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Cornelis A. "Neil" Gehrels was an American astrophysicist specializing in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. He was Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from 1995 until his death, and was best known for his work developing the field from early balloon instruments to today's space observatories such as the NASA Swift mission, for which he was the Principal Investigator. He was leading the WFIRST wide-field infrared telescope forward toward a launch in the mid-2020s. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tom Gehrels fue un astrónomo estadounidense, profesor de Ciencias Planetarias y astrónomo en la Universidad de Arizona. Descubrió más de cuatro mil asteroides, entre los que se encuentran, por ejemplo, (1979) Sájarov, (2247) Hiroshima, (4065) Meinel y (11184) Postma.