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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...

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S. Chandrasekhar

S. Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist whose 1930 Chandrasekhar limit explained the maximum mass of stab...

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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...

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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...

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Claudius Ptolemy

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

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Bohdan Paczynski

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

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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...

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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...

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William Herschel

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering 51 Pegasi b, the first ex...

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Joseph Taylor

Joseph Taylor is an American physicist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize for discovering the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar at...

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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...

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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...

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9.0 Excellent

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Bernard Schutz

Bernard Schutz is an American physicist known for gravitational-wave astronomy and for co-founding the Max Planck Instit...

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Duncan Lorimer

Duncan Lorimer is a British-born astrophysicist at West Virginia University whose team reported the first fast radio bur...

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Maura McLaughlin

Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist at West Virginia University whose FRB and pulsar work was recognized with...

Modern Women Pulsars Fast Bursts

8.1 Great

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Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist who helped propose the steady-state theory in 1948 and explained pulsars...

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