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Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
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German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
Iosif Shklovsky
Soviet astronomer (1916–1985)
Ralph Asher Alpher
American cosmologist (1921–2007)
David H. Levy
Canadian astronomer (born 1948)
Gersonides
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.
Bruno Rossi
Italian experimental physicist (1905–1993)
Wendy Freedman
Canadian-American astronomer
Grigory Abramovich Shajn
Soviet astronomer (1892-1956)
Victoria Kaspi
Canadian astrophysicist
David Gans
German scientist
Jesse L. Greenstein
American astronomer (1909–2002)
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
Greek rabbi (*1591 – †1655)
Alice Archenhold
German astronomist
Hayyim Selig Słonimski
Polish-Jewish mathematician and inventor
Elijah Mizrachi
Ottoman rabbi
Eduard Mahler
Austro-Hungarian scientist
Raphael Levi Hannover
German astronomer and mathematician
Pedro E. Zadunaisky
Argentine astronomer (1917–2009)
Bonet de Lattes
Jewish astrologer
Tsevi Mazeh
Israeli astronomer
Reysa Bernson
French astronomer
Isaac ibn Sid
astronomer
Judah ibn Verga
Spanish historian