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...throwback, an astronomer who studied the features of "bright stars," those visible to the naked eye. Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born in Florence, Ala., on March 12, 1907, 23 years before the discovery of Pluto. At Yale, she compiled The Bright Star Catalogue, which described the positions of stars as well as their color, brightness and motion. In 1957 she became director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, Mass., where she mentored a generation of women who pursued astronomy careers. Hoffleit...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...
Herbert Benno Hoffleit of Cambridge...
...Blanchard, W. O. Bruckner, J. A. Cohen, E. C. Glover, H. B. Hoffleit, I. K. Huberman, R. L. Hyatt, Jr., L. M. Kole, H. G. Lowenstoin, W. H. Piston, Jr., A. C. Poletti, F. LaM. Santee, M. S. Silbert, Louis Solano, C. B. Townsend...
...Hinckley, A. P., 199 Bay State Rd., Boston. Hinckley, E. B., Go. A-23. Hirsh, M., 32 Glenway, Dorchester. Hitchcock, H. R. Jr., P. S. A-25. Hobson, A. L. Jr., P. S. B-34. Hodge, F. M., 9 Circuit Ave., Newton Highlands. Hodges, E., Sd. C-41. Hoffleit, H. B., 12 Farwell Place. Holder, D. S., P. S. A-41. Holland, H. T. Jr., 441 Centre, Boston. Hollister, C. H. Jr., Sd. B-24. Holmes, H. H., 265 Beacon, Somerville. Holmes, L. F., Go. B-43. Holmes, P. F., 22 Walter, Somerville. Holmes, W. S., 156 Ashmont, Dorchester. Homer...
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