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The most famous scientists associated with Astronomy right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Galileo Galilei	Italy	Scientists	92.0	4.7
#2	new	Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance polymath	Italy	Artists	90.7	0.8
#3	new	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	87.7	1.9
#4	new	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	83.8	10.0
#5	new	Tycho Brahe	Sweden	Scientists	74.4	4.5
#6	new	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	72.3	0.0
#7	new	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#8	new	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#9	new	Ibn al-Haytham	—	Scientists	69.9	3.4
#10	new	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#11	new	Edmond Halley	United Kingdom	Scientists	68.9	15.4
#12	new	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	—	Scientists	68.8	2.2
#13	new	William Herschel	Germany	Scientists	68.7	0.0
#14	new	Anders Celsius	Sweden	Scientists	68.5	7.9
#15	new	Jabir ibn Hayyan	—	Scientists	68.4	24.8
#16	new	Edwin Hubble	United States	Scientists	66.7	0.0
#17	new	Roger Penrose	United Kingdom	Scientists	64.9	0.9
#18	new	Luis Walter Alvarez	United States	Scientists	64.8	17.4
#19	new	Ulugh Beg	—	Scientists	64.3	8.0
#20	new	Philip Melanchthon	Germany	Scientists	64.1	15.0
#21	new	Thomas Young	United Kingdom	Scientists	63.6	0.7
#22	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#23	new	AO Aristarchus of Samos	—	Scientists	63.3	15.0
#24	new	Neil deGrasse Tyson	United States	Scientists	63.2	1.4
#25	new	Apollonius of Perga	Turkey	Scientists	62.5	16.2
#26	new	Nasir al-Din al-Tusi	—	Scientists	61.9	6.9
#27	new	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	Germany	Scientists	61.8	2.1
#28	new	Robert Woodrow Wilson	United States	Scientists	61.7	2.3
#29	new	Edward Victor Appleton	United Kingdom	Scientists	61.7	2.1
#30	new	Joseph von Fraunhofer	Germany	Scientists	61.6	25.0
#31	new	Georges Lemaître	—	Scientists	61.5	0.0
#32	new	Hipparchus	Turkey	Scientists	61.3	0.0
#33	new	Urbain Le Verrier	France	Scientists	61.0	15.0
#34	new	Charles Messier	France	Scientists	60.5	2.2
#35	new	Hannes Alfvén	Sweden	Scientists	60.2	0.0
#36	new	Michel Mayor	Switzerland	Scientists	59.9	28.1
#37	new	Arno Allan Penzias	Germany	Scientists	59.8	0.0
#38	new	Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille	France	Scientists	59.5	39.8
#39	new	Arthur Eddington	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.4	0.0
#40	new	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	United Kingdom	Scientists	59.2	6.1
#41	new	Ernst Abbe	Germany	Scientists	59.0	4.8
#42	new	Harold Urey	United States	Scientists	58.9	0.8
#43	new	Riccardo Giacconi	Italy	Scientists	58.7	0.0
#44	new	George Smoot	United States	Scientists	58.4	0.0
#45	new	Martin Ryle	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#46	new	Clyde Tombaugh	United States	Scientists	57.9	0.0
#47	new	Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin	United Kingdom	Scientists	57.9	15.0
#48	new	Friedrich Bessel	Germany	Scientists	57.6	0.5
#49	new	George Gamow	—	Scientists	57.4	1.5
#50	new	Johann Gottfried Galle	Germany	Scientists	57.0	4.4
#51	new	Eudoxus of Cnidus	Turkey	Scientists	56.9	0.0
#52	new	Jean-Baptiste Biot	France	Scientists	56.9	1.5
#53	new	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	56.6	10.0
#54	new	Caroline Herschel	Germany	Scientists	56.6	0.0
#55	new	Al-Battani	Turkey	Scientists	56.6	16.5
#56	new	Thomas Harriot	United Kingdom	Scientists	56.6	11.7
#57	new	Zhang Heng	China	Scientists	56.4	0.4
#58	new	Hans Lippershey	Germany	Scientists	56.2	15.1
#59	new	Abbas ibn Firnas	Spain	Scientists	55.9	1.3
#60	new	Johannes Hevelius	—	Scientists	55.8	0.2
#61	new	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.	United States	Scientists	55.8	0.7
#62	new	Martin Rees	United Kingdom	Scientists	55.2	0.0
#63	new	Anders Jonas Ångström	Sweden	Scientists	55.1	0.0
#64	new	Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi	—	Scientists	55.1	2.6
#65	new	Vasishtha	—	Scientists	55.0	2.0
#66	new	Shen Kuo	China	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#67	new	Camille Flammarion	France	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#68	new	Giovanni Schiaparelli	Italy	Scientists	54.6	0.0
#69	new	GJ Gaius Julius Hyginus	—	Writers	54.5	2.6
#70	new	Johann Palisa	Austria	Scientists	54.3	15.0
#71	new	David Brewster	United Kingdom	Scientists	54.1	0.0
#72	new	Vesto Slipher	United States	Scientists	53.9	3.0
#73	new	Roger Joseph Boscovich	—	Scientists	53.9	0.2
#74	new	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve	—	Scientists	53.8	2.4
#75	new	Asaph Hall	United States	Scientists	53.7	0.5
#76	new	Samuel Pierpont Langley	United States	Scientists	53.6	0.4
#77	new	Heinrich Louis d'Arrest	—	Scientists	53.6	4.9
#78	new	Hippolyte Fizeau	—	Scientists	53.1	0.0
#79	new	William Lassell	—	Scientists	53.0	0.0
#80	new	TI Thābit ibn Qurra	—	Scientists	53.0	1.0
#81	new	Johann Bayer	Germany	Scientists	52.2	0.0
#82	new	SO Sosigenes of Alexandria	—	Scientists	52.0	0.0
#83	new	Charles Greeley Abbot	United States	Scientists	51.9	1.2