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Andrea M. Ghez

American astronomer Andrea M. Ghez studies the center of the Milky Way, where observations of stellar motion reveal an e...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

9.55 Brilliant

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Joe Taylor

Born in 1941, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist associated with precision studies of pulsars. He sh...

American Nobel Prize Late 20TH Binary Pulsar

9.49 Excellent

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Edmund Halley

Edmond Halley (1656–1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and geophysicist who served as the second Astronomer...

British Comets Proper Motion 17TH 18TH Century

9.48 Excellent

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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

9.42 Excellent

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Charles Bennett

Charles L. Bennett is an American observational cosmologist who served as principal investigator for NASA's Wilkinson Mi...

American Contemporary Observational Cmb

9.42 Excellent

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Allan Rex Sandage

Allan Rex Sandage was an American observational astronomer who took over Edwin Hubble's cosmological research program at...

American Cosmology Observational Mid 20TH Century

7.92 Good

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Lyman Spitzer Jr.

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer whose work contributed to plasma physics, stellar...

American Theoretical Mid 20TH Century Ism

7.84 Good

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Carolyn S. Shoemaker

Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021) was an American astronomer who became one of the most prolific discoverers of comets in...

Modern American Planetary Comets

7.82 Good

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Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer who, in 1847, discovered a comet subsequently named "Miss Mitchell's Comet." T...

American Women Comets Nineteenth Century

7.67 Good

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Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist who received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Russell...

American Pulsars Nobel Mid 20TH Century

7.58 Good

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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer whose work focused on comets, meteors, and artificial satellites. In 19...

Theory 20TH Century Solar System Comets

7.49 Good

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Russell Alan Hulse

Russell Alan Hulse (born 1950) is an American physicist who, as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Am...

American Pulsars Nobel Mid 20TH Century

7.38 Good

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Edward Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his observational work in the late 19th and early 20th ce...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.22 Good

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William Morgan

William Wilson Morgan (1906–1994) was an American astronomer associated with Yerkes Observatory and the University of Ch...

American Stellar Classification Galactic Mid 20TH Century

6.93 Fair

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Jesse Greenstein

Jesse L. Greenstein was an American astronomer whose research centered on stellar spectroscopy and the physical properti...

American Spectroscopy Stellar Quasars

6.83 Fair

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Donald Osterbrock

Donald Osterbrock (1924–2007) was an American astronomer who served as the director of the Lick Observatory in Californi...

American Spectroscopy Nebulae Mid 20TH Century

6.74 Fair

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Henrietta Hill Swope

Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer associated with the Carnegie Institution whose work helped establish dis...

American Observational Photometry Mid 20TH Century

6.17 Fair

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Hal Weaver

Hal Weaver is an American planetary scientist and astronomer whose research includes comets and other small bodies in th...

American Contemporary Solar System Comets

5.98 Mediocre

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Eleanor Helin

Eleanor Helin (1932-2009) was an American astronomer who studied asteroids and comets, especially objects that pass clos...

American Survey Historical Solar System

5.98 Mediocre

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Clark R. Chapman

Clark R. Chapman is an American planetary scientist whose research focuses on asteroids, impact cratering, and the geolo...

American Contemporary Solar System Asteroids

5.98 Mediocre