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Keith A. Olive
Keith A. Olive is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota who works on big bang nucleosynthesis, particle dark matter, and inflation, winning the 2018 Hans A. Bethe Prize.
Kelsey Johnson
Kelsey Johnson is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, known for research on star formation and founding Dark Skies, Bright Kids.
Ken Pounds
Ken Pounds (Kenneth A. Pounds) is a British physicist who founded the University of Leicester's Space Research Group in 1960 and became known for work on X-ray reflection from accretion disks.
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Ken'ichi Nomoto (野本憲一) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist known for supernova theory and stellar nucleosynthesis, a Senior Scientist at Kavli IPMU and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
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.
Kenneth Greisen
Kenneth Greisen (1918–2007) was an American experimental cosmic-ray physicist at Cornell University who predicted the GZK cutoff in 1966 and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who co-founded the LIGO project and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
Knut Lundmark
Knut Lundmark was a Swedish astronomer who pioneered extragalactic distance measurement, published the first velocity–distance diagram for spiral nebulae, and directed Lund Observatory from 1929.
Krzysztof Belczyński
Krzysztof Belczyński was a Polish theoretical astrophysicist who predicted stellar black hole masses and merger rates later confirmed by the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.
Lars Bildsten
Lars Bildsten is an American theoretical astrophysicist who directs the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara and studies stellar explosions and gravitational waves.
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.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Yale, Case Western Reserve, and Arizona State, predicted dark energy in 1995, and wrote A Universe from Nothing.
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.
Leon Lucy
Leon B. Lucy (1938–2018) was an astrophysicist who founded the modern theory of radiation-driven stellar winds, co-invented smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2000.
Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel (1927–2017) was a British astronomer and authority on cosmic magnetism whose 1952 white dwarf cooling theory lets white dwarfs serve as cosmic clocks.
Lisa Kewley
Lisa Kewley is an Australian astronomer who studies how galaxies formed and evolved over 12 billion years, and has directed the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian since 2022.
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.
Ludwig Biermann
Ludwig Biermann (1907–1986) was a German theoretical astrophysicist who inferred the solar wind from comet tails in 1951 and originated the Biermann battery mechanism for cosmic magnetic fields.
Lyman Page
Lyman Page, born 1957, is an experimental cosmologist and Princeton professor who measures the cosmic microwave background, co-investigated the WMAP satellite, and founded the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University who proposed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1946, invented the stellarator fusion device, and is the namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
M. van der Klis
Michiel van der Klis, born 1953, is a Dutch astrophysicist who discovered quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries and was professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer at Caltech who in 1963 identified the redshift of 3C 273, showing that quasars are distant, extraordinarily luminous objects.
Makoto Miyoshi
Makoto Miyoshi is a Japanese radio astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, first author of the 1995 Nature paper that weighed the black hole in galaxy NGC 4258.
Malcolm Longair
Malcolm Longair (born 1941) is a Scottish astronomer and high energy astrophysicist who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland and headed the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.
Malvin Ruderman
Malvin Ruderman (1927–2024) was an American astrophysicist at Columbia University, best known for showing that neutron stars have solid crusts and explaining pulsar glitches as starquakes.
Marc Davis (astronomer)
Marc Davis is an American astronomer and cosmologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, who led the first galaxy redshift survey and co-led the DEEP surveys on the Keck telescopes.
Marc Henneaux
Marc Henneaux (born 1955) is a Belgian theoretical physicist who directed the International Solvay Institutes from 2004 and held the Collège de France chair in fields, strings, and gravity from 2020.
Marc Kamionkowski
Marc Kamionkowski is an American theoretical cosmologist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1997 prediction that CMB polarization could reveal primordial gravitational waves.
Marc Victor Gorenstein
Marc Victor Gorenstein is an American astrophysicist who co-authored the 1977 detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole with George Smoot and Richard Muller at Berkeley.
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, is a Brazilian theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College who won the 2019 Templeton Prize and argues a theory of everything is impossible.