The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the...
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The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (category Harvard Computers)
halted because of her death. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic...
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research institute jointly operated by the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Cambridge...
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collaboration with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. In 1973, the Smithsonian and Harvard formalized the...
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Williamina Fleming (category Harvard Computers)
astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra...
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Harvard College Observatory people)
After being introduced to Harlow Shapley, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, where he had just established a graduate program in astronomy...
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Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College...
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Annie Jump Cannon (category Whitin Observatory)
gave Cannon access to the Harvard College Observatory. In 1896, Edward C. Pickering hired her as his assistant at the Observatory. In 1907, Cannon finished...
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The Oak Ridge Observatory (ORO, code: 801), also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. It was...
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Harlow Shapley (category Harvard College Observatory people)
1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal...
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Florence Cushman (category Harvard Computers)
American astronomer specializing in stellar classification at the Harvard College Observatory who worked on the Henry Draper Catalogue. Florence was born in...
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Edward Pickering began to supervise photographic spectroscopy at Harvard College Observatory, using the objective prism method. In 1886, Draper's widow, Mary...
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Antonia Maury (category Harvard Computers)
Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and human computers at the Harvard College Observatory. Antonia Maury was awarded...
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Donald Howard Menzel (category Harvard College Observatory people)
1923, and 1924 as research assistant to Harlow Shapley at the Harvard College Observatory. At Princeton University he acquired a second master's degree...
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(z=0.046). In 1930, Harlow Shapley and his colleagues at the Harvard College Observatory started a survey of galaxies in the southern sky, using photographic...
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Fred Lawrence Whipple (category Harvard College Observatory people)
August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid...
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Shapley moved with her husband to the Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, and from 1915 through 1927 she continued to publish...
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Stellar classification (redirect from Harvard Spectral Sequence)
Gifford (1971). The Harvard College Observatory: The first four directorships, 1839-1919 (1st ed.). Cambridge: M.A. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press...
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kappa mechanism. Leavitt, a graduate of Radcliffe College, worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic...
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Edward Charles Pickering (category Harvard University alumni)
Harvard College Observatory known and respected around the world, and it continues today to be a well-respected observatory and program. The Harvard College...
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Anna Winlock (category Harvard Computers)
Massachusetts, to the Director of the Harvard College Observatory as well as a professor of Astronomy at the main Harvard College. Upon her graduation she received...
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William Cranch Bond (category Harvard College Observatory people)
1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine (near Portland)...
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Gerard Kuiper (category Harvard College Observatory people)
under Robert Grant Aitken at the Lick Observatory. In 1935 he left to work at the Harvard College Observatory, where he met Sarah Parker Fuller (1913-2000)...
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Solon Irving Bailey (category Harvard College Observatory people)
asteroid 504 Cora, on June 30, 1902. Bailey joined the staff of Harvard College Observatory in 1887. He received an bachelor's and masters from Boston University...
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DeLisle Stewart (category Harvard College Observatory people)
1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he...
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Samuel Langley (category Harvard College Observatory people)
School of Boston, after which he became an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory. He then moved to a job at the United States Naval Academy, ostensibly...
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245H Page 250". Retrieved September 8, 2019. "Harvard College Observatory: Great Refractor". www.cfa.harvard.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2019. "Fitz/Clark...
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telescope assistants. The Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory was founded in 1889 by Harvard University at Mount Harvard near Lima, Peru. It was relocated to...
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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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