swap_horiz Urbain Le Verrier Alternatives

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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

9.8 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.4 Excellent

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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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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who independently plotted stellar luminosity against spectral type in 19...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.2 Excellent

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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...

Modern Space Nobel Cmb

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...

Modern Pulsars Caltech Transients

9.2 Excellent

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Ewine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch astrochemist at Leiden Observatory, awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize for work on molecules in...

Modern Women Star Formation Astrochemistry

9.1 Excellent

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer who measured the first reliable stellar parallax, for 61 Cygni, in 1838...

Parallax Nineteenth Century Stars Astrometry

8.9 Great

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John Herschel

John Herschel was a British astronomer who surveyed southern skies from South Africa in the 1830s and cataloged nebulae...

Southern Nineteenth Century Catalogs Nebulae

8.8 Great

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer who studied double stars and founded Pulkovo Observato...

Russian Nineteenth Century Astrometry Binary Stars

8.2 Great

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Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847 and became the first female professor at Vassar...

American Women Comets Nineteenth Century

7.7 Good

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Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer who observed Neptune on 23 September 1846 using Le Verrier's predicted po...

German Observational Nineteenth Century Neptune

7.6 Good