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Myrtle L. Richmond

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Richmond joined the Mount Wilson Observatory computing department in 1913, and retired in 1947, after she "ably assisted in a large number of stellar and solar investigations." She was listed as a member of the observatory's "investigatory staff" in 1917. Her work also helped to establish the
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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory: Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution
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Payne, William Wallace; Willard, Charlotte R.; Wilson, Herbert Couper; Wilson, Ralph Elmer; Gingrich, Curvin Henry (June–July 1913).
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Mount Wilson Observatory; Seares, Frederick Hanley; Kapteyn, J. C; Rhijn, P. J. van; Joyner, Mary C; Richmond, Myrtle L (1930).
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University of Denver and Colorado Seminary Catalogue (1908–1909): College of Liberal Arts, Graduate School, Preparatory School
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The mean color-index of stars of different apparent magnitudes. Some relations between magnitude scales
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Mean distribution of stars according to apparent magnitude and galactic latitude
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Mount Wilson catalogue of photographic magnitudes in selected areas 1–139
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Mount Wilson catalogue of photographic magnitudes in selected areas 1–139
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Richmond taught mathematics at the University of Denver, and worked at
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in Colorado in 1909. She was a fellow in mathematics and astronomy at
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Janssen, Edith M.; Vyssotsky, A. N.; Richmond, Myrtle L. (1943).
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Richmond enjoyed hiking. She died in 1973, aged 90 years, in
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Myrtle L. Richmond, from the 1907 Smith College yearbook
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Hansen, Julie M. Vinter; Richmond, Myrtle L. (1942).
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Sandage, Allan; Brown, Louis; Allan, Sandage (2004).
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in 1907, and earned a master's degree in 1908 at the
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Smith College
University of Denver
Chamberlin Observatory
Goodsell Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory
computer
Mount Wilson Observatory
Vinland, Kansas
Smith College
University of Denver
Chamberlin Observatory
Goodsell Observatory
Variable stars
comet
Pluto
moons of Jupiter
Harlow Shapley
Seth Barnes Nicholson
Julie Vinter Hansen
Pasadena
Woodstock, Vermont


"Miss Myrtle Richmond"


"Frank L. Richmond"
Annual register of the Alumnae Association of Smith College

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