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120569 Huangrunqian

It is named after Huang Runqian, an astrophysicist and educator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

21821 Billryan

It is named after William H. Ryan, an astrophysicist at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in Socorro County, New Mexico.

4589 McDowell

It is named after Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the editor of Jonathan's Space Report.

49443 Marcobondi

It is named after Marco Bondi, an Italian astrophysicist at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica.

Angioletta Coradini

Angioletta Coradini (born 1 July 1946, Rovereto, Italy – died 5 September 2011, Rome, Italy) was an Italian astrophysicist, planetary scientist and one of the most important figures in the space sciences in Italy.

Armenians in Russia

Tateos Agekian (1913–2006), astrophysicist, one of the pioneers of Stellar Dynamics

Arthur King

Arthur Scott King (1876–1957), American physicist and astrophysicist

Arthur Michael Wolfe

Arthur Michael Wolfe (born 29 April 1939, Brooklyn) is an American astrophysicist, professor and the former Director of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.

Benford

Gregory Benford, American science fiction author and astrophysicist

Blanketing effect

The term originates in a 1928 article by astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, where it was used to describe the effects that the astronomical metals in a star's outer regions had on that star's spectrum.

Bugun Liocichla

The species was described in 2006 after being discovered in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India, by an astrophysicist, Ramana Athreya.

Chalonge

Daniel Chalonge (1895–1977), French astronomer and astrophysicist

Charles Abbot

Charles Greeley Abbot (1872–1973), American astrophysicist and astronomer

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

Following Sagan's death in 1996, his widow Ann Druyan, the co-creator of the original Cosmos series along with Steven Soter, a producer from the series, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, sought to create a new version of the series, aimed to appeal to as wide an audience as possible and not just to those interested in the sciences.

Doug Levitt

Levitt attended Cornell University, where he was a student of the late-astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan.

Edward Milne

Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), British mathematician and astrophysicist

Enrique Gaviola

Born and died in Mendoza, Argentina was an Argentine astrophysicist of worldwide renown.

Femtotechnology

For example, the astrophysicist Frank Drake once speculated about the possibility of self-replicating organisms composed of such nuclear molecules living on the surface of a neutron star, a suggestion taken up in the science fiction novel Dragon's Egg by the physicist Robert Forward.

Frank McDonald

Frank B. McDonald (1925–2012), astrophysicist and creator of the Voyager probe

Gail Saltz

The sister of Nobel Prizing winning astrophysicist Adam Riess,Dr.

Gilbert School

Joan M. Centrella '71, astrophysicist; head of the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Hans Ludendorff

Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Ludendorff (Dunowo, 26 May 1873 - Potsdam, 26 June 1941) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.

Hayden Planetarium

The Hayden Planetarium (often called "The Hayden Sphere" or "The Great Sphere") is a public planetarium, part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, currently directed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Holometer

Craig Hogan, a particle astrophysicist at Fermilab, states about the experiment, "What we’re looking for is when the lasers lose step with each other. We’re trying to detect the smallest unit in the universe. This is really great fun, a sort of old-fashioned physics experiment where you don’t know what the result will be."

Icke

Vincent Icke, a Dutch cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist after whom the asteroid 7508 Icke was named

Incident at Raven's Gate

The cast of Incident at Raven's Gate included long-term Australian stage and screen actor Max Cullen, as a policeman, and Terry Camilleri as an astrophysicist attached to Special Branch, investigating unexplained radar signals in a remote South Australian country town.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

John Mather

John C. Mather (born 1946), American Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist and cosmologist

John-David F. Bartoe

John-David Francis Bartoe (b. November 17, 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American astrophysicist.

Kaspi

:For other uses, see Victoria Kaspi (born 1967), an American/Canadian astrophysicist.

Margaret Burbidge

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (née Peachey), FRS (born August 12, 1919 Davenport) is a British-born American astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Michael J. Kurtz

Michael J Kurtz is an astrophysicist at Harvard University, He has held the title of Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1983, and the addition post of Computer Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1984.

MUL.APIN

Astrophysicist Bradley Schaefer claims that the observations reported in these tablets were made in the region of Assur at around the year 1370 BC.

Navarro–Frenk–White profile

The Navarro–Frenk–White profile or NFW profile is a spatial mass distribution of dark matter fitted to dark matter haloes identified in N-body simulations by Julio Navarro, Carlos Frenk and Simon White.

Origins Institute

Ralph Pudritz, an established theoretical astrophysicist from McMaster, spearheaded the OI project and is its first director.

Pavel Kroupa

Pavel Kroupa (born 24 September 1963 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is an Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn.

Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.

Riccardo Giacconi

Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian - American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy.

Secular Humanist League of Brazil

The event featured prominent humanists such as Portuguese philosopher Desidério Murcho, Brazilian skeptic Kentaro Mori, Brazilian astrophysicist Horacio Dottori, among others.

Solar variation

On 6 May 2000, New Scientist magazine reported that Lassen and astrophysicist Peter Thejll had updated Friis-Christensen and Lassen's 1991 research (which originally only went to 1989) and found that while the solar cycle still accounts for about half the temperature rise since 1900, it fails to explain a rise of 0.4 °C since 1980.

Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe

The series includes interviews with astrophysicist Kim Weaver, Bernard Carr, a student of Hawking's, and three theoretical physicists: Michio Kaku, Edward Witten, known for his work on superstring theory, and Lisa Randall.

Steven Soter

Steven Soter is an astrophysicist currently holding the positions of scientist-in-residence for New York University's Environmental Studies Program and of Research Associate for the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

T Pyxidis

Because of its relative proximity, some—in particular, Edward Sion, astronomer & astrophysicist at Villanova University, and his team therefrom—contend that a type 1a supernova could have a significant impact on Earth.

UFO Baby

: Yū is Miyu's astrophysicist father; he helps his wife with her work and is also hired by NASA.

Vectorial Mechanics

Vectorial Mechanics (1948) is a book on vector manipulation (i.e., vector methods) by Edward Arthur Milne, a highly decorated (e.g., James Scott Prize Lectureship) British astrophysicist and mathematician.

Wendover

The astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who first postulated that the universe was made up primarily of lighter elements such as hydrogen, was born in Wendover in 1900.

Wrinkles in Time

On April 23, 1992 a scientific team led by astrophysicist George Smoot announced that they had found the primordial "seeds" from which the universe has grown.


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