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The following is a list of
astronomers,
astrophysicists and other notable women who have made contributions to the field of
astronomy.
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Madge Adam (1912–2001), English solar astronomer
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), English space scientist
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Conny Aerts (born 1966), Belgian astrophysicist specializing in
asteroseismology
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Aglaonike (c. 1st or 2nd Century BCE), ancient Greek astronomer and thaumaturge
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María Luisa Aguilar Hurtado (1938–2015), Peruvian astronomer
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Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German variable star astronomer
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Elizabeth Alexander (1908–1958), English geologist and physicist
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Leah Allen (1884–1973), American astronomer and educator
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Adelaide Ames (1900 - 1932), American astronomer
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Anja Cetti Andersen (born 1965), Danish astronomer focused on
cosmic dust
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Necia H. Apfel (born 1930), American astronomer and educator
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Alice Archenhold (1874–1943), German astronomer
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Anne Archibald, Canadian astronomer and educator
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Neta Bahcall (born 1942), Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter
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Odette Bancilhon (1908–1998), French astronomer
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Beatriz Barbuy (Born 1950), Brazilian strophysicist
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Amy Barger (born 1971), American galactic astronomer
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Nadine G. Barlow, American planetary scientist
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Amy Barr, American planetary geophysicist
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Maria A. Barucci, Italian astronomer
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Sarbani Basu, Indian-American astronomer working in solar and stellar astrophysics
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Natalie Batalha (born 1966), American astronomer
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Stefi Baum (born 1958), American astronomer and educator
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Reta Beebe (born 1936), American planetary scientist
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Emilia Pisani Belserene (1922-2012), American astronomer
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), Irish radio astronomer
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Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944), English selenologist
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Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923–2017), German-born American stellar astronomer
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Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896–1975), American astronomer of galactic astronomy
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Tabetha S. Boyajian (born c. 1980), American stellar and exoplanetary astronomer
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Sophia Brahe (c. 1559 to 1643), Danish noble woman
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Ingeborg Brun (1872–1929), Danish amateur astronomer
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Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist
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Marta Burgay (born 1976), Italian radio astronomer
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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
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Robin M. Canup (born 1968), American planetary scientist
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Nicole Capitaine (born 1948), French astronomer specializing in astrometry
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C. Marcella Carollo, Italian astronomer studying galaxy formation and evolution
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Catherine Cesarsky (born 1943), Argentinian–French astrophysicist
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Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Moroccan-French astronomer
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Kyongae Chang (born 1946), South Korean astrophysicist and instructor
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Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), German noble and patron of astronomy
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Jun Chen, Chinese–American astronomer
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Lyudmila Chernykh (1935–2017), Russian astronomer
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Jessie Christiansen, Australian astrophysicist
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Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907), Irish astronomer and author
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Judith Gamora Cohen (born 1946), American astronomer researching galactic astronomy
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Françoise Combes (born 1952), French astrophysicist and educator
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Lynn Cominsky (born 1953), American astrophysicist and educator
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Janine Connes (born c. 1934), French astronomer
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France A. Córdova (born 1947), American astrophysicist and administrator
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Heather Couper (1949–2020), English astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser
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Athena Coustenis, Greek planetary scientist
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Carolin Crawford, English astrophysicist and educator
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Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva (1978–2000), Brazilian astronomy student
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Maria Cunitz (1610–1664), Silesian astronomer and author
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Rosina Dafter (1875–1959), Australian astronomer
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Ruth Agnes Daly, American astrophysicist
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Laura Danly (born 1958), American astronomer and educator
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Doris Daou (born 1964), Lebanese-Canada astronomer and educator
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Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768–1832), French astronomer and mathematician
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Audrey C. Delsanti (born 1976), French astrobiologist
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Elsa van Dien, Dutch astronomer
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Harriet Dinerstein, American astronomer
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Ewine van Dishoeck (born 1955), Dutch astrochemist
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Anlaug Amanda Djupvik, Norwegian stellar astronomer
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Megan Donahue, American astronomer and instructor
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Vibert Douglas (1894–1988), Canadian astrophysicist
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Jeanne Dumée (1660–1706), French astronomer and author
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Jo Dunkley (1979/1980), British cosmologist
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Andrea Dupree, American astrophysicist
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Maria Clara Eimmart (1676-1707), German astronomer, engraver, and designer
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Sara Ellison, Canadian astronomer and instructor studying extragalactic astronomy
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Rebecca Elson (1960–1999), Canadian–American astronomer and writer
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Sandra Faber (born 1944), American astrophysicist and instructor studying galactic evolution
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Fira Fatmasiefa, (born 2000) Indonesian-American astrophysicist (UC Berkeley/Boston University)
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Annette Ferguson, Scottish observational astrophysicist
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Laura Ferrarese, Italian astronomer studying supermassive black holes
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Debra Fischer, American astronomer investigating exoplanets
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Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer
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Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), Scottish astronomer
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Anna Frebel (born 1980), German astronomer
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Wendy Freedman (born 1957), Canadian-American observational cosmologist
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Katherine Freese, German theoretical astrophysicist
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Caroline Furness (1869–1936), American astronomer and teacher
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Catharine Garmany (born 1946), American astronomer and educator
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Pamela L. Gay (born 1973), American astronomer, educator, and writer
