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Philip James Edwin Peebles

Known professionally as Jim or James Peebles, Philip James Edwin Peebles is a theoretical physicist whose work helped es...

Modern Cosmology Nobel Cmb

9.82 Brilliant

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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

During her doctoral research in 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified unusual, regularly repeating signals in radio tele...

Modern Radio Women Pulsars

9.72 Brilliant

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S. Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a twentieth-century astrophysicist whose mathematical work transformed understanding of s...

Twentieth Century Black Holes Stellar Nobel

9.70 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

Polish astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski made influential contributions to the study of stars and energetic events during...

Polish Twentieth Century Gamma Rays Microlensing

9.56 Brilliant

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Yakov Zel'dovich

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914-1987) was a Soviet physicist whose work extended from physical chemistry and nuclear p...

Cosmology Soviet Twentieth Century Large Scale Structure

9.55 Brilliant

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Dame Margaret Burbidge

Dame Margaret Burbidge fundamentally advanced our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic chemical enrichment. H...

Twentieth Century Women Galaxies Nucleosynthesis

9.38 Excellent

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Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a twentieth-century Dutch astronomer whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of the Milky Way gal...

Dutch Twentieth Century Galactic Oort Cloud

9.35 Excellent

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Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Alfvén was a Swedish plasma physicist and electrical engineer who made foundational contributions to the field of...

Cosmology 20TH Century Plasma Physics

9.31 Excellent

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Uros Seljak

Uroš Seljak is a Slovenian-American cosmologist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of cosmic mi...

Contemporary Cosmology Theoretical Cmb

9.28 Excellent

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Alexandre Friedmann

Alexandre Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician who made significant contributions to cosmology...

Russian Cosmology General Relativity Early 20TH

9.27 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American astronomer renowned for his pioneering research into interstellar space and plasma phy...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.25 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke was a prominent American astronomer who led research at Princeton University focused on cosmology. His t...

American Cosmology Historical Cmb

9.25 Excellent

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Matias Zaldarriaga

Matias Zaldarriaga is a prominent Argentine-American theoretical astrophysicist specializing in cosmology. He is a profe...

Contemporary Cosmology Theoretical Cmb

9.23 Excellent

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J. Richard Bond

J. Richard Bond is a Canadian theoretical cosmologist and professor at the University of Toronto. He has contributed to...

Contemporary Cosmology Canadian Theoretical

9.21 Excellent

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Shri Kulkarni

Shri Kulkarni is a Caltech astronomer specializing in modern astrophysics. His research focuses on pulsars, gamma-ray bu...

Modern Pulsars Caltech Transients

9.18 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was a twentieth-century American astronomer whose pioneering work fundamentally reshaped our unders...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.15 Excellent

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Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Viatcheslav Mukhanov is a Russian astronomer specializing in contemporary cosmology. His research focuses on quantum flu...

Russian Cosmology Inflation Current

9.15 Excellent

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Robert Dicke

Robert Dicke was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in cosmology. He significantly contributed to...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Cmb

8.85 Great

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Allan Sandage

Allan Sandage was a prominent 20th-century American astronomer specializing in cosmology. His meticulous work at Mount W...

American Cosmology Twentieth Century Distance Scale

8.75 Great

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Chushiro Hayashi

Chushiro Hayashi was a twentieth-century Japanese astronomer whose work significantly advanced cosmology. He is particul...

Cosmology Japanese Twentieth Century Stellar

8.60 Great