Antonia Maury
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 73 years ago |
| Born | Cold Spring |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Died | Dobbs Ferry |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Field | Astronomy |
| Books | Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Vol. XXVIII. -Part I. Spectra of Bright Stars |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Date of birth | March 21,1866 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Awards | Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy |
| Parents | Virginia Draper |
| Mytton Maury | |
| Date of died | January 8,1952 |
| Education | Vassar College |
| Nationality | American |
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| ID | 468516 |
Antonia Maury Life story
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.
