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Astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, science communicator, author, and professor. Known for research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, assembly of the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, and advocating for the greenhouse effect hypothesis on Venus.
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. Known for his contributions to evolutionary biology and the proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor. Introduced the scientific theory of natural selection.
Astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. Founded the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.