Maria mitchell astronomer biography of abraham

David Caruso

ACTOR

1956 - Present

HPI: 67.24

Rank: 1,627

Kelly McGillis

ACTOR

1957 - Present

HPI: 67.24

Rank: 1,628

Robert Fogel

ECONOMIST

1926 - 2013

HPI: 67.24

Rank: 1,629

Dick Fosbury

ATHLETE

1947 - 2023

HPI: 67.24

Rank: 1,630

Dudley R.

Herschbach

CHEMIST

1932 - Present

HPI: 67.23

Rank: 1,631

Bessie Smith

SINGER

1894 - 1937

HPI: 67.23

Rank: 1,632

Maria Mitchell

ASTRONOMER

1818 - 1889

HPI: 67.22

Rank: 1,633

Jean Webster

WRITER

1876 - 1916

HPI: 67.22

Rank: 1,634

John Vincent Atanasoff

PHYSICIST

1903 - 1995

HPI: 67.21

Rank: 1,635

Barry Levinson

FILM DIRECTOR

1942 - Present

HPI: 67.21

Rank: 1,636

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Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy after accepting a position at Vassar College in 1865. It works to promote science on the island and honor Maria Mitchell's work. She started following Unitarian ideas. The job was to use her astronomy and maths skills to predict the positions of the planets over time.

In 1850, she joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For the total solar eclipse of July 29, 1878, Maria and five assistants traveled to Denver with a telescope to observe it. The King of Denmark gave her a gold medal for her discovery. This award was for the first person to discover a new comet that could only be seen with a telescope.

After her are Zachris Topelius, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Benjamin Butler, Thomas Mayne Reid, Amalia of Oldenburg, and Frederick Douglass. Before her are Henry Norris Russell (1877), Edward Charles Pickering (1846), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), and Frank Drake (1930). She was only the 3rd women to ever discover a comet.

Her family were Quakers, a religious group that believed strongly in education and hard work. Before her are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Wilhelm Tempel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Twenty-five of her students were later listed in Who's Who in America.

After teaching at Vassar for some time, Maria found out that her salary was less than that of younger male professors.

They helped her explore the idea that sunspots were like holes on the sun's surface, not clouds. For example, she thought about how stars orbit each other in double star systems. At age 12, Maria helped her father to calculate the position of their home by observing a solar eclipse. She made a brave choice to let non-white children attend her school.