astrophysicist
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"I have Sir Isaac Newton's personal assurance that it did indeed hit the moon, there's no way for it to have escaped," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and space analyst, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating was originally made by Riess, Schmidt, and American astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
Snyder drove to the nearby home of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who went outside to his front porch to see what was going on, according to a Los Angeles County district attorney’s office news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
A research astrophysicist and a gifted science communicator, Katie Mack moves lightly across these deep waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The “NOVA” presentation, bookended by takeoff and splashdown footage, isn’t for astrophysicists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
"We were not expecting to detect an asymmetry like this, and it will be a task for the astrophysicists modeling these systems to explain its presence," said Kim.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2025
With his passing on Tuesday, India lost one of its most celebrated astrophysicists.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
In 1965 several astrophysicists at Princeton University were calculating what would have happened right after the big bang.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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