Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit...

produced a stellar classification system that is still in use today. Antonia Maury discerned in the spectra a way to assess the relative sizes of stars...

Fontaine Maury of the U. S. Naval Observatory and later shared to honor Antonia Maury of Harvard College Observatory. The crater lies in the northeastern...

Jump Cannon and Antonia Maury to produce the Harvard spectral classification scheme. In 1897, another astronomer at Harvard, Antonia Maury, placed the Orion...

Henry Draper, and his granddaughter, Antonia Maury, were astronomers. His granddaughter, Carlotta Maury (Antonia's younger sister), was a paleontologist...

include: Abram Poindexter Maury (1801–1848), American politician and lawyer Alain Maury (born 1958), French astronomer Antonia Maury (1866–1952), American...

luminosity. He used the earlier classification system developed by Antonia Maury in his work. The so-called "Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram" has been used...

and helping to raise and homeschool his children. Her great-niece was Antonia Maury, the American astronomer, while her nephews included the chemist and...

started by Nettie Farrar, but she left a few months later to be married. Antonia Maury advocated for a complex classification scheme. Fleming, however, wanted...

96 days. Its double nature was revealed spectroscopically in 1890 by Antonia Maury, making it the second spectroscopic binary discovered, and its variable...

married. This left the problem to the ideas of Henry Draper's niece Antonia Maury (who insisted on a complex classification system) and Williamina Fleming...

Observatory, in which a team of woman computers, notably Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and Annie Jump Cannon, classified the spectra recorded on photographic...

achievements accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. However, with Payne's...

ultimately in the Henry Draper Catalogue. In one segment of this work Antonia Maury included divisions of the stars by the width of their spectral lines...

medalist in canoeing Ali Marpet, American football player in the NFL Antonia Maury, astronomer Abel Meeropol, writer; under his pseudonym Lewis Allan wrote...

astronomer Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The assistants also included Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury....

mother was Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil. His niece, Antonia Maury was also an...

jiu-jitsu athlete Ana Paiva, Portuguese professor Antonia Maury (Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, 1866-1952), American astronomer Brittni Paiva (born...

HR 2583. Antonia Maury and Pickering published a more detailed study of the spectra of bright stars in the northern hemisphere in 1897. Maury used classifications...

conclusions was that the narrow spectral lines in c-type stars, as found by Antonia Maury, were most likely caused by lower pressure in the stellar atmospheres...

women astronomers working at the observatory. These included her niece Antonia Maury, who proposed new ways to classify stellar spectra, and Henrietta Swan...

Valentine Mott, Charles Piazzi Smyth, and John Tyndall. His niece was Antonia Maury, the American astronomer, while his brothers included the chemist and...

1839), father of astronomer Antonia Maury and paleontologist Carlotta Maury Walker Maury (b. 1840) Tobin Morris Maury (b. England 9 October 1841, d...

work for him, including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Antonia Maury, and Florence Cushman. It was very unusual for such an accomplished...

Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883) 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866) 1953 – Hugh Binney...

5 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869) January 8 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer (b. 1866) January 11 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny...

Payne-Gaposchkin 1937 Charlotte Moore Sitterly 1940 Julie Vinter Hansen 1943 Antonia Maury 1946 Emma Vyssotsky 1949 Helen Sawyer Hogg 1952 Ida Barney 1955 Helen...

Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Florence Cushman and Antonia Maury, all widely recognized today as major figures in scientific history...

1938) 1865 – George Owen Squier, American general (d. 1934) 1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952) 1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld...

and actor (died 2005) Michael Nakoneczny, American artist January 8 – Antonia Maury, astronomer (born 1866) January 18 – Curly Howard, vaudevillian (The...