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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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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

9.2 Excellent

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Rashid Alievich Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a prominent Russian astrophysicist specializing in contemporary cosmology. His work fundament...

Russian Contemporary Cosmology X Ray

9.2 Excellent

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Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz is a prominent astronomer specializing in the study of exoplanets. His research utilizing radial velocity...

Modern Exoplanets Nobel Radial Velocity

9.1 Excellent

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Stan Woosley

Stan Woosley is a prominent modern American astronomer specializing in supernovae and gamma-rays. His research significa...

Modern American Supernovae Gamma Rays

9.0 Excellent

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Mike Brown

American astronomer at Caltech who co-discovered the dwarf planet Eris and numerous trans-Neptunian objects, directly pr...

American Contemporary Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.4 Great

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Eliot Quataert

American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University known for work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, black hole...

American Contemporary Galactic Center Accretion

8.2 Great

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Christian Marois

Canadian astronomer at the National Research Council of Canada who led the 2008 direct imaging of four planets orbiting...

Contemporary Canadian Exoplanets Direct Imaging

8.2 Great

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Adam Burrows

American astrophysicist at Princeton University known for theoretical models of core-collapse supernovae, brown dwarf co...

American Contemporary Supernovae Exoplanet Atmospheres

8.2 Great

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Debra Fischer

Debra Fischer is an American astronomer known for exoplanet searches with radial-velocity methods and for developing pre...

Modern Women Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Lars Bildsten

American theoretical astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute known for work on thermonuclear X-ray bursts,...

American Contemporary Neutron Stars X Ray Bursts

8.0 Great

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Stephane Udry

Stephane Udry is a Swiss astronomer at Geneva Observatory whose HARPS team announced the super-Earth Gliese 581c around...

Modern Observational Exoplanets Stars

7.9 Good

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Andrew Howard

Andrew Howard is an American astronomer known for exoplanet demographics and radial-velocity surveys that measured the f...

Modern American Exoplanets Surveys

7.6 Good

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Guillem Anglada-Escude

Guillem Anglada-Escude is a Spanish astronomer who led the Pale Red Dot team that reported Proxima Centauri b, the neare...

Modern Observational Exoplanets Radial Velocity

7.6 Good

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Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy is an American astronomer known for discovering many early exoplanets around nearby stars using Doppler s...

Modern American Exoplanets Radial Velocity

7.5 Good

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Jason Wright

Jason Wright is an American astronomer known for exoplanet research, stellar activity studies, and searches for technolo...

Modern American Exoplanets Seti

7.4 Good

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Frederick Lamb

American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois known for theoretical models of accretion torques in X-ray pulsars...

American Contemporary Theoretical Neutron Stars

7.0 Good

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Jason Wang

American astronomer known for direct imaging of exoplanets, including producing astrometric orbital animations of the mu...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

6.6 Fair

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Brendan Bowler

American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for high-contrast imaging surveys that directly detect a...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

6.4 Fair

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Geoff Marcy

American astronomer who with Paul Butler discovered dozens of exoplanets in the 1990s and 2000s, making him one of the m...

Modern American Observational Exoplanets

5.5 Mediocre