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Adi Zitrin
Adi Zitrin is an astronomer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel known for lens models of galaxy clusters that enabled records of the most distant galaxies.
Andrew Wetzel
Andrew Wetzel is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist, professor at UC Davis, who leads the Latte simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Augustus Oemler Jr.
Augustus Oemler Jr. is an astronomer and former Director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena whose studies of cluster galaxies established the morphology–density relation and the Butcher–Oemler effect.
Ben Moore (astrophysicist)
Ben Moore is a British computational astrophysicist and professor at the University of Zurich since 2002, known for supercomputer simulations of dark matter and galaxy formation.
Bernard Pagel
Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel (1930–2007) was a British astronomer and leading authority on chemical abundances, a pioneer of simple analytic models of galaxy chemical evolution.
Burçin Mutlu Pakdil
Burçin Mutlu Pakdil is a Turkish astrophysicist and Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, best known for describing Burçin's Galaxy, the first known double-ringed elliptical galaxy.
Chris Lintott
Chris Lintott is an English astrophysicist and broadcaster, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford, best known as co-founder of Galaxy Zoo and a presenter of the BBC's The Sky at Night.
David Merritt
David Merritt is an astrophysicist known for work on supermassive black holes and the dynamics of elliptical galaxies, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 2017.
Erika T. Hamden
Erika T. Hamden is an American astrophysicist who builds far-ultraviolet instruments to study the circumgalactic medium, leading the FIREBall-2 balloon telescope and proposed Eos and Hyperion missions.
Frank C. van den Bosch
Frank C. van den Bosch is a Dutch astronomer, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale, known for work on dark matter haloes and the galaxy–dark matter connection.
Fujita Akimi
Fujita Akimi (藤田 あき美) is a Japanese astrophysicist and lecturer at Shinshu University who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia and simulates starburst-driven winds and metal enrichment in dwarf galaxies.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937–2025) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton and Cambridge whose 1973 simulations showed galaxies are unstable without massive dark matter halos, helping launch dark matter cosmology.
Joop Schaye
Joop Schaye is an astronomer and full professor of galaxy formation at Leiden Observatory since 2011, who led the EAGLE cosmological simulation and leads the COLIBRE project.
José Luis Sérsic
José Luis Sérsic (1933–1993) was an Argentine astronomer at the Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba, a pioneer of Southern Hemisphere extragalactic astronomy known for the Sérsic profile.
Kenji Bekki
Kenji Bekki is a computational astrophysicist and professor at ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, known for supercomputer simulations of galaxy and star cluster formation.
Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist is a theoretical astrophysicist, the Mallinckrodt Professor at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, known for galaxy-formation simulations including Illustris and IllustrisTNG, and a 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recipient.
Lennox Cowie
Lennox Cowie is a British astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, known for deep Keck surveys of faint galaxies and work on the submillimetre background.
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer is an Italian-born computational astrophysicist at the University of Zurich, known for proposing a merger-driven direct-collapse mechanism for supermassive black hole formation in a 2010 Nature paper.
Mark Vogelsberger
Mark Vogelsberger is a German theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at MIT who works on galaxy formation and dark matter, and led the Illustris and IllustrisTNG universe simulations.
Michael Merrifield
Michael Merrifield is a British astronomer specializing in the kinematics and evolution of nearby galaxies, Professor of Astronomy at Nottingham from 1999 to 2024 and a founding Sixty Symbols contributor.
Paul L. Schechter
Paul L. Schechter is an American observational astronomer, emeritus professor at MIT and National Academy member, known for the Schechter galaxy luminosity function, the Press–Schechter relation, and gravitational lensing.
Paul M. Ricker
Paul M. Ricker is a computational astrophysicist, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who studies galaxy clusters, supernovae, and gravitational waves.
Philip F. Hopkins
Philip F. Hopkins is an American theoretical astrophysicist, the Ira S. Bowen Professor at Caltech, known for galaxy formation research and for leading the FIRE simulations and developing the GIZMO code.
Piero Madau
Piero Madau is an Italian theoretical astrophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for measuring the cosmic star-formation history and winning the 2014 Heineman Prize.
Piet Hut
Piet Hut, full name Pieter Hut, is an astrophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for the Barnes–Hut algorithm.
Rachel Somerville
Rachel Somerville is an astrophysicist working on galaxy formation and cosmology who leads the Galaxy Formation group at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.
Ray J. Weymann
Ray J. Weymann is an American astronomer known for his work on quasar absorption lines, the Lyman-alpha forest, and mass ejection from active galactic nuclei.
Rebecca Smethurst
Rebecca (Becky) Smethurst is a British astrophysicist at the University of Oxford who studies how supermassive black holes grow without galaxy mergers and runs the Dr Becky YouTube channel.
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé is a theoretical astrophysicist who studies how galaxies form and evolve using computer simulations, and is Professor and Chair of Physics at the University of Edinburgh.
Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh, born in the Netherlands in 1929, is a Canadian astronomer known for the DDO galaxy luminosity classification, supernova-host correlations, and a shared 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize.