Ellen Hayes
Ellen Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was one of the first female American professors.
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Alice Everett
Alice Everett was a mathematician and astronomer who studied the mathematical tripos at Girton College, worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and then at the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory. She had a second career working on optics at the National Physical Laboratory. Her final career was working on the early developments of television broadcasting.
Annie Scott Dill Maunder
Annie Scott Dill Maunder was a Northern Irish astronomer and mathematician who studied the mathematical tripos at Cambridge then worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. She was the first to find evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun’s 11-year cycle.
Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke was an Irish astronomer and writer on both astronomy and biography.
Amélie Harlay
Amélie Harlay was a French astronomer who published navigational tables and catalogues of stars.
Maria Cunitz
Maria Cunitz was an astronomer who published simpler versions of Kepler’s work.
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel recorded the observations and did the calculations on the data of her astronomer brother William.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British mathematician and astronomer who did important work for her Ph.D. at Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She showed that stars were composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium but, although completely correct, it was rejected by astronomers at the time.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. This was a vital step in measuring the distance to remote galaxies.
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
Nicole-Reine Lepaute was a French noblewoman who helped Lalande with astronomical calculations.