Margaret Mayall
Margaret Mayall | |
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Born |
January 27, 1902 Iron Hill, Maryland |
Died |
December 6, 1995 93) Cambridge, Massachusetts | (aged
Cause of death | Congestive heart failure |
Nationality | American |
Education | Swarthmore College |
Alma mater |
Swarthmore College Radcliffe College (M.A.) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | astronomy |
Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949 to 1973.[1]
Mayall (born Margaret Lyle Walton) was born in Iron Hill, Maryland, on 27 January 1902.[1] She attended the University of Delaware and Swarthmore College. She earned an MA in Astronomy from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1928. She worked as a research assistant and astronomer at Harvard College Observatory from 1924 to 1954, and was at the Heat Research Laboratory, Special Weapons Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1943 to 1946.[2]
While working in Nantucket, she met Robert Newton Mayall, a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). They married in 1927.[1]
In 1958 she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.[1]
She died of congestive heart failure in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 6 December 1995.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Margaret Walton Mayall (1902–1995) | American Astronomical Society". aas.org.
- ↑ Saladyga, Michael. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (PDF). p. 751.
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Further reading
- Williams, Thomas R.; Saladyga, Michael (2011). Advancing Variable Star Astronomy: The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49634-6.