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Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), Russian astronomer who studied emission nebula and minor planets
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Margaret Geller (born 1947), American astrophysicist studying extragalactic astronomy
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Andrea M. Ghez (born 1965), American astronomer, teacher, and Nobel prize winner
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Agnes Giberne (1845–1939), English novelist and scientific writer
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Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic
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Merle Gold (1921-2017), American astrophysicist
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Andreja Gomboc (born 1969), Slovenian astrophysicist
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Alyssa A. Goodman (born 1962), American astrophysicist
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Eva Grebel, German astronomer studying stellar populations and galaxy formation
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Lucie Green (born c. 1975), English science communicator and solar researcher
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Jenny Greene (born 1978), American astrophysicist and teacher studying supermassive black holes and galaxies
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Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), Austrian astronomer
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Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and first female director of Trieste's Observatory
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Erika Hamden, American astrophysicist and instructor
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Heidi Hammel (born 1960), American planetary scientist
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Fiona A. Harrison, American astrophysicist
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Marjorie Hall Harrison (1918–1986), English-born American astronomer
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Lisa Harvey-Smith (born 1979), British-Australian astrophysicist
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Margaret Harwood (1885–1979), American astronomer
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Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specialized in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy
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Martha Locke Hazen (1931-2006), American astronomer
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E. Ruth Hedeman (1910–2006), American solar astronomer
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Mary Lea Heger (1897–1983), American astronomer who studied the
interstellar medium
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Charlene Heisler (1961-1999), Canadian astronomer
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Eleanor F. Helin (1932–2009), American astronomer who studied near–Earth asteroids
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Amina Helmi, Argentine astronomer
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Amanda Hendrix (born 1968), American planetary scientist
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Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), German astronomer
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Elisabeth Hevelius (1647–1693), Polish astronomer
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Jacqueline Hewitt (born 1958), American astrophysicist
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Catherine Heymans, British astrophysicist and instructor
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Renée Hložek, South African cosmologist
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Dorrit Hoffleit (1907–2007), American astronomer
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Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993), American-Canadian astronomer
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Ann Hornschemeier, American astronomer studying X-ray astronomy
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Joan Horvath, American aeronautical engineer and writer
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Nancy Houk, American astronomer
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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer studying minor planets
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Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915), Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer
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Carolyn Hurless (1934-1987), American astronomer and an
American Association of Variable Star Observers merit award winner.
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Hypatia (c. 350–370 to 415), Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
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Vicky Kalogera, Greek astrophysicist
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Lyudmila Karachkina (born 1948), Russian astronomer studying astrometry and minor planets
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Victoria Kaspi (born 1967), American-Canadian astrophysicist and instructor
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Lisa Kewley (born 1974), Australian astronomer studying galactic evolution
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Pamela M. Kilmartin, New Zealand astronomer searching for comets and minor planets
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Maria Margarethe Kirch (1670–1720), German astronomer and calendar maker
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Margaret G. Kivelson (born 1928), American planetary scientist
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Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942), American astronomer
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Gillian R. Knapp, American astronomer
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Kirsten Kraiberg Knudsen, Danish astronomer studying galaxies
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Heather A. Knutson, American astronomer studying exoplanets
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Gloria Koenigsberger, Mexican astrophysicist and instructor
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Bärbel Koribalski, German astrophysicist studying galaxy formation and evolution
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Lenka Kotková (born 1973), Czech astronomer
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Chryssa Kouveliotou, Greek astrophysicist and instructor
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Reiki Kushida, Japanese amateur astronomer
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Elizabeth Lada, American astronomer and instructor
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Eleanor Annie Lamson (1875-1932), American astronomer
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Marguerite Laugier, French astronomer who discovered minor planets
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Gemma Lavender (born 1986), British astronomer, author and journalist
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer who observed variable stars
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Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), French astronomer and mathematician
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Isabel Martin Lewis (1881–1966), American astronomer and author
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Nikole Lewis, American astrophysicist
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Helen Lines (died 2001), American amateur astronomer
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Sarah Lee Lippincott (1920–2019), American astronomer and instructor who focused on astrometry
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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
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Esmeralda Mallada (born 1937), Uruguayan astronomer and instructor
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Rachel Mandelbaum, American astronomer
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Karen Masters (born 1979), American astrophysicist studying galaxy formation and evolution
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Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943–2004), Turkish-American astronomer studying variable stars
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Annie Russell Maunder (1868–1947), Irish-British astronomer
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Antonia Maury (1866–1952), American astronomer studying stellar astronomy
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Claire Ellen Max (born 1946), American astronomer and instructor
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Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer studying variable stars
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Jaylee Burley Mead (1929–2012), American astronomer
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Karen Jean Meech (born 1959), American planetary scientist
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Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator
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Linda A. Morabito (born 1953), American planetary scientist
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Jean Mueller (born 1950), American astronomer
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Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Turkish astrophysicist
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Sultana N. Nahar, Bangladeshi-American physicist studying atomic processes in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas
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Joan Najita, American astronomer researching the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems
