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Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813–1890) was a German-born American astronomer, professor at Hamilton College in New York, who discovered 48 asteroids beginning with 72 Feronia in 1861.
Christopher F. Chyba
Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist and policy analyst who is a professor at Princeton University, known for work on the origin of life, Europa, and arms control.
Chushiro Hayashi
Chushiro Hayashi (林忠四郎) was a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist and Kyoto University professor known for the Hayashi track of pre-main-sequence stellar evolution and the Kyoto model of solar-system formation.
Claire Ellen Max
Claire Ellen Max is an American astronomer known for adaptive optics, which removes atmospheric blurring of starlight; she co-invented sodium laser guide star adaptive optics and led UC Observatories.
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll, also known as Cliff Stoll, is an American astronomer and author born in 1950 who traced a West German hacker selling data to the KGB.
Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906–1997) was a self-taught American astronomer who discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory in 1930 and later founded the astronomy program at New Mexico State University.
Colin Pillinger
Colin Trevor Pillinger (1943–2014) was a British planetary scientist and mass spectroscopist at the Open University who led the Beagle 2 lander, the UK's first mission to Mars, and helped identify Martian meteorites.
D. S. Heeschen
D. S. Heeschen, born David Sutphin Heeschen, was an American radio astronomer who directed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1962 to 1978 and planned the Very Large Array.
Dale Frail
Dale Andrew Frail is a Canadian radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, co-discoverer of the first exoplanets in 1992.
Daniel J. Price
Daniel J. Price, also known as Daniel Price, is an Australian computational astrophysicist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne, known for the PHANTOM and SPLASH codes.
Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta, born in 1970, is a Regents Professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and led NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.
David C. Catling
David C. Catling is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington who studies Earth's ancient atmosphere and the search for life on Mars and exoplanets.
David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau is a Canadian astronomer at Harvard known for the first detection of an exoplanet transiting a Sun-like star and the first detection of an exoplanet atmosphere.
David Gill (Scottish astronomer)
Sir David Gill (1843–1914) was a Scottish astronomer who served as Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope from 1879, known for precision parallax measurements and pioneering astronomical photography.
David J. Stevenson
David J. Stevenson, born 1948, is a New Zealand-born planetary scientist at Caltech, a Royal Society Fellow known for the Moon's giant-impact origin and work on Jupiter.
David J. Wilner
David J. Wilner is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, at Harvard, who studies protoplanetary disks and planet formation using ALMA and the Submillimeter Array.
David Jewitt
David Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-born planetary astronomer at UCLA known for co-discovering the Kuiper Belt in 1992, for defining the active asteroids, and for winning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw prizes.
David Kipping
David Kipping is a British-born astronomer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who leads the Cool Worlds Lab, developed exomoon detection methods, and reported the first exomoon candidates.
David Morrison (astronomer)
David Morrison (born 1940) is an American planetary astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Carl Sagan's first doctoral student, who led the 1991 study recommending the Spaceguard Survey.
David Nesvorný
David Nesvorný, born 1969, is a Czech-born planetary dynamicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who won the 2005 Urey Prize for work on asteroids.
David S. Heeschen
David S. Heeschen was an American radio astronomer who directed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1962 to 1978 and is called the father of the Very Large Array.
Debra Fischer
Debra Fischer is an American astronomer, formerly Eugene Higgins Professor at Yale University, who discovered 186 extrasolar planets by measuring Doppler shifts in stellar spectra and established the planet-metallicity correlation.
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky is an observational astronomer and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, known for work on dark matter and satellite galaxies.
Didier Queloz
Didier Queloz, born in 1966, is a Swiss astronomer who co-discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found orbiting a Sun-like star, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dimitar Sasselov
Dimitar Sasselov is a Harvard astronomer who studies exoplanets and the origins of life, directing Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative and serving on NASA's Kepler mission.
Dimitri Mihalas
Dimitri Mihalas (1939–2013) was an American astrophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member known for his work on stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation hydrodynamics.
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966) was a Dutch-born American celestial mechanician who spent his career at Yale University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.
Donald M. Hunten
Donald M. Hunten (1925–2010) was a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who predicted Titan's massive nitrogen atmosphere and shaped the study of planetary atmospheres.
Douglas Lin
Douglas N. C. Lin (林潮), born 1949, is a UC Santa Cruz theoretical astrophysicist who co-developed the theory of planetary migration and won the 2015 Bruce Gold Medal.
Douglas P. Hamilton
Douglas P. Hamilton is an American planetary scientist and professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, known for work on planetary rings and Pluto.