Astrophysicists Astrophysicists Alan P. Boss is an American astrophysicist. Educated at the University of South Florida and the University of Southern California Boss is now a world leader in stellar and planetary system formation and the study of extrasolar planets, having published dozens of articles in this and related fields. He is currently a Staff Member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Boss"
Alejandro Corichi is a theoretical physicist working at the Department of Gravitation and Field Theory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM). He obtained his bachelor degree at UNAM and his PhD at Pennsylvania State University (1997). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alejandro Corichi"
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM ( December 28, 1882 – November 22, 1944) was arguably the most important astrophysicist from the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity that can be radiated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Stanley Eddington"
Boris Aleksandrovich Vorontsov-Velyaminov (Борис Александрович Воронцов-Вельяминов) ( February 14 1904 – January 27 1994) was a Soviet/ Russian astrophysicist. His name is sometimes given as Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov"
Charles Greeley Abbot ( May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Greeley Abbot"
Cheick Modibo Diarra (b. 1952, Nioro du Sahel) is a Malian astrophysicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheick Modibo Diarra"
Chris Aikman spent most of his career (from 1968 to 1997) as an astrophysicist at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. His initial research was on the spectroscopy of chemically peculiar stars, whose surface compositions differ markedly from that of the Sun, with the aim of understanding the origin of their anomalies. From 1991, he conducted a program of tracking Earth approaching asteroids with the historic telescope built by John S. Plaskett, ...more on Wikipedia about "Chris Aikman"
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David Norman Schramm ( October 25, 1945 – December 19, 1997) was an American astrophysicist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a Ph.D in physics at Caltech in 1971, and went on to become one of the world's foremost experts on the Big Bang theory and an early proponent of the theory of dark matter. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Schramm"
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian astrophysicist, author and musician who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fiorella Terenzi"
Frank Shu (born in Kunming, China), is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and the university president of the National Tsing Hua University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Shu"
Hubert Reeves (born July 13 1932 in Montreal, Quebec) is an astrophysicist and a well-known science popularizer. He has been a Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique since 1965 and currently lives in France where he often speaks on television promoting science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubert Reeves"
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Ио́сиф Самуи́лович Шкло́вский) ( July 1 1916 – March 3 1985) was a Soviet/ Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky"
J. Richard Fisher is an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Charlottesville, VA. He, along with R. Brent Tully, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies (published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 54, No. 3, February 1977). ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Richard Fisher"
Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929) is an eminent Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of Dark Matter and of the cellular structure of the Universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jaan Einasto"
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Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947 in Mexico City) is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. He is Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a recipient of the Rothschild Prize. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacob Bekenstein"
James B. Pollack ( 1938 – 1994) was an American astrophysicist. He worked for NASA's Ames Research Center. ...more on Wikipedia about "James B. Pollack"
Jan Hendrik Oort ( April 28, 1900 – November 5, 1992) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. He profoundly stimulated radio astronomy. The well-known Oort cloud bears his name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jan Oort"
Narlikar, Prof. Jayant Vishnu (b. July 19,1938) (Marathi: प्रा.जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) is an eminent Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is considered a leading expert and defender of the steady state cosmology. His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle , called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Mach’s principle. India’s second highest civilian honour, Padma vibhushan, was awarded to him for his work. Prof. Narlikar is the founder' Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) at Pune, India. As a science fiction writer, Prof. Narlikar is active in popularising science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jayant Narlikar"
Jeremiah (Jerry) Paul Ostriker (b. 1937) is a distinguished astrophysicist at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Harvard, his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, and then carried out post-doctoral work at Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and served as Provost there from 1995 to 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeremiah P. Ostriker"
Johannes Kepler ( December 27 1571 – November 15 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German Lutheran mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johannes Kepler"
John N. Bahcall ( December 30 1934 – August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. ...more on Wikipedia about "John N. Bahcall"
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John Quincy Stewart ( September 10 1894 – March 19 1972) was an American astrophysicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Quincy Stewart"
Jonathan Homer Lane ( August 9, 1819, Geneseo, New York – May 3, 1880, Washington D.C.) was an American astrophysicist and inventor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jonathan Homer Lane"
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 student Russell Alan Hulse, for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr."
Julio César Gutiérrez-Vega is a Mexican physicist. He received his B.S. on Engineering Physics at ITESM, and obtained his Ph.D in optics from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Mexico, in 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julio Cesar Gutierrez Vega"
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