John C. Mather

John C. Mather

male, 63 years old
John Cromwell Mather (b. August 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia), is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. Mather is a senior astrophysicist at...
George Smoot

George Smoot

male, 64 years old
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John...
Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson

male, 73 years old
Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, together with Arno Allan Penzias,...

Robert Herman

male
Robert Herman was a United States scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948-50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic...
Jim Peebles

Jim Peebles

male, 74 years old
Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25 1935) is an Canadian-American physicist and theoretical cosmologist. He is usually known by the name...
Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Sunyaev

male, 66 years old
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, on March 1, 1943 in a Tatar family and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and...

A. G. Doroshkevich

male
A. G. Doroshkevich is a Russian (and former Soviet) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. He is best known for his work with Igor Novikov on...

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman

male, deceased (1925)
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman or Friedmann (June 16 1888, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia - September 16 1925, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian...
Ralph Asher Alpher

Ralph Asher Alpher

male, 88 years old
Ralph Asher Alpher (born 1921) is a U.S. cosmologist. Alpher was something of a child prodigy, and at the age of 16 he was offered a scholarship to...