Astrophysics

In collaboration with Robert Bunsen (1811-1899), Kirchhoff founded the (then purely empirical) science of spectroscopy. Kirchhoff and Bunsen began by effectively inventing the "spectroscope," a prism-based device that separated light in its primary chromatic components, its spectrum, with which they began studying the spectral qualities of various chemical elements in gaseous form.

Infobox fields: Astrophysics

Infobox fields: Astrophysics, Optics

Infobox fields: Astronomy, astrophysics

Infobox fields: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Engineering

Infobox fields: Pulsars; Neutron stars; Astrophysics

Infobox fields: Astrophysics

Infobox fields: Astrophysics

Infobox fields: astrophysicist

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author.

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920, June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, who also held British and American citizenship.

George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 - February 21, 1938) was an American astrophysicist best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots.

Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne;, ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist.

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar.

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (; 12 August 1919-5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist.

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist.

Riccardo Giacconi ( , ; October 6, 1931, December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy.

John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist.

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (February 20, 1945, September 18, 2025) was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930, September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist.

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist.

David Nathaniel Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and the Emeritus Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University.

Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.

Roger David Blandford (born 1949) is a British theoretical astrophysicist, best known for his work on black holes.

Steven Andrew Balbus (born 23 November 1953) is an American astrophysicist who is the Savilian Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at New College, Oxford.

Chryssa Kouveliotou (born May 26, 1953) is a Greek astrophysicist.

Ken'ichi Nomoto (野本 憲一 Nomoto Ken'ichi, born 1 December 1946 in Tokyo) is a Japanese astrophysicist and astronomer, known for his research on stellar evolution, supernovae, and the origin of heavy elements.

Duncan Ross Lorimer (born 1969) is a British-born American astrophysicist.

Matthew Bailes (born 1970) is an astrophysicist and Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.

John Frederick Hawley (August 23, 1958, December 12, 2021) was an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia.

Jean-Loup Puget (born 7 March 1947) is a French astrophysicist.

Gerald Jay (Jerry) Fishman (born February 10, 1943) is an American research astrophysicist, specializing in gamma-ray astronomy.

Simon David Manton White (born 30 September 1951), FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist.

Madhulika (Lika) Guhathakurta is an Indian astrophysicist and scientist with NASA's Heliophysics Science Division.

Arnab Rai Choudhuri is an Indian astrophysicist and writer known for his contributions to Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics, specially in context of solar magnetic cycle.

Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American astrophysicist.

was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist

was an American astrophysicist

Conny Clara Aerts, born 26 January 1966, is a Belgian (Flemish) professor in astrophysics.