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Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Educator

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Maria Mitchell

 

  • First Woman Astronomer in the United States

 

Maria Mitchell in the Vassar College Observatory, June 1878

  • First Scientist to Discover a Comet

 

  • One of the first professional women employed by the U.S. government

 

  • Anti-Slavery and Suffrage Advocate

 

  

Born in 1818; grew up on Nantucket (Massachusetts); raised in a Quaker family

 

 

 

More biographical information from the Vassar College Encyclopedia

 

 

Maria Mitchell at 200: A Pioneering Astronomer Who Fought for Women in Science

 

 

 

Miss Mitchell's Comet 

 

October 1, 1847: Maria Mitchell Discovers a Comet

 

  • She was 29 years old and using a two-inch telescope 

 

 

The Comet is Designated C/1847T1 

 

 

What Miss Mitchell Saw

 

 

 

 Maria Mitchell: History of Women in Science

 

 

 

 Pioneering American Astronomer

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