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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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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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Cecilia Payne

Cecilia Payne, later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, was a British-born astronomer whose 1925 doctoral thesis changed the unde...

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9.65 Brilliant

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Bohdan Paczynski

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

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9.56 Brilliant

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Claudius Ptolemy

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9.55 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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Eleanor Margaret Burbidge

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge was a pioneering British astronomer renowned for her significant contributions to our understa...

Historical British Galaxies Spectroscopy

9.35 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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Vesto Slipher

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Twentieth Century Galaxies Spectroscopy Redshift

8.85 Great

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Nancy Grace Roman

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8.80 Great

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Beatrice Tinsley

Beatrice Tinsley was an influential twentieth-century astronomer specializing in galaxy evolution. Her pioneering work d...

Evolution Twentieth Century Women Galaxies

8.25 Great

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Caroline Herschel

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8.24 Great

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Edward Charles Pickering

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8.16 Great

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Kent Ford

W. Kent Ford was an American astronomer and instrument designer known for his work in advancing astronomical spectroscop...

American Twentieth Century Dark Matter Spectroscopy

7.95 Good

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Carolyn Shoemaker

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Planetary Twentieth Century Women Comets

7.85 Good

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Andrea Dupree

Andrea Dupree is an American astrophysicist associated with the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian. Her re...

Modern Women Spectroscopy Stellar

7.84 Good

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Antonia Maury

Antonia Maury (1866–1952) was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory under Edward Charles...

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7.31 Good

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W. Kent Ford Jr.

W. Kent Ford Jr. was an American astronomer and physicist who worked at the Carnegie Institution for Science. In the 197...

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7.19 Good