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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Radio Twentieth Century Nobel Interferometry

9.0 Excellent

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Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter is an American astronomer and SETI researcher who directed Project Phoenix, a 1990s search for radio signals...

Modern Radio Women Seti

8.5 Great

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Sheperd Doeleman

Sheperd Doeleman is an American astrophysicist who founded the Event Horizon Telescope project that produced the first b...

Modern Radio Black Holes Eht

8.4 Great

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Bernard Lovell

Bernard Lovell was a British radio astronomer who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory and built its 76-meter radio tele...

Radio British Observatory Twentieth Century

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Heino Falcke

Heino Falcke is a German Dutch astrophysicist who helped develop the Event Horizon Telescope concept and predicted black...

Modern Radio Black Holes Eht

8.2 Great

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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...

Modern Radio Pulsars Fast Bursts

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Dan Werthimer

Dan Werthimer is an American SETI researcher at UC Berkeley who co-founded SETI@home, the distributed radio-signal searc...

Modern Radio Berkeley Seti

8.0 Great

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Emily Lakdawalla

Emily Lakdawalla is an American planetary geologist and science writer, noted for The Planetary Society work and a 2011...

Modern Public Planetary Women

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