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* Madge Adam (1912–2001), English solar astronomer *

Maggie Aderin-Pocock Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock (; born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since February 2014, she has co ...

(born 1968), English space scientist * Conny Aerts (born 1966), Belgian astrophysicist specializing in asteroseismology * Aglaonike (c. 1st or 2nd Century BCE), ancient Greek astronomer and thaumaturge * María Luisa Aguilar Hurtado (1938–2015), Peruvian astronomer *

Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (11 August 1912 – 9 March 1954) was a German astronomer. She made key observations of variable stars. Eva Ahner-Rohlfs was born in Coburg (Duchy Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). She studied in Würzburg, Munich and Kiel from 1931 to 1933 ...

(1912–1954), German variable star astronomer * Elizabeth Alexander (1908–1958), English geologist and physicist * Leah Allen (1884–1973), American astronomer and educator *

Adelaide Ames Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of ''A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirt ...

(1900 - 1932), American astronomer * Anja Cetti Andersen (born 1965), Danish astronomer focused on

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* Necia H. Apfel (born 1930), American astronomer and educator * Alice Archenhold (1874–1943), German astronomer * Anne Archibald, Canadian astronomer and educator

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* Neta Bahcall (born 1942), Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter * Odette Bancilhon (1908–1998), French astronomer * Amy Barger (born 1971), American galactic astronomer * Nadine G. Barlow, American planetary scientist * Amy Barr, American planetary geophysicist * Maria A. Barucci, Italian astronomer * Natalie Batalha (born 1966), American Astronomer *

Stefi Baum Stefi Baum (born December 11, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1993. Baum helped to develop the Hubble Space Telescope and, start ...

(born 1958), American astronomer and educator *

Reta Beebe Reta F. Beebe (born October 10, 1936 in Baca County Colorado) is an American astronomer, author, and popularizer of astronomy. She is an expert on the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and the author of ''Jupiter: The Giant Planet''. She is a professo ...

(born 1936), American planetary scientist * Emilia Pisani Belserene (1922-2012), American astronomer *

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

(born 1943), Irish radio astronomer * Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944), English selenologist * Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923–2017), German-born American stellar astronomer * Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896–1975), American astronomer of galactic astronomy *

Tabetha S. Boyajian Tabetha "Tabby" Suzanne Boyajian is an American astronomer of Armenian descent and astrophysics, astrophysicist on faculty (academic staff), faculty at Louisiana State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012–16 at Yale University, workin ...

(born c. 1980), American stellar and exoplanetary astronomer * Sophia Brahe (c. 1559 to 1643), Danish noble woman * Ingeborg Brun (1872–1929), Danish amateur astronomer *

Margaret Burbidge Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influentia ...

(1919–2020), British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist * Marta Burgay (born 1976), Italian radio astronomer * Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator and cometary observer

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* Annie Jump Cannon (1863−1941), American astronomer who cataloged stellar spectra *

Robin M. Canup Robin M. Canup (born November 20, 1968) is an American astrophysicist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites. In 2003, Canup was awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize. In April, 2022, Canup presented the findings of t ...

(born 1968), American planetary scientist * Nicole Capitaine (born 1948), French astronomer specializing in astrometry * C. Marcella Carollo, Italian astronomer studying galaxy formation and evolution * Catherine Cesarsky (born 1943), Argentinian–French astrophysicist * Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Moroccan-French astronomer * Kyongae Chang (born 1946), South Korean astrophysicist and instructor *

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(1751–1827), German noble and patron of astronomy * Jun Chen, Chinese–American astronomer *

Lyudmila Chernykh Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (russian: Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х, June 13, 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a ...

(1935–2017), Russian astronomer * Jessie Christiansen, Australian astrophysicist * Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907), Irish astronomer and author * Judith Gamora Cohen (born 1946), American astronomer researching galactic astronomy * Françoise Combes (born 1952), French astrophysicist and educator *

Lynn Cominsky Lynn Cominsky is an American astrophysicist and educator. She was the Chair of Astronomy and Physics at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California from August 2004 through August 2019. She is currently the Project Director for the NASA ...

