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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

9.8 Brilliant

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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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Claudius Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman astronomer in Alexandria whose Almagest, written about 150 CE, formalized the geocent...

Ancient Geocentric Alexandria Catalogs

9.6 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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William Herschel

William Herschel was a German-born British astronomer who discovered Uranus in 1781 and built large reflecting telescope...

Eighteenth Century Nebulae Uranus Telescopes

9.3 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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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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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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Shri Kulkarni

Shri Kulkarni is an Indian-American Caltech astronomer known for work on pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, and optical transien...

Modern Pulsars Caltech Transients

9.2 Excellent

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French astronomer who discovered Saturn's ring division in 1675 and four of its...

Observational Planetary Early Modern Saturn

8.8 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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Ejnar Hertzsprung

Ejnar Hertzsprung was a Danish astronomer who related stellar color to luminosity, helping create the Hertzsprung-Russel...

Danish Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

8.5 Great

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Bengt Stromgren

Bengt Stromgren was a Danish astronomer who developed Stromgren photometry, a four color system used to classify stellar...

Danish Twentieth Century Stellar Photometry

8.1 Great

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Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius was a Polish astronomer in Gdansk who published detailed lunar maps in 1647 and described several cons...

Polish Lunar Early Modern Catalogs

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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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