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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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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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Richard Ellis

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

Modern British Galaxies Surveys

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Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a British theoretical astrophysicist who proposed in 1969 that quasars are powered by accretion o...

British Twentieth Century Black Holes Galactic

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was an American physicist who advanced tests of general relativity and helped motivate the 1965 search for...

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David Jewitt

David Jewitt is a British-American astronomer who, with Jane Luu, discovered 1992 QB1, the first known Kuiper Belt objec...

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Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage was an American astronomer who refined the Hubble constant and helped identify quasars while working at Mo...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

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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

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James Bradley

James Bradley was an English astronomer who discovered stellar aberration in 1728, providing evidence for Earth's motion...

British Early Modern Astrometry Aberration

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Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi was a Japanese astrophysicist who described pre-main-sequence Hayashi tracks and calculated early-unive...

Cosmology Japanese Twentieth Century Stellar

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Carlos Frenk

Carlos Frenk is a Mexican British cosmologist known for simulations of galaxy formation and leadership in the Lambda col...

Modern Cosmology Mexican Simulations

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Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman is a Canadian American astronomer known for leading the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project measuring the...

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David Spergel

David Spergel is an American astrophysicist known for interpreting WMAP data and constraining the age, composition, and...

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Julio Navarro

Julio Navarro is a Chilean Canadian astrophysicist known for the Navarro-Frenk-White dark matter halo profile introduced...

Modern Dark Matter Chilean Simulations

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Paul Steinhardt

Paul Steinhardt is an American theoretical cosmologist known for work on cosmic inflation, quintessence, and cyclic mode...

Modern American Cosmology Inflation

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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...

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Robert Kirshner

Robert Kirshner is an American astronomer whose supernova work helped establish the accelerating universe and earned him...

Modern American Cosmology Supernovae

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Nick Kaiser

Nick Kaiser is a British cosmologist known for work on weak gravitational lensing and the Kaiser effect in galaxy redshi...

Modern Cosmology British Lensing

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Martin Elvis

Martin Elvis is a British-born American astrophysicist at Harvard University highly noted for his extensive observationa...

Modern British X Ray Quasars

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Joel Primack

Joel Primack is an American physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, notable for co-authoring the influent...

Modern American Cosmology Dark Matter

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