Papers, 1906-2005

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Papers, 1906-2005

Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit,astronomer at Harvard and Yale Universities and at the Maria MitchellObservatory in Nantucket.

32 1/2 file boxes,2 folio boxes, 3 folio+ folders, 1 oversize folder, 1 supersize folder, 6photograph folders

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Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born on March 12, 1907, on her parents' farm in Florence, Alabama. Her parents, Fred and Kate Sanio Hoffleit, had emigrated from Germany, and her father worked intermittently as a bookkeeper for the Pennsylvania Railroad. While he preferred farm work, it was not possible to support the family this way, and they relocated from Alabama to New Castle, Pennsylvania. Fred Hoffleit later returned to the farm, while his wife opted to remain in New Castle, judging...

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Winifred Edgerton (September 24, 1862 – September 6, 1951) was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics. She was awarded a PhD with high honors from Columbia University in 1886, by a unanimous vote of the board of trustees, after being rejected once. Winifred Haring Edgerton was born in Ripon, Wisconsin on September 24, 1862. She was the only daughter of Clara and Emmett Edgerton...

Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-1979

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Celilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979) taught astronomy at Harvard. She earned her AB at Newnham College, Cambridge University in 1923 and a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1925. She began working at the Harvard Observatory in 1923. She was the Phillips Astronomer at the Harvard Observatory in 1938, Professor of Astronomy, 1956-1966, Chair of the Astronomy Department, 1956-1960 (the first female department Chair at Harvard) and Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Emerita, from 1967; at the tim...

Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Vincent, Florence (and Art)

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AnnaLisa Jean Zinn

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Hoffleit, Kate

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Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Paranya, Katharine

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Doleman, Geoffrey

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Fred Hoffleit.

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Hoffleit, Herbert

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Öpik, Ernst Julius, 1893-

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Astronomer (astrophysics, solar system). Professor of Astrophysics, University of Maryland; Astronomer, Armagh Observatory (1948-1981); Fellow & Instructor, Moscow University & Observatory (1916-1919); Head of Astronomy Department, Turkestan University, Tashkent (1919-1921); Astronomer/Associate Professor, Tartu University (1921-1944); Research Associate/Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University & Observatory (1930-1934); Professor of Astronomy/Rector, Baltic University (1945-1948). See ...

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Smith College.

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Houk, Nancy, 1940-

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Trimble, Virginia.

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Draper, Henry, 1837-1882

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Astronomer (stellar spectra and distances). On the astronomy faculty at Universität Göttingen (1909-1919); and Rijksuniversiteit te leiden 91920-1944); on the staff of the observatory at Leiden (1914-1944), director, (1935-1944). From the description of Correspondence, 1903-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78544160 Astronomer (steller spectra and distances). On the astronomy faculty at Universität Göttingen, 1909-1919; and Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1920-1944; on t...

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Astronomer; professor at Swarthmore College for 35 years. Magill Professor of Astronomy and director of the Sproul Observatory in the Netherlands (after retiring from Swarthmore). Died 1995. From the description of Symposium on the galaxy [motion picture] / taken by Peter Van de Kamp, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80779549 From the description of Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp. 1955-1964. (Unknown). Wo...

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Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton)

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Margaret Walton Mayall (1902-). Astronomer. Education: Swarthmore College, A.B., 1925; Radcliffe College, A.M., 1928. Professional experience: Harvard College Observatory (1924-1943,1946-1954); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1943-1946); American Association of Variable Star Observers, Director (1949-). Research interests: Spectroscopy, variable stars, photometry. From the description of Oral History interview with Margaret W. Mayall, 1986 August 11 and September 12. (Unknown)...

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Schaefer, Bradley E.

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Mary Watson Whitney (b. Sept. 11, 1847, Waltham, MA-d. Jan. 21, 1921, Waltham, MA) graduated from Vassar College in 1868 and received her masters there in 1872. There she met astronomer Maria Mitchell. Whitney became an assistant of Maria Mitchell and, in 1888, became a professor and the director of the observatory there until she retired in 1915. Whitney was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a charter member of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society. Wh...

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