Robert Kirshner

male
Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Quincy House, Center for Astrophysics, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, AmericanAstronomicalSociety…American
Robert Kirshner is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and an Associate Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He...
Reuven Ramaty

Reuven Ramaty

male, deceased (2001)
solar physics, HESSI, Small Explorer, American, gamma-ray astronomy, NASA…American Physical Society, AmericanAstronomicalSociety
Reuven Ramaty was a pioneer in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and cosmic rays. He was a HESSI...
Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez

female
Astronomer, Ph.D., Keck telescopes, adaptive optics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supermassive black hole…AmericanAstronomicalSociety, American
A world-class observational astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at UCLA, Andrea Ghez 's discoveries have won her awards and fellowships,...

Richard P. Binzel

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, guide dog, planetary science, near-Earth object, H. C. Urey Prize, dwarf planet…AmericanAstronomicalSociety, international astronomical union, American
Richard (Rick) P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the inventor of the Torino Scale,...
Anneila Sargent

Anneila Sargent

female, 67 years old
Astronomer, 18244 Anneila, NASA Public Service Medal, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, star formation, AmericanAstronomicalSociety…American
Anneila Sargent (born 1942) is a Scottish-American astronomer, who specializes in star formation. Sargent completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics...
George van Biesbroeck

George van Biesbroeck

male, deceased (1974)
Comet discoverer, variable star, Astronomer, World War I, Belgian American, asteroid…American, AmericanAstronomicalSociety
George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck was a Belgian-American astronomer. He discovered the periodic comet 53P/Van Biesbroeck,...
Dorrit Hoffleit

Dorrit Hoffleit

female, deceased (2007) (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
Radcliffe College, Harvard College Observatory, Centenarian, Yale, Harvard, Kinematics…American, AmericanAstronomicalSociety
Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (March 12, 1907 - April 9, 2007) was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University. Hoffleit was born in...
David Schramm

David Schramm

male, deceased (1997)
From st. louis, missouri, American Physical Society, dark matter, Caltech, physics, Astrophysicist…American, AmericanAstronomicalSociety, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
David Norman Schramm (October 25, 1945 - December 19, 1997) was an American astrophysicist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a Ph.D in...

Bradley E. Schaefer

male
Dr. Bradley E. Schaefer, dwarf planet, Pluto, Louisiana State University, star catalog, earth…AmericanAstronomicalSociety
Dr. Bradley E. Schaefer is a professor of physics at LSU. He received his PhD from MIT in 1983. His research interests include the use of...
Sallie Baliunas

Sallie Baliunas

female
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Lithuanian-American, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, angular momentum, World Climate Report, George C. Marshall Institute…AmericanAstronomicalSociety, American
Sallie Baliunas is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division and...