(born 1953), American astrophysicist and educator *

Janine Connes Janine Connes (born c. 1934) is a female French astronomer whose research led to the establishment of the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy method, which was of major significance and laid the foundations of what was to grow into a significa ...

(born c. 1934), French astronomer * France A. Córdova (born 1947), American astrophysicist and administrator * Heather Couper (1949–2020), English astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser *

Athena Coustenis Athena Coustenis is an astrophysicist specializing in planetology. Dr. Coustenis, a French national, is director of research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS] French National Center for Scientific Research), at LESIA (Laborato ...

, Greek planetary scientist *

Carolin Crawford Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science and astrophysicist. She is an emeritus member of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and an emeritus fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Education Crawford studied the Mathem ...

, English astrophysicist and educator * Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva (1978–2000), Brazilian astronomy student * Maria Cunitz (1610–1664), Silesian astronomer and author

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* Rosina Dafter (1875–1959), Australian astronomer * Ruth Agnes Daly, American astrophysicist * Laura Danly (born 1958), American astronomer and educator * Doris Daou (born 1964), Lebanese-Canada astronomer and educator *

Marie-Jeanne de Lalande Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, born Marie-Jeanne Harlay (1768 – 8 November 1832), was a French astronomer and mathematician. Biography Lalande married her father's young cousin, also an astronomer, Michel Lefrançois de Lalande ( ...

(1768–1832), French astronomer and mathematician * Audrey C. Delsanti (born 1976), French astrobiologist * Elsa van Dien, Dutch astronomer *

Harriet Dinerstein Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985. She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989. Dinerstein received her Bachelor of Scie ...

, American astronomer *

Ewine van Dishoeck Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a ...

(born 1955), Dutch astrochemist *

Anlaug Amanda Djupvik Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a Norwegian astronomer. Her main field of research is star formation and the origin of the initial mass function. She used Kaas as a family name (due to marriage), but changed it back to Djupvik in 2004. She was born i ...

, Norwegian stellar astronomer * Megan Donahue, American astronomer and instructor *

Vibert Douglas Allie (or Alice) Vibert Douglas, (December 15, 1894 – July 2, 1988), who usually went by her middle name, was a Canadian astronomer and the first Canadian woman to become an astrophysicist. Life Douglas was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 15 Dec ...

(1894–1988), Canadian astrophysicist * Jeanne Dumée (1660–1706), French astronomer and author *

Jo Dunkley Joanna Dunkley is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and t ...

(1979/1980), British cosmologist * Andrea Dupree, American astrophysicist

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* Maria Clara Eimmart (1676-1707), German astronomer, engraver, and designer * Sara Ellison, Canadian astronomer and instructor studying extragalactic astronomy * Rebecca Elson (1960–1999), Canadian–American astronomer and writer

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Sandra Faber Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works ...

(born 1944), American astrophysicist and instructor studying galactic evolution * Annette Ferguson, Scottish observational astrophysicist * Laura Ferrarese, Italian astronomer studying supermassive black holes *

Debra Fischer Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system. Education Fischer received her degree from ...

, American astronomer investigating exoplanets * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer * Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), Scottish astronomer * Anna Frebel (born 1980), German astronomer * Wendy Freedman (born 1957), Canadian-American observational cosmologist * Katherine Freese, German theoretical astrophysicist * Caroline Furness (1869–1936), American astronomer and teacher

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Catharine Garmany Catharine "Katy" D. Garmany (born March 6, 1946) is an astronomer with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. She holds a B.S. (astrophysics), 1966 from Indiana University; and a M.A. (astrophysics), 1968, and Ph.D. (astronomy), 1971, from ...

(born 1946), American astronomer and educator *

Pamela L. Gay Pamela L. Gay (born December 12, 1973) is an American astronomer, educator, podcaster, and writer, best known for her work in astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy projects. She is a senior education and communication specialist ...

