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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Jump Cannon and Antonia Maury to produce the Harvard spectral classification scheme. In 1897, another astronomer at Harvard, Antonia Maury, placed the Orion...
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    Henry Draper, and his granddaughter, Antonia Maury, were astronomers. His granddaughter, Carlotta Maury (Antonia's younger sister), was a paleontologist...
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  • include: Abram Poindexter Maury (1801–1848), American politician and lawyer Alain Maury (born 1958), French astronomer Antonia Maury (1866–1952), American...
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    luminosity. He used the earlier classification system developed by Antonia Maury in his work. The so-called "Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram" has been used...
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    and helping to raise and homeschool his children. Her great-niece was Antonia Maury, the American astronomer, while her nephews included the chemist and...
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    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...
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    96 days. Its double nature was revealed spectroscopically in 1890 by Antonia Maury, making it the second spectroscopic binary discovered, and its variable...
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    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...
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    Observatory, in which a team of woman computers, notably Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and Annie Jump Cannon, classified the spectra recorded on photographic...
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    achievements accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. However, with Payne's...
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    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...
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    medalist in canoeing Ali Marpet, American football player in the NFL Antonia Maury, astronomer Abel Meeropol, writer; under his pseudonym Lewis Allan wrote...
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    astronomer Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The assistants also included Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury....
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • jiu-jitsu athlete Ana Paiva, Portuguese professor Antonia Maury (Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, 1866-1952), American astronomer Brittni Paiva (born...
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    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...
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    women astronomers working at the observatory. These included her niece Antonia Maury, who proposed new ways to classify stellar spectra, and Henrietta Swan...
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    Valentine Mott, Charles Piazzi Smyth, and John Tyndall. His niece was Antonia Maury, the American astronomer, while his brothers included the chemist and...
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  • 1839), father of astronomer Antonia Maury and paleontologist Carlotta Maury Walker Maury (b. 1840) Tobin Morris Maury (b. England 9 October 1841, d...
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    work for him, including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Antonia Maury, and Florence Cushman. It was very unusual for such an accomplished...
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  • Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883) 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866) 1953 – Hugh Binney...
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  • 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...
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  • and actor (died 2005) Michael Nakoneczny, American artist January 8 – Antonia Maury, astronomer (born 1866) January 18 – Curly Howard, vaudevillian (The...
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    Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Florence Cushman and Antonia Maury, all widely recognized today as major figures in scientific history...
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  • 1938) 1865 – George Owen Squier, American general (d. 1934) 1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952) 1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld...
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    unknown woman (seated), possibly Evelyn Leland, Mrs. Draper (seated), Antonia Maury, Williamina Fleming, possibly Mabel C. Stevens (or some other Stevens)...
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