Astrophysicist - Definition and Overview

An astrophysicist is a person whose profession is astrophysics.

• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Sweden, 1908 - 1995)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India, USA, 1910 - 1995)
• Robert Henry Dicke (USA, 1916 - 1997)
• Herbert Dingle (USA, 1890 - 1978)
• Frank Drake (USA, 1930)
• Freeman John Dyson (England, USA, 1923 - )
• Arthur Eddington (England, 1882 - 1944)
• Jaan Einasto (Estonia, 1929)
• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russia, 1916 - )
• Thomas Gold (USA, 1920 - 2004)
• Stephen Hawking (England, 1942 - )
• William McCrea (Republic of Ireland, 1904 - 1999)
• Igor Dmitrievich Novikov (Russia, 1935)
• Jeremiah P. Ostriker (USA)
• Hubert Reeves (Canada, 1932)
• David Schramm (USA, 1945 - 1997)
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (Russia, 1914 - 1987)

See also: list of astronomers