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Best 1 Jan Oort
Jan Oort

Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation in the 1920s and proposed the distant comet reservoir called the Oort cloud.

2 Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell was a British theoretical astrophysicist who proposed in 1969 that quasars are powered by accretion onto massive black holes.

3 Harlow Shapley

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer who used globular clusters in 1918 to place the Sun away from the Milky Way's center.

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