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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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Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is a British astronomer at University College London notable for using gravitational lensing and deep fiel...

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

9.0 Excellent

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Vesto Slipher

Vesto Slipher was an American astronomer who measured spiral nebula redshifts from 1912, evidence later central to cosmi...

Twentieth Century Galaxies Spectroscopy Redshift

8.9 Great

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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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Jeremiah Ostriker

Jeremiah Ostriker is an American astrophysicist whose work shaped modern ideas on dark matter, intergalactic gas, and ga...

Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Francoise Combes

Francoise Combes is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and College de France, known for galaxy dynamics an...

Modern Women Galaxies Molecular Gas

8.8 Great

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John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin highly noted for his foundational observati...

Modern American Black Holes Galaxies

8.8 Great

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Alessandro Morbidelli

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Modern Italian Planetary Dynamics

8.6 Great

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R. Brent Tully

R. Brent Tully is an American astronomer at the University of Hawaii notable for co-developing the Tully-Fisher relation...

Modern American Galaxies Distance Scale

8.6 Great

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Bruno Rossi

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Italian Twentieth Century X Ray Cosmic Rays

8.5 Great

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George Rieke

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Modern American Infrared Galaxies

8.5 Great

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Garth Illingworth

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Modern Australian Galaxies Hubble

8.4 Great

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Beatrice Tinsley

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Evolution Twentieth Century Women Galaxies

8.3 Great

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John Huchra

John Huchra was an American astronomer known for the CfA Redshift Survey and co-discovering the Great Wall of galaxies i...

Modern Galaxies Redshift Surveys

8.3 Great

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Marc Davis

Marc Davis is an American astronomer known for mapping galaxy redshifts and helping reveal the large-scale structure of...

Modern American Galaxies Surveys

8.2 Great

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Nick Scoville

Nick Scoville is an American astronomer at Caltech noted for pioneering the study of carbon monoxide in molecular clouds...

Modern American Galaxies Surveys

8.2 Great

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Milton Humason

Milton Humason was an American astronomer at Mount Wilson who measured galaxy redshifts used in Edwin Hubble's 1929 dist...

Observational Twentieth Century Galaxies Redshift

8.1 Great

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Margaret Geller

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Modern Large Scale Women Galaxies

8.1 Great

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Rogier Windhorst

Rogier Windhorst is an astronomer at Arizona State University noted for his galaxy evolution research and role as a Jame...

Modern Dutch Galaxies Hubble

8.1 Great

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George Blumenthal

George Blumenthal is an American astrophysicist who served as Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz and notably contributed to the...

Modern American Cosmology Galaxies

7.7 Good