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Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Robert Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
William Alfred Fowler
American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Joseph Hooton Taylor
American astronomer
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer (1877–1957)
Edward Charles Pickering
American astronomer (1846–1919)
Henry Draper
American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
George Ellery Hale
American astronomer (1868-1938)
William Henry Pickering
American astronomer (1858–1938)
Gregory Benford
science fiction author and astrophysicist
Lyman Spitzer
American astronomer (1914–1997)
Otto Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1897–1963)
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer (1862–1938)
Grote Reber
American pioneer of radio astronomy (1911–2002)
George William Hill
American astronomer and mathematician (1838–1914)
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician (1809–1880)
J. Allen Hynek
American astronomer (1910–1986)
Horace Parnell Tuttle
American astronomer (1837–1923)
John M. Grunsfeld
American astronaut and astronomer
Gerard K. O'Neill
American physicist and futurologist (1927–1992)
Carl Keenan Seyfert
American astronomer (1911–1960)
George Mary Searle
American astronomer (1839-1918)
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer (1824–1896)
Alan Hale
American astronomer and comet discoverer
George Nelson
American astronaut, astronomer
Seth Carlo Chandler
American astronomer (1846–1913)
John N. Bahcall
American physicist (1934–2005)
Forest Ray Moulton
American astronomer and mathematician of the XXth century (1872–1952)
William Robert Brooks
American astronomer (1844–1921)
Frank Elmore Ross
American astronomer and physicist (1874–1960)
William Wilson Morgan
American astronomer (1906–1994)
Alvan Clark
American astronomer and artist (1804-1887)
Alvan Graham Clark
American astronomer
Roy A. Tucker
American astronomer (1951–2021)
Lewis Boss
American astronomer (1846-1912)
Edward S. Holden
American astronomer (1846-1914)
Frank Schlesinger
United States astronomer (1871-1943)
DeLisle Stewart
American astronomer (1870–1941)
George Herbig
American astronomer (1920–2013)
Charles Augustus Young
American astronomer (1834–1908)
Andrew Ellicott Douglass
American astronomer and dendrochronologist (1867 - 1962)
Dorrit Hoffleit
American astronomer (1907–2007)
Joel Stebbins
American astronomer (1878–1966)
Royal Harwood Frost
American astronomer (1879-1950)
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
American astronomer
Charles L. Bennett
American astronomer
William Coblentz
American physicist (1873–1962)
George Willis Ritchey
American astronomer (1864–1945)
Frank Shu
American astronomer (1943–2023)
George Henry Peters
American astronomer and photographer (1863–1947)
John August Anderson
American astronomer (1876–1959)
Brian A. Skiff
American astronomer
Donald Howard Menzel
American astronomer (1901–1976)
William Hammond Wright
American astronomer (1871-1959)
Armin Otto Leuschner
American astronomer (1868–1953)
Robert Kirshner
American astronomer