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Bahcall, John N.

Bardeen, James Maxwell, 1939-

Bederson, Benjamin

Bennett, Charles L. (Charles Leonard), 1956-

Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

Christy, Robert F.

Crew, Henry, 1859-1953

Davis, Raymond, 1914-2006

Delbrück, Max

DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004

Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

Donahue, Thomas M.

Drell, Persis S.

Fisch, N. J.

Fowler, William A.

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

Gehrels, Neil

Geller, Margaret J.

Giacconi, Riccardo

Greisen, Kenneth

Guth, Alan H.

Hartle, J. B. (James B.)

Haxton, Wick C.

Henyey, Louis G., 1910-1970

Hess, Victor Francis, 1883-1964

Hewish, A.

Howard, Louis N.

Hulse, R. A.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Kaspi, Victoria Michelle, 1967-

Kennel, Charles F., 1939-

Koshiba, Masatoshi, 1926-2020

Kraushaar, William L.

Kulsrud, R. M.

Lange, Andrew

Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Leighton, Robert B.

Lin, C. C. (Chia-Chʻiao), 1916-2013

Linde, A. D.

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992

Mather, John C.

McKee, Christopher, 1942-

Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976

Morrison, Philip

Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

Ney, Edward Purdy, 1920-

Paczyński, Bohdan

Parker, E. N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-

Peale, Stanton Jerrold

Perlmutter, Saul

Pines, David, 1924-2018

Price, Paul Buford

Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1923-2000

Richards, Paul L. (Paul Linford)

Riess, Adam, 1969-

Robertson, R. G. Hamish, 1943-

Rosner, Robert

Rossi, Bruno, 1905-1993

Ruderman, Malvin A.

Ryle, Martin, 1918-1984

Schmidt, Brian, 1967-

Schramm, David N.

Smoot, George

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997

Spruch, Larry

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Stix, Thomas Howard

Tarter, C. Bruce

Taylor, Joseph H. (Joseph Hooton)

Teukolsky, Saul A. (Saul Arno), 1947-

Thorne, Kip S.

Turner, Michael Stanley

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Weiss, Rainer

Will, Clifford M., 1946-

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Woosley, Stanford E.

York, James W., Jr., 1939-

Institutions

Johns Hopkins University. Department of Physics

Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics

New York University. Department of Physics

Rutgers University. Department of Physics and Astronomy

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of Physics

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Pittsburgh. Department of Physics

University of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Washington. Department of Physics

University of Wisconsin--Madison. Department of Physics

Yale University. Physics Department