Antonia Maury
Antonia Maury
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International Astronomical Union. She also spent many years studying the binary star Beta Lyrae. Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and Human Computers at the Harvard College Observatory.
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Female
Full Name
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury
Date of Birth
March 21st, 1866
Age
158
Birth Place
United States of America, New York
Date of Death
January 8th, 1952
Died Aged
85
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