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Fred Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906–August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, perhaps best known for his “dirty snowball” model of comets. After Whipple finished……
Martin Sieff
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John Q. Stewart
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Eric Larrabee
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was an English-American astronomer at Harvard, and one of the first to criticize Velikovsky‘s theories, although……
John J. O’Neill
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Frederick L. Allen
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