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63 results for "Staff"

63 results for "Staff"

Imogen Willis Eddy

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Imogen Willis Eddy (June 20, 1842-September 4, 1904) 1 worked at the Harvard College Observatory for approximately 15 years from 1889-1904. Eddy’s work at the HCO focused on using glass plate photographs taken with Harvard’s meridian circle instrument to...

Margaret Walton Mayall

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Margaret Walton Mayall (Born Margaret Lyle Walton), (Jan 27, 1902 - Dec 6, 1995) was an American Astronomer and head of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949-1973. Mayall started at Harvard in 1924, working with Annie Jump...

Variable Stars and Nebula

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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. The Horsehead Nebula Williamina Fleming was prolific in her science. You might recognize the Horsehead Nebula, one of her early discoveries from 1888 (Fig. 4). While the newer image is colorized and...

Anne Atwood Pickering

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Anne Atwood Pickering (January 29, 1861--November 16, 1939), née Anne Atwood Butts, worked with the Harvard College Observatory in various ways from 1891-1924. 1 She assisted with the management of Harvard’s Boyden Observatory in Peru and with the Harvard...

Anna Winlock

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Anna Winlock (1857-1904) was the one of the first paid female staff member of the Harvard College Observatory, and she worked at the Observatory for 28 years from 1875-1903. She is best known for her extensive computation work with meridian circle...

Henrietta Hill Swope

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Henrietta Hill Swope (1902-1980) was an astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1928 to 1942. Her work focused on photometry and variable stars. Within her first few years at the HCO, Swope’s studies of variable stars in a small area...

Education and Doctoral Thesis

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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. Cecilia Payne was born into a moderately wealthy family that lived in the English countryside. The only girl with two brothers, Cecilia often found herself either exploring with them or alone in nature. In...

Adelaide Ames

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Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900-June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1923 to 1932. She is best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. Ames became the...

Helen Sawyer Hogg

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Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (1905-1993) was a student at the Harvard College Observatory from 1926-1931. She built a long, illustrious career as one of the most prominent astronomers in Canada, specializing in globular clusters of variable stars and in...