(born 1973), American astronomer, educator, and writer * Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), Russian astronomer who studied emission nebula and minor planets * Margaret Geller (born 1947), American astrophysicist studying extragalactic astronomy * Andrea M. Ghez (born 1965), American astronomer, teacher, and Nobel prize winner * Agnes Giberne (1845–1939), English novelist and scientific writer * Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic * Merle Gold (1921-2017), American astrophysicist *

Andreja Gomboc Andreja Gomboc (born 10 November 1969) is a Slovenian astrophysicist. Biography Andreja Gomboc was born in Murska Sobota, Slovenia. Andreja Gomboc graduated in 1995 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF) at University of Ljubljana w ...

(born 1969), Slovenian astrophysicist *

Alyssa A. Goodman Alyssa Ann Goodman (born July 1, 1962) is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, a ...

(born 1962), American astrophysicist * Eva Grebel, German astronomer studying stellar populations and galaxy formation *

Lucie Green Lucinda "Lucie" May Green (born c. 1975) is a British science communicator and solar physicist. Green is a Professor of Physics and a Royal Society University Research Fellow (previously the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow) at Mullard S ...

(born c. 1975), English science communicator and solar researcher *

Jenny Greene Jenny Greene (born October 9, 1978) is an Astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. She is notable for her work on supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside. Her work also involves a partne ...

(born 1978), American astrophysicist and teacher studying supermassive black holes and galaxies * Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), Austrian astronomer

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Erika Hamden Erika Tobiason Hamden is an American astrophysicist and Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory. Her research focuses on developing ultraviolet (UV) detector technology, ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV/VIS ...

, American astrophysicist and instructor * Heidi Hammel (born 1960), American planetary scientist * Fiona A. Harrison, American astrophysicist * Marjorie Hall Harrison (1918–1986), English-born American astronomer * Lisa Harvey-Smith (born 1979), British-Australian astrophysicist *

Margaret Harwood Margaret Harwood (March 19, 1885 February 6, 1979) was an American astronomer specializing in photometry and the first director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. An asteroid discovered in 1960 was named 7040 Harw ...

(1885–1979), American astronomer * Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specialized in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy * Martha Locke Hazen (1931-2006), American astronomer * E. Ruth Hedeman (1910–2006), American solar astronomer * Mary Lea Heger (1897–1983), American astronomer who studied the interstellar medium * Charlene Heisler (1961-1999), Canadian astronomer * Eleanor F. Helin (1932–2009), American astronomer who studied near–Earth asteroids *

Amina Helmi Amina Helmi (6 October 1970) is an Argentine astronomer and professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Education Helmi was educated at Leiden University where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 ...

, Argentine astronomer * Amanda Hendrix (born 1968), American planetary scientist *

Caroline Herschel Caroline Lucretia Herschel (; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigolle ...

(1750–1848), German astronomer * Elisabeth Hevelius (1647–1693), Polish astronomer *

Jacqueline Hewitt Jacqueline Nina Hewitt (born September 4, 1958) is an American astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover an Einstein ring. She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Early life and education Hewitt was born in Washington, ...

(born 1958), American astrophysicist * Catherine Heymans, British astrophysicist and instructor *

Dorrit Hoffleit Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (March 12, 1907 – April 9, 2007) was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University. She is best known for her work in Variable star, variable stars, astrometry, Astronomical spectroscopy, spectroscopy, Mete ...

(1907–2007), American astronomer *

Helen Sawyer Hogg Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She was the first female president of several astronomical organizations and a ...

(1905–1993), American-Canadian astronomer * Ann Hornschemeier, American astronomer studying X-ray astronomy * Joan Horvath, American aeronautical engineer and writer *

Nancy Houk Nancy Houk is an American astronomer who led the effort to establish a comprehensive database of stellar temperatures and luminosities. Education After earning her Doctorate in Astronomy from Case Western Reserve University in 1967, Nancy ...

, American astronomer * Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer studying minor planets * Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915), Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer * Carolyn Hurless (1934-1987), American astronomer and an

American Association of Variable Star Observers The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) is an international nonprofit organization, founded in 1911, focused on coordinating, analyzing, publishing, and archiving variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers. ...

