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The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
Marc Davis (1947–) was lead astronomer of a survey of 50,000 high-redshift galaxies; Avishai Dekel (1951–) studied galaxy formation and large scale structure of the cosmos in dark matter-dark energy dominated universes
This is a list of lists of space scientists. List of cosmologists; List of aerospace engineers; Astronomer Royal; List of women astronomers; List of astronomers; List of French astronomers; List of minor planet discoverers; List of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists; List of Russian aerospace engineers
Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specialized in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy; Martha Locke Hazen (1931-2006), American astronomer; E. Ruth Hedeman (1910–2006), American solar astronomer; Mary Lea Heger (1897–1983), American astronomer who studied the interstellar medium; Charlene Heisler (1961-1999), Canadian ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower; Apostles of Linnaeus; List of Arab scientists and scholars; List of modern Arab scientists and engineers; List of archaeologists; Astronomer Royal; List of astronomers; List of French astronomers; List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science; List of biologists. List of biochemists; List of ...
Pages in category "American astronomers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 437 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Christine Wilson (scientist) – Canadian-American physicist and astronomer; Kenneth Geddes Wilson – United States (1936–2013) Nobel laureate; Robert R. Wilson – United States (1914–2000) Nobel laureate; Robert Woodrow Wilson – United States (born 1936) John R. Winckler – United States (1918–2001)