Astronomers And Astrophysicists
24 entries in the Astronomers And Astrophysicists compendium.
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Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer who co-discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.Edward Charles PickeringAmerican astronomer who discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars and advanced stellEjnar HertzsprungDanish chemist and astronomer who co-developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.George Ellery HaleAstrophysicist who discovered magnetic fields in sunspots and built major observatories.George SmootNobel laureate who measured the seeds of cosmic structure.Georges LemaîtreBelgian priest and physicist who first proposed the Big Bang theory.Giovanni Domenico CassiniGiovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and enGuo ShoujingChinese astronomer and engineer who calculated a year length 26 seconds off modern value.Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias OlbersGerman astronomer who discovered asteroids and formulated Olbers's paradox.Henrietta Swan LeavittDiscovered the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars.Henry Norris RussellAmerican astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.Lyman SpitzerTheoretical physicist, astronomer, and mountaineer who pioneered space telescopes.Margaret BurbidgeFounder of stellar nucleosynthesis and pioneering astronomer.Maria CunitzSilesian astronomer who simplified Kepler's planetary tables.Maria Margaretha KirchGerman astronomer who discovered a comet and published under her own name.Maria MitchellAmerican astronomer who discovered a comet and became a pioneering professor.Mary Watson WhitneyMary Watson Whitney (1847–1921) was an American astronomer who directed the Vassar CollegeNancy RomanAmerican astronomer and first female executive at NASA.Neil deGrasse TysonAmerican astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium.Reinhard GenzelGerman astrophysicist who co-discovered the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.Riccardo GiacconiItalian-American astrophysicist who pioneered X-ray astronomy.Sandra FaberAstrophysicist who co-discovered the Faber–Jackson relation.Saul PerlmutterAstrophysicist who co-discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe.William HerschelBaltic German astronomer and geodesist known for studying double stars and initiating the
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