Astronomy Look-alikes, No. 94

I’m struck by the similarity in visual appearance between distinguished astrophysicist Herr Professor Dr Auric Goldfinger and infamous Bond villain Reinhard Genzel. I wonder if by any chance they might be related?

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6 Responses to “Astronomy Look-alikes, No. 94”

Jim Geach Says:
September 23, 2014 at 5:33 pm

They both like lasers

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gfrellis Says:
September 23, 2014 at 9:34 pm

The names seem a bit swapped around. Presumably intentional??

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RLO Says:
September 24, 2014 at 4:03 pm

Witten looks a lot like Chance the Gardener in the film Being There, who speaks gibberish that is interpreted as genius by the credulous.

See photo in Horgan interview at Sci. American.

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Jesus Torrado Says:
December 27, 2014 at 5:57 am

A suggestion for your list: Cora Dvorkin vs PJ Harvey

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- telescoper Says:
  December 27, 2014 at 10:50 am
  
  Who are these people?
  
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  - Jesus Torrado Says:
    January 3, 2015 at 10:21 am
    
    As Phillip said, PJ Harvey is a british singer/songwriter.
    And Cora Dvorkin is an argentinian cosmologist based on the US: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~cdvorkin/Home.html
    Both are pretty good at their respective jobs, IMO.
    The photo on Cora’s webpage does not make the lookalike so obvious, though.