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• van der Wel, Arjen [Astronomical Observatory, University of Ghent, Belgium]
• Bezanson, Rachel [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA]
• D’Eugenio, Francesco [Astronomical Observatory, University of Ghent, Belgium]
• Straatman, Caroline [Astronomical Observatory, University of Ghent, Belgium]
• Franx, Marijn [Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands]
• van Houdt, Josha [Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany]
• Maseda, Michael V. [Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands]
• Gallazzi, Anna [INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri, Florence, Italy]
• Wu, Po-Feng [National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan]
• Pacifici, Camilla [Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA]
• Barisic, Ivana [Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany]
• Brammer, Gabriel B. [Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark]
• Munoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos [European Southern Observatory (ESO)]
• Vervalcke, Sarah [Astronomical Observatory, University of Ghent, Belgium]
• Zibetti, Stefano [INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri, Florence, Italy]
• Sobral, David [Department of Physics, Lancaster University, UK]
• de Graaff, Anna [Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands]
• Calhau, Joao [Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Department of Astrophysics, University of La Laguna, Spain]
• Kaushal, Yasha [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, USA]
• Muzzin, Adam [Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada]
• Bell, Eric F. [Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, USA]
• van Dokkum, Pieter G. [Astronomy Department, Yale University, New Haven, USA]

The Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census (LEGA-C) survey is the final Public Spectroscopic Survey to be completed with the now-retired VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Its aim is to characterise with high precision and for a very large sample the stellar population and kinematic properties of galaxies at redshifts 0.6 < z < 1, providing a first assessment of the star formation histories, the absolute mass scale, and the stellar kinematic structure of galaxies at large lookback times (7 gigayears ago). This article coincides with the third and final data release but mostly focuses on the large variety of scientific results achieved so far.