Laurance Doyle

Laurance Doyle

male
Christian, Master's Degree, baby, jupiter, bachelor, cambria…Astrophysicist
Laurance R. Doyle is a scientist who received his PhD from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He has worked at SETI since 1987 where he is...
Eric Chaisson

Eric Chaisson

male
Harvard University, Space Telescope Science Institute, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory, Milky Way galaxy, Big History…Astrophysicist
Eric Chaisson , a cosmologist and head of the Wright Center, notes that the world around us is literally changing all the time. From galaxies and...
Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

male, deceased (1695)
law of motion, Newton's laws of motion, Dutch Christian, New Latin author, Dutch music theorist, titan…Astrophysicist
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English : ; in Dutch:) (April 14, 1629 - July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born...
Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke

male, deceased (1997)
physicist, Astronomer, Cosmologist, contributor to general relativity, Astrophysicist, gravity
Robert Henry Dicke (May 6 1916 - March 4 1997) was an American physicist, who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic...
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

male, 68 years old
Astronomer, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel laureate in Physics, American, Albert Einstein Medal recipient, Astrophysicist
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his former...
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Jean-Pierre Luminet

male, 58 years old
French, observatory, black hole, Astrophysicist, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specialized in black holes and cosmology. He works as research director for the CNRS ("Centre...
Frank Shu

Frank Shu

male
University of California, San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, giant molecular cloud core, university president, spiral density wave, evolution of star…Astrophysicist
Frank Shu (born in Kunming, China), is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, San Diego and the...
Grote Reber

Grote Reber

male, deceased (2002)
scientist, expatriate, from Wheaton, Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology alumni, amateur radio operator, survey…Astrophysicist
Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 - December 20, 2002) was one of the pioneers of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in repeating Karl Jansky's...
Martin Schwarzschild

Martin Schwarzschild

male, deceased (1997)
Jewish, Astronomer, German-American, German, scientist, Astrophysicist
Martin Schwarzschild (May 31 1912 - April 10 1997) was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and...
Donald Lynden-Bell

Donald Lynden-Bell

male, 74 years old
Old Marlburian, Astronomer, Great Attractor, Institute of Astronomy, seven samurai, University of Cambridge…Astrophysicist
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (born Dover, England April 5 1935) is a British astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain...