modern Women Galaxies Telescopes

8.9 Great

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Neil Gehrels

Neil Gehrels was an American astrophysicist at NASA who notably served as the principal investigator for the Swift Gamma...

Modern American Space Gamma Rays

8.9 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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Beatrice Tinsley

Beatrice Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer who modeled galaxy evolution and showed how stellar populatio...

Evolution Twentieth Century Women Galaxies

8.3 Great

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Williamina Fleming

Williamina Fleming was a Scottish-American astronomer at Harvard who classified thousands of stars and discovered the Ho...

Twentieth Century Women Spectroscopy Catalogs

8.0 Great

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Carolyn Shoemaker

Carolyn Shoemaker was an American astronomer who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993 and became a leading disco...

Planetary Twentieth Century Women Comets

7.9 Good

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Antonia Maury

Antonia Maury was an American astronomer at Harvard who developed a detailed stellar classification system published in...

Twentieth Century Women Classification Spectroscopy

7.3 Good