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Antonia Maury

1866 - 1952

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Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866 – January 8, 1952) 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. She also spent many years studying the binary star Beta Lyrae. Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and human computers at the Harvard College Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonia Maury is the 276th most popular astronomer (up from 303rd in 2019), the 3,971st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,363rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Antonia Maury ranks 276 out of 644. Before her are Aleksander Wolszczan, Cleostratus, Gottfried Kirch, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Sandra Faber, and Daniel Kirkwood. After her are Marguerite Laugier, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, André-Louis Danjon, Geminiano Montanari, Philibert Jacques Melotte, and Heber Doust Curtis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Antonia Maury ranks 65. Before her are Reginald Fessenden, Holger Nielsen, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Robert Broom, Roger Fry, and António José de Almeida. After her are Charles Mangin, Pyotr Lebedev, Stamata Revithi, Władysław Podkowiński, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Wakatsuki Reijirō. Among people deceased in 1952, Antonia Maury ranks 81. Before her are Krystyna Skarbek, Thomas Hicks, Vladimir Albitsky, Yitzhak Sadeh, Theodoros Pangalos, and Sameera Moussa. After her are Juan Yagüe, Rued Langgaard, Richard Hildebrandt, Silvio Cator, Josephine Tey, and Maurice De Waele.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 3,971 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert James Waller (1939), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Robert Gordon (1947), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Dabney Coleman (1932), and Ronald Inglehart (1934). After her are Christopher Cross (1951), Kamehameha IV (1834), Mike Markkula (1942), Sam Rockwell (1968), Neil Postman (1931), and Annette O'Toole (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Antonia Maury ranks 50. Before her are Charles T. Kowal (1940), William Cranch Bond (1789), Halton Arp (1927), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Sandra Faber (1944), and Daniel Kirkwood (1814). After her are Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), James W. Christy (1938), Eugene Parker (1927), Frank Muller (1862), and Charles Dillon Perrine (1867).

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