Neil deGrasse Tyson05 October 1958, American
Astrophysicist
Carl Sagan09 November 1934, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Writer
J. Allen Hynek01 May 1910, American
Astronomer, Ufologist
Robert Hofstadter05 February 1915, American
Physicist
William Alfred Fowler09 August 1911, American
Nuclear Physicist and Astrophysicist
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.29 March 1941, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Walter Lewin29 January 1936
Astronomer, University teacher, Astrophysicist,
Margaret Burbidge12 August 1919, British, American
Astrophysicist
Lawrence M. Krauss27 May 1954, American
Astronomer, Physicist, Astrophysicist, Academic,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943, British
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Martin Rees23 June 1942, British
Cosmologist
Max Tegmark05 May 1967, Swedish, American
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938, Indian
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Brian Schmidt24 February 1967, Australian, American
Vice-Chancellor
Rainer Weiss29 September 1932, German, American
Physicist
Dennis W. Sciama18 November 1926, British
Physicist, Astrophysicist
Hubert Reeves13 July 1932, Canadian
Popularizer of science, Astrophysicist, Science
Michael Foale06 January 1957, American
Astronaut, Astrophysicist, Physicist
Hannes Alfvén30 May 1908, Swedish
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Engineer,
Adam Riess16 December 1969, American
Professor
Lyman Spitzer26 June 1914, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Physicist, University
Thomas Gold22 May 1920, Austrian, British, American
Professor
John C. Mather07 August 1946, American
Astrophysicist
Riccardo Giacconi06 October 1931, Italian
Astrophysicist
Robert H. Dicke06 May 1916, American
Astronomer
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.29 March 1941, American
Astrophysicist
Margherita Hack12 June 1922, Italian
Astrophysicist
Fang Lizhi12 February 1936, Chinese
Astrophysicist
Geoffrey Burbidge24 September 1925, British
Professor
Martin Schwarzschild31 May 1912, German, American
Astrophysicist
John N. Bahcall30 December 1934, American
Astrophysicist
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Rashid Sunyaev01 March 1943, Russian
Astrophysicist
Dirk Frimout21 March 1941, Belgian
Astrophysicist
Andrew E. Lange23 July 1957, American
Astrophysicist
Edwin Ernest Salpeter03 December 1924, Austrian, Australian, American
Astrophysicist
Alexei Filippenko25 July 1958, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University teacher
James Edward Keeler10 September 1857, American
Astronomer
Gerson Goldhaber20 February 1924, German, American
Physicist
William Wilson Morgan03 January 1906, American
Astronomer
Hermann Carl Vogel03 April 1841, German
Astrophysicist
David Schramm25 October 1945, American
Educator
Bengt Strömgren21 January 1908, Danish, Swedish
Astronomer
Robert Emden04 March 1862, Swiss
Astrophysicist
Pol Swings24 September 1906, Belgian
Astronomer
Ken Freeman27 August 1940, Australian
Astronomer
Bohdan Paczynski08 February 1940, Polish
Astrophysicist
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov01 January 1907, Russian
Scientist
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kozyrev02 September 1908, Russian
Astronomer