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S. Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astrophysicist whose mathematical work transformed understanding of s...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.70 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Polish astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski made influential contributions to the study of stars and energetic events during...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.56 Brilliant

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Yakov Zel'dovich

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914-1987) was a Soviet physicist whose work extended from physical chemistry and nuclear p...

Cosmology Soviet Twentieth Century Large Scale Structure

9.55 Brilliant

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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

9.42 Excellent

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

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

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.38 Excellent

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Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of the Milky Way gal...

Dutch Twentieth Century Galactic Oort Cloud

9.35 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

9.25 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was a twentieth-century American astronomer whose pioneering work fundamentally reshaped our unders...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.15 Excellent

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Giovanni Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-born astronomer who became a naturalized French citizen and the first director...

Observational 17TH Century Saturn Italian French

9.12 Excellent

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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

8.10 Great

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John Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was an American astrophysicist known for theoretical work on the Sun, neutrinos, quasars, and the struct...

History Theory Twentieth Century Stellar

7.89 Good

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) was an American observational astronomer who joined the staff of Lick Observatory in...

History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

7.69 Good

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David Levy

David Levy is a Canadian amateur astronomer and science writer best known for co-discovering Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 alon...

Canadian Observational Twentieth Century Comets

7.55 Good

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Gerard de Vaucouleurs

Gérard de Vaucouleurs was a French-born astronomer known for research on galaxies, their classification, and the extraga...

History Twentieth Century Classification Galaxies

7.53 Good

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W. Kent Ford Jr.

W. Kent Ford Jr. was an American astronomer and physicist who worked at the Carnegie Institution for Science. In the 197...

History Instrumentation Twentieth Century Dark Matter

7.19 Good

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Edward Maunder

Edward Walter Maunder was a British astronomer whose work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, concentrated on sunspots...

History Solar Observational Nineteenth Century

7.03 Good

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Minoru Oda

Minoru Oda was a Japanese astrophysicist known for advancing observational X-ray astronomy. He invented the modulation c...

History Space Observational Twentieth Century

7.03 Good

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Priscilla Fairfield Bok

Priscilla Fairfield Bok was an American astronomer who worked with Bart Bok on the structure of the Milky Way. Together...

History Observational Twentieth Century Milky Way

6.70 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

6.38 Fair

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell was an American astronomer, mathematician, author, and businessman who founded Lowell Observatory in Fla...

History Mars Observatory Twentieth Century

6.31 Fair