biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1863–1941)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Dover, Delaware, USA. She became deaf through contracting scarlet fever, entered Radcliffe College to study astronomy, and was appointed to the staff of the Harvard College Observatory in 1896. She reorganized the classification of stars in terms of surface temperature, and developed great skill in cataloguing them. Her classification of over 225 000 stars brighter than 9th or 10th magnitude was a major contribution. |
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