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The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
2000 Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive, People magazine [142] 2001 asteroid named: 13123 Tyson, renamed from Asteroid 1994KA by the International Astronomical Union; 2001 The Tech 100, voted by editors of Crain's Magazine to be among the 100 most influential technology leaders in New York; 2004 Fifty Most Important African-Americans in Research ...
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author; Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) invented the theory of twins, CPT-symmetric universes; Allan Sandage (1936–2010) set the cosmological distance scale and accurately estimated the speed of expansion of the universe
A popular-level collection of essays, interviews, and talks titled Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays was published in 1993, [176] and a six-part television series Stephen Hawking's Universe and a companion book appeared in 1997. As Hawking insisted, this time the focus was entirely on science.
The Chandra Astrophysics Institute (CAI) is a program offered for high school students who are interested in astrophysics mentored by MIT scientists [45] and sponsored by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. [46] Carl Sagan praised him in the book The Demon-Haunted World: "I discovered what true mathematical elegance is from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar."
Michio Kaku (Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄, / ˈ m iː tʃ i oʊ ˈ k ɑː k uː /; born January 24, 1947) is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kepler has acquired a popular image as an icon of scientific modernity and a man before his time; science popularizer Carl Sagan described him as "the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer". [125] The debate over Kepler's place in the Scientific Revolution has produced a wide variety of philosophical and popular treatments.
Katie Mack (astrophysicist) – United States (born 1981) Gladys Mackenzie – Scotland (1903–1972) Ray Mackintosh – U.K. Luciano Maiani – Italy, San Marino (born 1941) Theodore Maiman – United States (1927–2007) Arthur Maitland – U.K. (1925–1994) Ettore Majorana – Italy (1906–1938 presumed dead) Sudhansu Datta Majumdar ...