List of eminent cosmologists
The list of eminent cosmologists includes people who have made important contributions to cosmology , the science of the evolution of the cosmos .
- Hannes Alfvén (Sweden, 1908–1995)
- Ralph Alpher (USA, 1921-2007)
- Sidney van den Bergh (Canada / Netherlands, * 1929)
- Hermann Bondi (Great Britain, 1919-2005)
- Geoffrey Burbidge (US, 1925-2010)
- Brandon Carter (Australia, * 1942)
- Isaak Chalatnikow (Russia, * 1919)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (USA / India, 1910–1995)
- Robert Henry Dicke (US, 1916–1997)
- Albert Einstein (Germany / USA, 1879–1955)
- Wendy Freedman (Canada, * 1957)
- Alexander Friedmann (Russia, 1888–1925)
- George Gamow (Russia, 1904–1968)
- Thomas Gold (USA, 1920-2004)
- James E. Gunn (USA, * 1938)
- Alan Guth (USA, born 1947)
- Stephen Hawking (Great Britain, 1942-2018)
- Otto Heckmann (Germany, 1901–1983)
- Robert Herman (US, 1914-1997)
- Fred Hoyle (Great Britain, 1915-2001)
- Edwin Hubble (US, 1889–1953)
- Werner Israel (Canada, * 1931)
- Roy Kerr (New Zealand, * 1934)
- Oskar Klein (Sweden, 1894–1977)
- Lev Dawidowitsch Landau (Soviet Union, 1908–1968)
- Abbé Georges Lemaître (Belgium, 1894–1966)
- Evgenii Lifschitz (Soviet Union, 1915–1985)
- Andrej Linde (Russia, * 1948)
- Donald Lynden-Bell (Great Britain, 1935-2018)
- John Cromwell Mather (USA, * 1946)
- Vyacheslav Mukhanov (USSR, 1956)
- Jeremiah P. Ostriker (USA, * 1937)
- James Peebles (Canada, * 1935)
- Roger Penrose (Great Britain, * 1931)
- Arno Penzias (USA, * 1933)
- Saul Perlmutter (USA, * 1959)
- Martin Rees (Great Britain, * 1942)
- Howard P. Robertson (United States, 1903-1961)
- Michael Rowan-Robinson (Great Britain, * 1942)
- Vera Rubin (USA, 1928-2016)
- Martin Ryle (Great Britain, 1918–1984)
- Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov (Soviet Union, 1921–1989)
- Allan Sandage (US, 1926-2010)
- Brian P. Schmidt (USA, 1967)
- David Schramm (USA, 1945-1997)
- Karl Schwarzschild (Germany, 1873-1916)
- Dennis Sciama (Great Britain, 1926–1999)
- Jakow Seldowitsch (Soviet Union, 1914–1987)
- George Smoot (USA, * 1945)
- David Spergel (USA, * 1961)
- Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky (USSR, 1948)
- Paul Steinhardt (USA, * 1952)
- Rashid Sunyaev (USSR, * 1943)
- Gustav Andreas Tammann (Germany, 1932-2019)
- Neil Turok (South Africa, * 1958)
- Gérard-Henri de Vaucouleurs (France / USA, 1918–1995)
- Arthur Geoffrey Walker (Great Britain, 1909-2001)
- John Archibald Wheeler (US, 1911-2008)
- Simon White (Great Britain, born 1951)
- Robert Wilson (USA, * 1936)