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66 relations: American Astronomical Society, Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, Antonia Maury, Arequipa Region, Astronomer, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomy, Balmer series, Bibliography, Binary star, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cannon (crater), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg, Century of Progress, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Dover, Delaware, Edward Charles Pickering, Ellen Swallow Richards, GIF, Google Doodle, Harvard College, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Computers, Harvard University, Hearing loss, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Henry Draper, Henry Draper Catalogue, Henry Draper Medal, Household economics, International Astronomical Union, Judy Chicago, League of Women Voters, List of women in the Heritage Floor, Maria Mitchell Association, Mnemonic, National Woman's Party, Nova, Oglethorpe University, PDF, Phi Beta Kappa, Photographic magnitude, Photography, Radcliffe College, Royal Astronomical Society, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Sarah Frances Whiting, Scarlet fever, Sisters of the Sun, ..., Southern Hemisphere, Spectroscopy, State senator, Stellar classification, Suffragette, The Dinner Party, University of Delaware, University of Groningen, University of Oxford, Valedictorian, Variable star, Wellesley College, Wesley College (Delaware), Williamina Fleming, World's Columbian Exposition, 1120 Cannonia. Expand index (16 more) »
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC.
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Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a Ph.D., for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy.
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Antonia Maury
Antonia Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra.
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Arequipa Region
Arequipa (Ariqipa; Ariqipa) is a region in southwestern Peru.
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Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889.
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Astronomy
Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.
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Balmer series
The Balmer series or Balmer lines in atomic physics, is the designation of one of a set of six named series describing the spectral line emissions of the hydrogen atom.
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Bibliography
Bibliography (from Greek βιβλίον biblion, "book" and -γραφία -graphia, "writing"), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from Greek -λογία, -logia).
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Binary star
A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common barycenter.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
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Cannon (crater)
Cannon is a lunar impact crater that is located near the east-northeastern limb of the Moon's near side.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was a British–American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.
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Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg
The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) is a data hub which collects and distributes astronomical information.
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Century of Progress
A Century of Progress International Exposition was a World's Fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was held in Chicago, as The Chicago World's Fair, from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial.
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series.
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Dover, Delaware
Dover is the capital and second-largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware.
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Edward Charles Pickering
Prof Edward Charles Pickering FRS(For) HFRSE (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother to William Henry Pickering.
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Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century.
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GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format, better known by its acronym GIF, is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the bulletin board service (BBS) provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987.
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Google Doodle
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people.
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Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University.
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Harvard College Observatory
The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy.
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Harvard Computers
The Harvard Observatory, under the direction of Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) had a number of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hearing loss
Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
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Henry Draper
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 – November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer.
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Henry Draper Catalogue
The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD) is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension (HDE), published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the Henry Draper Extension Charts (HDEC), published from 1937 to 1949 in the form of charts, which gave classifications for 86,933 more stars.
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Henry Draper Medal
The Henry Draper Medal is awarded every 4 years by the United States National Academy of Sciences "for investigations in astronomical physics".
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Household economics
Household economics covers the economic analysis of all decisions made by households.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.
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League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is an American civic organization that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote.
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List of women in the Heritage Floor
This list documents all 999 mythical, historical and notable women who are displayed on the handmade white tiles of the Heritage Floor as part of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party art installation (1979).
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Maria Mitchell Association
The Maria Mitchell Association is a private non-profit organization on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.
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National Woman's Party
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's organization formed in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which had been formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight for women's suffrage.
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Nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) or classical nova (CN, plural CNe) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star, that slowly fades over several weeks or many months.
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Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University is a private, liberal arts college in Brookhaven, a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.
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Photographic magnitude
Before the advent of photometers which accurately measure the brightness of astronomical objects, the apparent magnitude of an object was obtained by taking a picture of it with a camera.
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Photography
Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
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Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.
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Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by 'gentleman astronomers' rather than professionals).
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San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
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Sarah Frances Whiting
Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 – September 12, 1927), American physicist and astronomer, was the instructor to several astronomers, including Annie Jump Cannon.
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Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever is a disease which can occur as a result of a group A ''streptococcus'' (group A strep) infection.
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Sisters of the Sun
"Sisters of the Sun" is the eighth episode of the American documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation.
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State senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate, the upper house in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a legislator in Nebraska's one-house state legislature.
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Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics.
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Suffragette
Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.
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The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago.
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University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD, UDel, or U of D) is a public research university located in Newark, Delaware.
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University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.
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Valedictorian
Valedictorian is an academic title of success used in the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Philippines for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction).
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Variable star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates.
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Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.
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Wesley College (Delaware)
Wesley College is an American private, co-educational, liberal arts college, located in Dover, the capital of Delaware.
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Williamina Fleming
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911) was a Scottish-American astronomer.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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1120 Cannonia
1120 Cannonia, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon