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Hypatia Hypatia, Koine pronunciation (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where ...

(c. 350–370 to 415), Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician

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* Violeta G. Ivanova, Bulgarian astronomer * Al-ʻIjliyyah (c. 10th-century), Arab maker of astrolabes

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* Odette Jasse (1899–1949), French astronomer at Marseille Observatory. * Louise Freeland Jenkins (1888–1970), American astronomer of stellar astronomy * Carole Jordan (born 1941), English physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer and academic

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* Vicky Kalogera, Greek astrophysicist *

Lyudmila Karachkina Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (russian: Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for ...

(born 1948), Russian astronomer studying astrometry and minor planets *

Victoria Kaspi Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

(born 1967), American-Canadian astrophysicist and instructor * Lisa Kewley (born 1974), Australian astronomer studying galactic evolution * Pamela M. Kilmartin, New Zealand astronomer searching for comets and minor planets * Maria Margarethe Kirch (1670–1720), German astronomer and calendar maker * Margaret G. Kivelson (born 1928), American planetary scientist *

Dorothea Klumpke Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honn ...

(1861–1942), American astronomer *

Gillian R. Knapp Gillian Knapp is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, astronomical sciences at Princeton University. She is a faculty fellow at Whitman College. She has been involved in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and she is an active member of the Interna ...

, American astronomer * Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, Danish astronomer studying galaxies * Heather A. Knutson, American astronomer studying exoplanets * Gloria Koenigsberger, Mexican astrophysicist and instructor * Bärbel Koribalski, German astrophysicist studying galaxy formation and evolution * Lenka Kotková (born 1973), Czech astronomer * Chryssa Kouveliotou, Greek astrophysicist and instructor * Reiki Kushida, Japanese amateur astronomer

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Elizabeth Lada Elizabeth Lada is an American astronomer whose self-described research interests include "understanding the origin, properties, evolution and fate of young embedded clusters within molecular clouds". Life Lada received her Bachelor of Science in ...

, American astronomer and instructor * Eleanor Annie Lamson (1875-1932), American astronomer *

Marguerite Laugier Marguerite Laugier (née Lhomme) (12 September 1896 – 10 June 1976) was a French astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They ob ...

, French astronomer who discovered minor planets * Gemma Lavender (born 1986), British astronomer, author and journalist *

Henrietta Swan Leavitt Henrietta Swan Leavitt (; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic plates in order to measu ...

(1868–1921), American astronomer who observed variable stars *

Nicole-Reine Lepaute Nicole-Reine Lepaute () née Étable de la Brière, also erroneously known as Hortense Lepaute, (5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated t ...

(1723–1788), French astronomer and mathematician * Isabel Martin Lewis (1881–1966), American astronomer and author *

Nikole Lewis Nikole Lewis is an astrophysicist and an assistant professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Career Her major research interests include observational and theoretical techniques for probing exoplanet atmospheres. She co-led a spectroscop ...

, American astrophysicist * Helen Lines (died 2001), American amateur astronomer *

Sarah Lee Lippincott Sarah Lee Lippincott (October 26, 1920 – February 28, 2019), also known as Sarah Lee Lippincott Zimmerman, was an American astronomer. She was professor emerita of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director emerita of the college's Sproul Obs ...

(1920–2019), American astronomer and instructor who focused on astrometry * Jane Luu (born 1963), Vietnamese–American astronomer and defense systems engineer

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* Amy Mainzer (born 1974), American astronomer specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy * Esmeralda Mallada (born 1937), Uruguayan astronomer and instructor * Rachel Mandelbaum, American astronomer * Karen Masters (born 1979), American astrophysicist studying galaxy formation and evolution * Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943–2004), Turkish-American astronomer studying variable stars *

Annie Russell Maunder Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun's 11-year cycle. ...

(1868–1947), Irish-British astronomer *

Antonia Maury Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra us ...

(1866–1952), American astronomer studying stellar astronomy *

Claire Ellen Max Claire Ellen Max (born September 29, 1946) is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and is affiliated with the Lick Observatory. She is the Director of the Center for Adaptive Optics at UCSC ...

