ORGANIZATION

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Walter S. Adams	Astronomer	20-Dec-1876	11-May-1956	Long-time director of Mt Wilson Observatory
Harold D. Babcock	Astronomer	24-Jan-1882	8-Apr-1968	Solar radiation
Horace W. Babcock	Astronomer	13-Sep-1912	29-Aug-2003	Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model
Hans Bethe	Physicist	2-Jul-1906	6-Mar-2005	Atomic scientist
Bart Jan Bok	Astronomer	28-Apr-1906	5-Aug-1983	Bok globules
John G. Bolton	Astronomer	5-Jun-1922	6-Jul-1993	First Director of Parkes Observatory
Ira S. Bowen	Astronomer	21-Dec-1898	6-Feb-1973	Debunked nebulium
Dirk Brouwer	Astronomer	1-Sep-1902	31-Jan-1966	Celestial mechanics
Ernest W. Brown	Astronomer	29-Nov-1866	22-Jul-1938	Tables of the Motion of the Moon
E. Margaret Burbidge	Astronomer	12-Aug-1919		Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge	Astronomer	24-Sep-1925		Quasi-steady state cosmology
William W. Campbell	Astronomer	11-Apr-1862	14-Jun-1938	Stellar Motions
Annie Jump Cannon	Astronomer	11-Dec-1863	13-Apr-1941	Census-taker of the sky
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Astronomer	19-Oct-1910	21-Aug-1995	Evolution stages of stars
France A. Córdova	Educator	5-Aug-1947		President, Purdue University
Robert R. Gilruth	Engineer	18-Oct-1913	17-Aug-2000	NASA scientist
Jesse L. Greenstein	Astronomer	15-Oct-1909	21-Oct-2002	Co-Discoverer of quasars
Alan Guth	Physicist	27-Feb-1947		Inflationary theory
George Herbig	Astronomer	2-Jan-1920		Herbig-Haro objects
Robert P. Kraft	Astronomer	16-Jun-1927		Lick Observatory
Henrietta Swan Leavitt	Astronomer	4-Jul-1868	12-Dec-1921	Cepheid variable
Robert B. Leighton	Astronomer	10-Sep-1919	9-Mar-1997	Leighton dishes
Armin O. Leuschner	Astronomer	16-Jan-1868	22-Apr-1953	Astronomer at Berkeley
Alfred Lee Loomis	Physicist	4-Nov-1887	1-Aug-1975	Millionaire scientist
Frank J. Low	Astronomer	23-Nov-1933		Infrared astronomy
Paul W. Merrill	Astronomer	15-Aug-1887	19-Jul-1961	S-process of nucleosynthesis
Charlotte E. Moore	Astronomer	24-Sep-1898	3-Mar-1990	Technetium in the Sun
William W. Morgan	Astronomer	3-Jan-1906	21-Jun-1994	Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy
Donald E. Osterbrock	Astronomer	13-Jul-1924	11-Jan-2007	Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81
Bohdan Paczynski	Astronomer	8-Feb-1940	19-Apr-2007	Gravitational microlensing
Eugene Parker	Astronomer	10-Jun-1927		Solar winds
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin	Astronomer	10-May-1900	7-Dec-1979	Hydrogen in the Sun
Grote Reber	Astronomer	22-Dec-1911	20-Dec-2002	First radio astronomer
Bruno Rossi	Astronomer	13-Apr-1905	21-Nov-1993	Rossi curve and magnetopause
Henry Norris Russell	Astronomer	25-Oct-1877	18-Feb-1957	Giant stars and dwarfs
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Edwin E. Salpeter	Astronomer	3-Dec-1924		Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
Allan R. Sandage	Astronomer	18-Jun-1926		Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935		Astrophysicist at CalTech
Frank Schlesinger	Astronomer	11-May-1871	10-Jul-1943	Stellar parallaxes
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars
Martin Schwarzschild	Astronomer	31-May-1912	10-Apr-1997	Structure and Evolution of the Stars
Harlow Shapley	Astronomer	2-Nov-1885	20-Oct-1972	Organizer of Heaven
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.	Astronomer	26-Jun-1914	31-Mar-1997	Father of space telescopes
Joel Stebbins	Astronomer	30-Jul-1878	16-Mar-1966	Photoelectric photometry
Otto Struve	Astronomer	12-Aug-1897	6-Apr-1963	Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
Ambrose Swasey	Business	19-Dec-1846	15-Jun-1937	Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Neil deGrasse Tyson	Astronomer	5-Oct-1958		Astrophysicist
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
James Van Allen	Astronomer	7-Sep-1914	9-Aug-2006	Discovered the Van Allen Belt

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