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Yaël Nazé, Belgian astrophysicist studying massive stars and their environmental interaction
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Heidi Jo Newberg, American astrophysicist studying the Milky Way structure
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Carolina Ödman-Govender, (1974–2022), Swiss astrophysicist and lecturer
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Sally Oey, American astronomer researching massive stars
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw, (1912–2014), English mathematician, politician, and amateur astronomer
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C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer and computer scientist who has discovered minor planets
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Liisi Oterma (1915–2001), Finnish astronomer
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Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist
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Feryal Özel (born 1975), Turkish astrophysicist studying stellar remnants
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), British-born American astrophysicist and instructor
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Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981), Australian radio astronomer
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Louise du Pierry (1746–1807), French astronomer and instructor
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Carle Pieters (born 1943), American planetary scientist
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Thushara Pillai, (born 1980), Indian astrophysicist and astronomer
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Paris Pişmiş (1911–1999), Armenian-Mexican astronomer
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Elena V. Pitjeva, Russian astronomer studying solar system dynamics and celestial mechanics
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Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist
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Helen Dodson Prince (1905–2002), American astronomer and instructor
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Mary Proctor (1862–1957), American popularizer of astronomy
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Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius, Finnish astronomer who studied minor planets
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Katharine Reeves, American solar astronomer
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Emily Rice, American astronomer researching sub-stellar objects including brown dwarfs
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Christina Richey, American planetary scientist and astrophysicist
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Julia Riley, English radio astronomer
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Constance M. Rockosi, American galactic astronomer
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Elizabeth Roemer (1929–2016), American astronomer who studied minor planets
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Nancy Roman (1925–2018), American stellar astronomer
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Marta Graciela Rovira, Argentinian astrophysicist
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Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer researching extragalactic astronomy
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María Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer
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Penny Sackett (born 1956), American-born Australian astronomer, educator, and manager
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Rita M. Sambruna, Italian-American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and jets
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Anneila Sargent (born 1942), Scottish–American astronomer specialized in star formation
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Ann Savage (1946–2017), British astronomer
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Caterina Scarpellini (1808–1873), Italian astronomer and meteorologist
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Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
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Waltraut Seitter (1930–2007), German astronomer and instructor
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Muriel Mussells Seyfert (1909–1997), American astronomer
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Pelageya Shajn (1894–1956), Russian astronomer searching for minor planets
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Aomawa Shields, American astrophysicist and professor researching exoplanets
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Carolyn S. Shoemaker (born 1929), American astronomer
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Amy Simon, American planetary scientist
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Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898–1990), American astronomer who studied stellar physics
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Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (1935–2001), Russian astronomer who searched for minor planets and comets
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Alicia M. Soderberg (born 1977), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on supernovae
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Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath
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Linda Spilker, American planetary scientist
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Denise Stephens, American astronomer and instructor
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Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, American planetary scientist
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Annapurni Subramaniam, director of the
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
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Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer
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Jean Swank, American astrophysicist studying compact objects
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Henrietta Hill Swope (1902–1980), American astronomer who studied variable stars
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Nadezhda Sytinskaya (1906-1974), Soviet astronomer and planetary scientist
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Paula Szkody (born 1948), American astronomer and instructor specialized in cataclysmic variable stars
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Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer focused on
SETI
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Florence Taylor Hildred (1865–1932), English astronomer and pastor
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Alenush Terian (1921–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer
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Michelle Thaller (born 1969), American astronomer and educator
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Jana Tichá (born 1965), Czech astronomer searching for minor planets
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Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), British-born New Zealand astronomer studying galactic evolution
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Maura Tombelli (born 1952), Italian amateur astronomer
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Christy A. Tremonti, American astronomer
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Virginia Louise Trimble (born 1943), American astronomer
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Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855–1931), Russian astronomer
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Margaret Turnbull (born 1975), American astronomer and astrobiologist
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Anne Barbara Underhill (1920–2003), Canadian astrophysicist who studied massive stars
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Meg Urry, American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and galaxies
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Lucianne Walkowicz (born 1979), American astronomer
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Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet
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Kim Weaver (born 1964), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on X-ray astronomy
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Alycia J. Weinberger, American astronomer studying planetary formation
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Mareta West (1915–1998), American astrogeologist
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Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927), American physicist, astronomer, and instructor
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Mary Watson Whitney (1847–1921), American astronomer and teacher
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Belinda Wilkes, English astrophysicist
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Beth Willman, American cosmologist
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Lee Anne Willson (born 1947), American astronomer
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Anna Winlock (1857–1904), American astronomer
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Jennifer Wiseman, American astrophysicist
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Rosemary Wyse (born 1957), Scottish astrophysicist and instructor
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Frances Woodworth Wright (1897–1989), American astronomer and educator
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Gillian Wright, Scottish astronomer
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