(born 1946), American astronomer and instructor *

Margaret Mayall Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949 to 1973. Mayall (born Margaret Lyle Walton) was born in Iron ...

(1902–1995), American astronomer studying variable stars *

Jaylee Burley Mead Barbara Jaylee Montague Burley Mead (June 14, 1929 – September 14, 2012) was an American astronomer with a long career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She was also a noted arts patron, a major donor to theatres and cultural organizations ...

(1929–2012), American astronomer * Karen Jean Meech (born 1959), American planetary scientist *

Maria Mitchell Maria Mitchell (Help:IPA/English, /məˈraɪə/; August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later kno ...

(1818–1889), American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator * Linda A. Morabito (born 1953), American planetary scientist *

Jean Mueller Jean Mueller (born 1950) is an American astronomer and discoverer of comets, minor planets, and a large number of supernovas at the U.S. Palomar Observatory in California. Scientific career In 1983, she became the first woman to operate the his ...

(born 1950), American astronomer * Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Turkish astrophysicist

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* Sultana N. Nahar, Bangladeshi-American physicist studying atomic processes in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas * Joan Najita, American astronomer researching the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems *

Yaël Nazé Yaël Nazé (born 1976) is a Belgian astrophysicist who works at the University of Liège. She specializes in massive stars and their interactions with their surroundings. Biography She came from what she described as a poor part of Belgium w ...

, Belgian astrophysicist studying massive stars and their environmental interaction * Heidi Jo Newberg, American astrophysicist studying the Milky Way structure

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Carolina Ödman-Govender in 2013 (cropped)

* Carolina Ödman-Govender, Swiss astrophysicist and lecturer *

Sally Oey Dr. Sally Oey is an American astronomer at the University of Michigan and an expert in massive, hot stars which are often precursors to supernovae. In 1999, she was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Soci ...

, American astronomer researching massive stars * Kathleen Ollerenshaw, (1912–2014), English mathematician, politician, and amateur astronomer * C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer and computer scientist who has discovered minor planets * Liisi Oterma (1915–2001), Finnish astronomer *

Mazlan Othman Emerita Professor Tan Sri Dr. Mazlan binti Othman ( ms, مصلان بنت عثمان, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; born 11 December 1951) is a Malaysian astrophysicist whose work has pioneered Malaysia's participation in space exp ...

, Malaysian astrophysicist * Feryal Özel (born 1975), Turkish astrophysicist studying stellar remnants

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; – ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclus ...

(1900–1979), British-born American astrophysicist and instructor * Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981), Australian radio astronomer * Louise du Pierry (1746–1807), French astronomer and instructor * Carle Pieters (born 1943), American planetary scientist *

Thushara Pillai Thushara Pillai is an Indian astrophysicist and astronomer with a senior research scientist position at Boston University's Institute for Astrophysical Research. Her research interests have included molecular clouds, high-mass star formation, mag ...

, (born 1980), Indian astrophysicist and astronomer *

Paris Pişmiş Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas ( hy, Բարիզ Փիշմիշ, 30 January 1911 – 1 August 1999) was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer. Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian ( hy, Մարի Սուքիասեան) in 1911, in Ortaköy, Istanbul. She comp ...

(1911–1999), Armenian-Mexican astronomer * Elena V. Pitjeva, Russian astronomer studying solar system dynamics and celestial mechanics * Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist * Helen Dodson Prince (1905–2002), American astronomer and instructor * Mary Proctor (1862–1957), American popularizer of astronomy

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Elisa Quintana Elisa Victoria Quintana is a scientist working in the field of astronomy and planetary science at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research focuses the detection and characterization of exoplanets in addition to studying how they form. She ...

, American planetary scientist

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* Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius, Finnish astronomer who studied minor planets * Katharine Reeves, American solar astronomer * Emily Rice, American astronomer researching sub-stellar objects including brown dwarfs *

Christina Richey Christina "Chrissy" Richey is an American planetary scientist and astrophysicist working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Richey is a project staff scientist for the Europa Clipper mission and is a research tech ...

