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Antonia Maury

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Gender Female
Death72 years ago
Born Cold Spring
New York
United States
DiedDobbs Ferry
New York
United States
Field Astronomy
BooksAnnals 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
NationalityAmerican
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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.

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