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Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942) Vicky Kalogera, Greek astrophysicist. Lyudmila Karachkina (born 1948), Russian astronomer studying astrometry and minor planets. Victoria Kaspi (born 1967), American-Canadian astrophysicist and instructor. Lisa Kewley (born 1974), Australian astronomer studying galactic evolution.
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (/ ˈruːbɪn /; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. [1][2] She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. These results were later confirmed over subsequent decades.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (/ ˈlɛvɪt /; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921 [2]) was an American astronomer. [1] Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the scale and understanding of the scale and the nature of the universe. [3] Nomination of Leavitt for the Nobel Prize had to be halted ...
Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer.She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively.
Caroline Lucretia Herschel [1] (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl, ˈ h ɛər ʃ əl / HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, [2] German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, [3] whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. [4]
In 1989, Mitchell was named a National Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994. [34] She was the namesake of a World War II Liberty ship , the SS Maria Mitchell , and New York's Metro North commuter railroad (with its Hudson Line endpoint in ...
Annie Jump Cannon (/ ˈkænən /; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. [2] With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize ...
Cooper was born in 1985 in New Jersey to a Korean mother and African-American father, and World War II veteran. [3] She received a B.S. degree in Physics (minor in Space, Earth, and Atmospheric sciences) from Hampton University in 2006, followed by an M.S. degree in 2008 and a Ph.D. in 2009, both in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in thermal fluid sciences from Drexel University ...