swap_horiz Stephane Udry Alternatives

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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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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a nineteenth-century German astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work in astrometry....

Parallax Nineteenth Century Stars Astrometry

8.9 Great

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Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Kulkarni is a prominent modern astronomer specializing in observational studies of pulsars supernovae and tran...

Modern Observational Pulsars Supernovae

8.9 Great

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was a prominent early-modern astronomer renowned for his meticulous observational work. His mo...

Observational Planetary Early Modern Saturn

8.8 Great

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William Borucki

William Borucki is a prominent astronomer recognized for his leadership of NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The Kepler mis...

Modern Space Exoplanets Kepler

8.7 Great

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Brian P. Schmidt

Brian P. Schmidt is an American-born Australian astronomer who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for supernova evidence of the...

Modern Cosmology Observational Dark Energy

8.7 Great

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Ibn Yunus

Ibn Yunus was an influential medieval Egyptian astronomer whose meticulous observations significantly advanced astronomi...

Medieval Observational Egyptian Zij

8.7 Great

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Allan Rex Sandage

American astronomer who succeeded Edwin Hubble at Palomar Observatory, spent decades refining the Hubble constant, and m...

American Cosmology Observational Mid 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was a 10th-century Persian astronomer whose 964 Book of Fixed Stars cataloged constellations and n...

History Catalog Medieval Islamic

8.6 Great

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France A. Cordova

France A. Cordova is an American astrophysicist who became NASA's first woman chief scientist in 1993 and led the NSF fr...

Modern Leadership Space Observational

8.4 Great

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Maria Teresa Ruiz

Maria Teresa Ruiz is a Chilean astronomer who discovered the brown dwarf Kelu-1 in 1997 and was the first woman to win C...

Modern Observational Chilean Stars

8.2 Great

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Aleksander Wolszczan

Aleksander Wolszczan is a Polish astronomer who, with Dale Frail, reported the first confirmed exoplanets around pulsar...

Modern Radio Observational Pulsars

8.1 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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Paul Butler

American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution who co-developed a high-precision radial velocity technique with Geoff M...

American Contemporary Exoplanets Radial Velocity

8.0 Great

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Dale Frail

Dale Frail is a Canadian radio astronomer who, with Aleksander Wolszczan, reported the first confirmed exoplanets around...

Modern Radio Observational Pulsars

7.7 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 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