Astronomers And Astrophysicists Codexery

A source-cited reference to astronomers and astrophysicists

Astronomers And Astrophysicists (24)

• Didier Queloz — Swiss astronomer who co-discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.
• Edward Charles Pickering — American astronomer who discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars and advanced stellar photography.
• Ejnar Hertzsprung — Danish chemist and astronomer who co-developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
• George Ellery Hale — Astrophysicist who discovered magnetic fields in sunspots and built major observatories.
• George Smoot — Nobel laureate who measured the seeds of cosmic structure.
• Georges Lemaître — Belgian priest and physicist who first proposed the Big Bang theory.
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini — Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and engineer, was born in…
• Guo Shoujing — Chinese astronomer and engineer who calculated a year length 26 seconds off modern value.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers — German astronomer who discovered asteroids and formulated Olbers's paradox.
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt — Discovered the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars.
• Henry Norris Russell — American astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
• Lyman Spitzer — Theoretical physicist, astronomer, and mountaineer who pioneered space telescopes.
• Margaret Burbidge — Founder of stellar nucleosynthesis and pioneering astronomer.
• Maria Cunitz — Silesian astronomer who simplified Kepler's planetary tables.
• Maria Margaretha Kirch — German astronomer who discovered a comet and published under her own name.
• Maria Mitchell — American astronomer who discovered a comet and became a pioneering professor.
• Mary Watson Whitney — Mary Watson Whitney (1847–1921) was an American astronomer who directed the Vassar College Observatory for more than…
• Nancy Roman — American astronomer and first female executive at NASA.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson — American astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium.
• Reinhard Genzel — German astrophysicist who co-discovered the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.
• Riccardo Giacconi — Italian-American astrophysicist who pioneered X-ray astronomy.
• Sandra Faber — American astrophysicist known for the Faber–Jackson relation and dark matter research.
• Saul Perlmutter — Astrophysicist who co-discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe.
• William Herschel — Discoverer of Uranus and infrared radiation

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