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Margaret Harwood

1885 - 1979

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Margaret Harwood (March 19, 1885 – February 6, 1979) was an American astronomer specializing in photometry and the first director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. An asteroid discovered in 1960 was named 7040 Harwood in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Harwood is the 498th most popular astronomer (up from 573rd in 2019), the 7,610th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,303rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Margaret Harwood ranks 498 out of 644. Before her are Guillermo Haro, Wilhelm Anderson, Luciano Tesi, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, and Forest Ray Moulton. After her are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Robert H. McNaught, Edwin Foster Coddington, and Frederik Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Margaret Harwood ranks 207. Before her are Ōsugi Sakae, Fritz von Unruh, Mae Murray, Stevan Hristić, Urani Rumbo, and Georges Passerieu. After her are Stith Thompson, Miroslav Kraljević, Anita Rée, María Grever, Malcolm Campbell, and Roland Dorgelès. Among people deceased in 1979, Margaret Harwood ranks 203. Before her are Johan Borgen, Guglielmo Segato, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Amelia Piccinini, Vilho Niittymaa, and Nikolai Tikhonov. After her are Maurizio Arena, Dorothy Arzner, Les Clark, Yervand Kochar, Corinne Griffith, and Jim Hutton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Harwood ranks 7,612 out of 20,380. Before her are Francis Spellman (1889), Ruby Bridges (1954), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Regis Philbin (1931), and Edmund Wilson (1895). After her are George Kennan (1845), Gary Hall Jr. (1974), Margaret Avery (1944), Leighton Meester (1986), Carol Ann Susi (1952), and Roxanne Hart (1952).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Margaret Harwood ranks 97. Before her are David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Adam Riess (1969), Edward S. Holden (1846), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), Cleveland Abbe (1838), and Forest Ray Moulton (1872). After her are Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), DeLisle Stewart (1870), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), and Grove Karl Gilbert (1843).

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