Harriet Williams Bigelow
Harriet Williams Bigelow | |
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Born | |
Died | June 27, 1934 Soerabaja, Java | (aged 64)
Alma mater | Smith College University of Michigan |
Occupation(s) | Instructor, astronomer |
Parent(s) | Dana Williams Bigelow Katherine Huntington[1] |
Harriet Williams Bigelow (June 7, 1870 − June 27, 1934) was an American instructor and astronomer.[2]
Born in Fayetteville, New York,[3] Harriet was the daughter of pastor Dana Williams Bigelow and Katherine Huntington.[1] Her family moved to Pitcher, New York, then in 1878 to Utica, New York where her father became pastor at the Memorial Presbyterian Church. Harriet attended the local public schools, graduating from Utica Free Academy in 1889. She matriculated to Smith College, a women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts, where she studied astronomy.[2]
After graduating with an A.B. in 1893, she taught at Granger Place school in
She became director of the
In 1934, she took a sabbatical year and traveled with her sister to Manila. She was on her way to visit observatories in South Africa when she died suddenly in Java.[8][9][10]
References
- ^ a b Leonard, John William, ed. (1908), Men of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, L.R. Hamersly, p. 219.
- ^ Bibcode:1934PA.....42..434W.
- ^ Leonard, John William (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, vol. 1, American Commonwealth Company, p. 99.
- ^ ISBN 0253208130.
- ^ Annual Report of the Librarian for 1905−1906, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 1907, p. 60.
- ^ "1923 Solar Eclipse Expedition", The University of Chicago Photographic Archive, retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ Officers of the AAVSO since 1911, American Association of Variable Star Observers, July 12, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-01.
- ^ Harriet Williams Bigelow, American Association of Variable Star Observers, 1929.
- Bibcode:1934JRASC..28..373C.
- ^ Death Notices, September, 1937 − September, 1938, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Libraries, May 6, 1939, p. 7.
External links
- Query Results from the Astronomy Database, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), retrieved 2017-10-31.