, American planetary scientist and astrophysicist * Julia Riley, English radio astronomer *

Constance M. Rockosi Constance "Connie" Mary Rockosi (born c. 1972) is a professor and former department chair in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in 2001 and helped design the camera for the tel ...

, American galactic astronomer *

Elizabeth Roemer Elizabeth "Pat" Roemer (September 4, 1929April 8, 2016) was an American astronomer and educator who specialized in astronomy with a particular focus on comets and minor planets. She was well-known for the recovery of lost comets, as well as for h ...

(1929–2016), American astronomer who studied minor planets *

Nancy Roman Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy through ...

(1925–2018), American stellar astronomer * Marta Graciela Rovira, Argentinian astrophysicist *

Vera Rubin Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by study ...

(1928–2016), American astronomer researching extragalactic astronomy * María Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer

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* Penny Sackett (born 1956), American-born Australian astronomer, educator, and manager * Rita M. Sambruna, Italian-American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and jets *

Anneila Sargent Professor Anneila Isabel Sargent FRSE DSc (born Anneila Cassells, 1942, Kirkcaldy) is a Scottish–American astronomer who specializes in star formation. Biography Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland ...

(born 1942), Scottish–American astronomer specialized in star formation * Caterina Scarpellini (1808–1873), Italian astronomer and meteorologist * Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist * Waltraut Seitter (1930–2007), German astronomer and instructor * Muriel Mussells Seyfert (1909–1997), American astronomer *

Pelageya Shajn Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, ''née'' Sannikova (Пелагея Фёдоровна Шайн) (22 September 1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at ...

(1894–1956), Russian astronomer searching for minor planets * Aomawa Shields, American astrophysicist and professor researching exoplanets * Carolyn S. Shoemaker (born 1929), American astronomer * Amy Simon, American planetary scientist *

Charlotte Moore Sitterly Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly (September 24, 1898 – March 3, 1990) was an American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her tables of data are known for their reliability and are st ...

(1898–1990), American astronomer who studied stellar physics *

Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (russian: Тама́ра Миха́йловна Смирно́ва; 1935–2001) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets. Career From 1966 to 1988, Smirnova was a staff member of t ...

(1935–2001), Russian astronomer who searched for minor planets and comets * Alicia M. Soderberg (born 1977), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on supernovae * Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath * Linda Spilker, American planetary scientist * Denise Stephens, American astronomer and instructor * Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, American planetary scientist *

Annapurni Subramaniam Annapurni Subramaniam is the director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and works on areas like star clusters, stellar evolution and population in galaxies and Magellanic clouds. Education Subramaniam finished her schooling fro ...

, director of the

Indian Institute of Astrophysics The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), with its headquarters in Bengaluru,is an autonomous Research Institute wholly financed by the department of Science and Technology, Government of India. IIA conducts research primarily in the areas of ...

* Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer *

Jean Swank Jean Hebb Swank is an astrophysicist who is best known for her studies of black holes and neutron stars. Early life and education Swank graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Bryn Mawr College in 1961. Two of her physics profe ...

, American astrophysicist studying compact objects * Henrietta Hill Swope (1902–1980), American astronomer who studied variable stars *

Paula Szkody Paula Szkody (born July 17, 1948) is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2020 to 2022. Early life and education Szkody was born ...

(born 1948), American astronomer and instructor specialized in cataclysmic variable stars

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* Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer focused on

SETI The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other pl ...

* Florence Taylor Hildred (1865–1932), English astronomer and pastor *

Alenush Terian Ālenush Teriān ( hy, Ալենուշ Տէրեան; fa, آلنوش طریان; also: آلنوش تریان; November 9, 1921 – March 4, 2011) was an Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'. ...

(1921–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer *

Michelle Thaller Dr. Michelle Lynn Thaller is an American astronomer and research scientist. Thaller is the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processin ...

(born 1969), American astronomer and educator *

Jana Tichá Jana Tichá (born 1965 in České Budějovice) is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kle ...

