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32 memorial pages

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Jeremiah P. Ostriker

04/13/1937 – 04/06/2025

87 years

Manhattan

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Frank Shu

06/02/1943 – 04/23/2023

79 years

Atherton

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Maarten Schmidt

12/28/1929 – 09/17/2022

92 years

Dutch astronomer

Fresno

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Eugene Parker

06/10/1927 – 03/15/2022

94 years

American astronomer

Chicago

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Margaret Burbidge

08/12/1919 – 04/05/2020

100 years

British-born American astronomer

San Francisco

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Riccardo Giacconi

10/06/1931 – 12/09/2018

87 years

Italian-American astrophysicist

San Diego

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Donald Lynden-Bell

04/05/1935 – 02/06/2018

82 years

Cambridge

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Vera Rubin

07/23/1928 – 12/25/2016

88 years

American astronomer and physicist

Princeton

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Gerald Neugebauer

09/03/1932 – 09/26/2014

82 years

Tucson

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George Herbig

01/02/1920 – 10/12/2013

93 years

American astronomer

Honolulu

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Wallace Sargent

02/15/1935 – 10/29/2012

77 years

Los Angeles

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Allan Sandage

06/18/1926 – 11/13/2010

84 years

American astronomer

San Gabriel

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Edwin Ernest Salpeter

12/03/1924 – 11/26/2008

83 years

Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist

Ithaca

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George Wetherill

08/12/1925 – 07/19/2006

80 years

Washington, D.C.

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Fred Lawrence Whipple

11/05/1906 – 08/30/2004

97 years

American astronomer

Cambridge

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Lawrence Aller

09/24/1913 – 03/16/2003

89 years

Malibu

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Grote Reber

12/22/1911 – 12/20/2002

90 years

American pioneer of radio astronomy

Wheaton

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Albert Whitford

10/22/1905 – 03/28/2002

96 years

Madison

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Fred Hoyle

06/24/1915 – 08/20/2001

86 years

British astronomer

Bournemouth

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Herbert Friedman

06/21/1916 – 09/09/2000

84 years

American physicist

Arlington County

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Olin Jeuck Eggen

07/09/1919 – 10/02/1998

79 years

Canberra

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Martin Schwarzschild

05/31/1912 – 04/10/1997

84 years

Langhorne

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

10/19/1910 – 08/21/1995

84 years

Indian-American astrophysicist

Chicago

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William Alfred Fowler

08/09/1911 – 03/14/1995

83 years

Pasadena

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