Sarah Lee Lippincott

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Sarah Lee Lippincott
Born(1920-10-26)October 26, 1920
Binary stars
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsSwarthmore College Sproul Observatory

Sarah Lee Lippincott (October 26, 1920 – February 28, 2019),

professor emerita of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director emerita of the college's Sproul Observatory
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extrasolar planets
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Education

Lippincott received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 and an Master of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1942.

Life

Lippincott was born in 1920 and attended college at the University of Pennsylvania College for Women in the 1940s, where she played on the women's basketball team.[5]

After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, Lippincott attended Swarthmore College, where she worked closely with Peter van de Kamp on many astrometry projects between 1945 and his retirement in 1972, when she became observatory director. She wrote his obituary when he died in 1995.[6]

She was the third wife of

Today show. Garroway had an active interest in astronomy, and they met on a tour of observatories in the Soviet Union that she was hosting.[7] After Garroway's death by suicide at their home in 1982, she helped establish the Dave Garroway Laboratory for the Study of Depression at the University of Pennsylvania.[8]

She conducted numerous

extrasolar planets. She reported the discovery of several objects of substellar mass and proposed a 0.01 solar-mass planetary companion to the star Lalande 21185 in 1951. The same proposal of planetary objects was made for a number of other stars, as well.[9] Claims for the smaller planetary objects were never confirmed and gradually have become discredited. However, she was quite successful in using the same techniques for characterizing many binary star systems. Her 1951 calculations of the orbit of the difficult astronomical binary star system Ross 614 were used to successfully find and image the system's secondary star.[10] These calculations were used by Walter Baade to find and optically resolve this binary system for the first time using the then new 5 m (200 in) Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.[11]

She is listed as professor emerita of astronomy and director emerita of the Sproul Observatory in the 2010 Swarthmore college catalog. She last published astronomy research papers in 1983. In 2009, she attended the dedication ceremony for the new Peter van de Kamp observatory at Swarthmore College.[12]

Lippincott died on February 28, 2019, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.[3]

Honors and awards

In 1966, she received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award.[13]

In 1973, she was awarded an honorary doctor of science by Villanova University.[2][14]

In 1976, she was elected to the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania (as Mrs. Christian Zimmerman).[15]

Sample publications

Books

Lippincott authored two books, with coauthors:

Papers

Lippincott published over one hundred papers in her career. These are two typical examples:

References

  1. ^ Who's who in Frontier Science and Technology. Vol. 1. Marquis Who's Who, 1984. 1984. p. 447.
  2. ^ a b "Swarthmore College Archives, Astronomy Department Records, 1899-1986". Retrieved 2009-06-03.
  3. ^ a b "Sarah Lee Zimmerman | Kuzo, Foulk, And Cleveland Funeral Homes". Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Swarthmore College Faculty and Other Instructional Staff". Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  5. ^ "Yearbook of the College for Women, 1940, University of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  6. Bibcode:1995BAAS...27.1483L
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  7. St. Petersburg Times. July 22, 1982. Retrieved 2009-06-03. [dead link
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  8. hdl:1903.1/1488
  9. doi:10.1086/106503
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  10. doi:10.1086/106471
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  11. doi:10.1086/346143
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  12. ^ Jeffrey Lott (July 2009). "New Peter van de Kamp Observatory Dedicated". Swarthmore College Bulletin. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  13. ^ Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award Recipients, 1966, Sarah Lee Lippincott
  14. Bibcode:1973Mercu...2R..15. {{cite journal}}: External link in |journal= (help
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  15. ^ "Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2009-06-03.

External links

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