The civilian scientists who attended, notes astronomer Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute, «went expecting it to be unusual, and we weren't disappointed.» (discovermagazine.com)
Jodie Foster stars as headstrong visionary astronomer Ellie Arroway in Contact, a drama of discovery, based on the best - selling 1985 novel by Pulitzer Prize - winning author and noted astronomer Carl... (metacritic.com)
Cecilia Payne - Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979) In her 1925 Ph.D. thesis — described by the noted astronomer Otto Struve in 1960 as «the most brilliant... ever written in astronomy» — she proposed that all stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium. (discovermagazine.com)