Английская Википедия:Ida E. Woods
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Ida E. Woods (September 16, 1870 – October 4, 1940) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory.
Early life
Ida Elizabeth Woods was born in Natick, Massachusetts, the daughter of Oliver Powers Woods and Martha Wright Woods. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893.[1][2]
Career
Woods began working As a human computer at Harvard College Observatory immediately after graduating from college in 1893,[3] where she worked alongside Harlow Shapley and Annie Jump Cannon. She studied photographic plates to discover dozens of variable stars during her career.[1][4][5][6] She attended the meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) in 1916, when it was held at Harvard.[7]
Publications by Woods included "Light Curve and Orbit of a New Eclipsing Binary H. V. 3622" (1922),[8] "Fifty New Variable Stars in the Southern Milky Way" (1926),[9] "The Southern Station of the Harvard Observatory" (1927),[10] and "Forty New Variable Stars in Sagitarrius" (1928).[11]
Woods held the Sarah F. Whitin Fellowship from Wellesley College in 1912, to fund her research at Harvard.[12][13] She was a member of the Sagamore Sociological Conference.[14]
Personal life
Woods died in 1940, at her home in Natick. She was 70 years old.[15]
References
External links
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- ↑ "Degrees Conferred in 1893" ''Calendar'' (Wellesley College 1894): 95.
- ↑ "Alumnae Notes" Шаблон:Webarchive The Wellesley Magazine (November 1893): 114.
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- ↑ Woods, Ida E. "The Southern Station of the Harvard Observatory" Harvard College Observatory Bulletin (October 1927): 1.
- ↑ Ida E. Woods, "Forty New Variable Stars in Sagittarius" Harvard College Observatory Bulletin (February 1928): 22.
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