(born 1965), Czech astronomer searching for minor planets *

Beatrice Tinsley Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist and professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understa ...

(1941–1981), British-born New Zealand astronomer studying galactic evolution * Maura Tombelli (born 1952), Italian amateur astronomer * Christy A. Tremonti, American astronomer * Virginia Louise Trimble (born 1943), American astronomer * Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855–1931), Russian astronomer *

Margaret Turnbull Margaret Carol "Maggie" Turnbull (born 1975) is an American astronomer and astrobiologist. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004. Turnbull is an authority on star systems which may have habitable planets, so ...

(born 1975), American astronomer and astrobiologist

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Anne Barbara Underhill Anne Barbara Underhill FRSC (June 12, 1920 - July 3, 2003) was a Canadian astrophysicist. She is most widely known for her work on early-type stars and was considered one of the world's leading experts in the field. During her lifetime she rec ...

(1920–2003), Canadian astrophysicist who studied massive stars * Meg Urry, American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and galaxies

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* Bobbie Vaile (1959–1996), Australian astrophysicist and lecturer *

Zdeňka Vávrová Zdeňka Vávrová (born 1945) is a Czech astronomer. She co-discovered periodic comet 134P/Kowal-Vávrová. She had observed it as an asteroid, which received the provisional designation 1983 JG, without seeing any cometary coma. However, lat ...

(born 1945), Czech astronomer * Faith Vilas, American planetary scientist * Julie Vinter Hansen (1890–1960), Danish astronomer *

Emma Vyssotsky Emma Vyssotsky (October 23, 1894 – May 12, 1975, née Emma T. R. Williams) was an American astronomer who was honored with the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1946. Biography Emma earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Swarthmor ...

(1894–1975), American astronomer who studied astrometry

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* Lucianne Walkowicz (born 1979), American astronomer *

Wang Zhenyi Wang Zhenyi (; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is most well known ...

(1768–1797), Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet * Kim Weaver (born 1964), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on X-ray astronomy * Alycia J. Weinberger, American astronomer studying planetary formation * Mareta West (1915–1998), American astrogeologist * Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927), American physicist, astronomer, and instructor * Mary Watson Whitney (1847–1921), American astronomer and teacher * Belinda Wilkes, English astrophysicist * Beth Willman, American cosmologist *

Lee Anne Willson Lee Anne Willson (born 1947) is an American astronomer. Early life and education Lee Anne Willson (''nee'' Mordy) was born on March 14, 1947, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Willson was interested in science from an early age. The daughter of a scientist, ...

(born 1947), American astronomer * Anna Winlock (1857–1904), American astronomer * Jennifer Wiseman, American astrophysicist *

Rosemary Wyse Rosemary F. G. Wyse (born 26 January 1957 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish astrophysicist, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), and Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Education Wyse ...

(born 1957), Scottish astrophysicist and instructor * Frances Woodworth Wright (1897–1989), American astronomer and educator *

Gillian Wright Gillian Wright (born 5 May 1960) is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Jean Slater on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' since 2004, for which she has won a number of awards. She was a teacher and theatre director before ...

, Scottish astronomer

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* Ye Shuhua (born 1927), Chinese astronomer and instructor *

Anne Sewell Young Anne Sewell Young (January 2, 1871 – August 15, 1961) was an American astronomer. She was an astronomy professor at Mount Holyoke College for 37 years. Biography Anne Sewell Young was born in Bloomington, Wisconsin on January 2, 1871, to Rever ...

(1871–1961), American astronomer who studied variable stars * Judith Young (1952–2014), American physicist, astronomer, and educator * Louise Gray Young (1935-2018), American astronomer and researcher

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Lyudmila Zhuravlyova Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva (russian: Людмила Васильевна Журавлёва, uk, Людмила Василівна Журавльова, Ljudmyla Vasylivna Žuravljova; born 22 May 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian ast ...

(born 1946), Russian-Ukrainian astronomer who discovered minor planets *

Maria Zuber Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958) is an American geophysicist who is the vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also holds the position of the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in the Department ...

(born 1958), American planetary scientist

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