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Françoise Combes (born 1952), French astrophysicist and educator; Lynn Cominsky (born 1953), American astrophysicist and educator; Janine Connes (born c. 1934), French astronomer; France A. Córdova (born 1947), American astrophysicist and administrator; Heather Couper (1949–2020), English astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser
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Shane Davis (astrophysicist) Rebekah Dawson; Bart De Pontieu; Craig Edward DeForest; Stanley Dermott; Alexander J. Dessler; Lynne Karen Deutsch; Tiziana Di Matteo (astrophysicist) Brenda Dingus; Neil Divine; Sheperd S. Doeleman; Robert C. Duncan (astrophysicist) Andrea Dupree; Neb Duric
2018: British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell received the special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her scientific achievements and "inspiring leadership", worth $3 million. She donated the entirety of the prize money towards the creation of scholarships to assist women, underrepresented minorities and refugees who are pursuing ...
As a five-year-old girl she was impressed by pictures of planets and galaxies as well as the 300 foot antenna dish of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. She also credits the Apollo 11 lunar mission as the inspiration to become a career scientist at NASA .
1925: Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin established that hydrogen is the most common element in stars, and thus the most abundant element in the universe. [ 79 ] 1926: Katharine Burr Blodgett was the first women to earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge .
Cosmic Eye [1] is a short 2012/2018 film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. [2] It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a woman called "Louise".
Rebecca Oppenheimer is an American astrophysicist and one of four curator/professors in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oppenheimer is a comparative exoplanetary scientist. She investigates planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.