- male, deceased (1997)
- Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle...
- male
- Adam Riess is an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using...
- male, deceased (1916)
- Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild. He was born in Frankfurt am...
- male, 71 years old
- Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (Marathi: प्रा. जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) is an eminent Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is considered a l...
- male, deceased (1944)
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (December 28, 1882 - November 22, 1944) was an astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the...
- male, deceased (1972)
- Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer. He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a...
- female, 41 years old
- Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
- male
- Chris Lintott is an astrophysicist. He is best known for his role as co-presenter of the BBC series "The Sky at Night" with Patrick Moore. He is...
- male, deceased (1931)
- Riccardo Giacconi , the "father of X-ray astronomy," has received the Nobel Prize in physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," which...
- male, 59 years old
- Scott Tremaine completed his BSc. at McMaster University in 1971, then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He held postdoctoral...
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