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ASTRONOMY THROUGH THE AGES: The Twentieth Century by Lesa Moore and Ian Kemp

1. – Annie Jump Cannon
2. , – Albert Einstein
3. c. – Hertrzsprung and Russell
4. – Henrietta Swan Leavitt
5. – Mary Adela Blagg
6. , – Arthur Stanley Eddington
7. – Prof. Alexander David Ross
8. – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
9. – Georges Lemaître
10. – Edwin Hubble
11. From – Ruby Payne-Scott
12. From – E. Margaret Burbidge
13. From s – Vera Rubin
14. From s – Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker
15. From – Beatrice Tinsley
16. From – Stephen Hawking
17. – Jocelyn Bell Burnell
18. – Ray Davis
19. From – Eleanor ‘Glo’ Helin
20. From – Rev. Robert Evans
21. From – Carolyn Porco
22. – Kip Thorne
23. From – Margaret Geller

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    The women who opened the doors to astronomy

    In France, Dorothea Klumpke (–) earned her Docteur-ès-Sciences at the University of Paris in mathematical astronomy in , after completing her thesis, “L’etude des Anneaux de Saturne” (A study of the rings of Saturn), thereby becoming the first woman to achieve the academic distinction of earning an advanced degree for work done in astronomy. She then began her distinguished career as the director of the Bureau des Measures at Observatoire de Paris, leading the effort there to produce a section of the great photographic star chart known as the Carte du Ciel. In , she married astronomer Isaac Roberts and moved with him to England. After his death in , Klumpke Roberts returned to Observatoire de Paris, where she continued to carry out astronomical research, and in published The Isaac Roberts Atlas of 52 Regions, a Guide to William Herschel’s Fields of Nebulosity. In , she was elected Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

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