List of Cosmologists - L

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• Ofer Lahav (1959–) studied dark matter and dark energy
• Tod R. Lauer catalogued massive black holes at galaxy centers and correlated their mass with other properties of the galaxies' structures
• Georges Henri Lemaître (1894–1966) proposed the big bang theory and the distance-redshift relation
• Andrew R. Liddle (1965–) studied inflationary models, wrote two books on inflation and primordial inhomogeneities
• Evgeny M. Lifshitz (1915–1985) conjectured an oscillatory model with an essential singularity for the evolution of the universe
• Andrei Linde (1948–) pioneered inflationary models and proposed eternal chaotic inflation of universes from the false vacuum
• Abraham Loeb (1962–) researched primordial stars, primordial black holes, quasars, reionization, gravitational lensing, and gamma-ray bursts
• David H. Lyth studied particle cosmology, wrote two books on inflation and primordial inhomogeneities