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Margaret Mayall

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Oral history interview with Margaret Mayall on 12 September 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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Oral history interview with Margaret Mayall on 11 August 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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on classifying star spectra and estimating star brightness. During this time, she would spend summers working with
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Advancing Variable Star Astronomy: The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
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Mayall (born Margaret Lyle Walton) was born in Iron Hill, Maryland, on 27 January 1902. She attended the
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In 1957, she was the recipient of the G. Bruce Blair Gold Medal from the Western Amateur Society.
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While working in Nantucket, she met Robert Newton Mayall, a member of the
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Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
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The Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials
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Maryland
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
Radcliffe College
M.A.
Astronomy
American Association of Variable Star Observers
University of Delaware
Swarthmore College
Radcliffe College
Harvard College Observatory
Annie Jump Cannon
Margaret Hardwood
Maria Mitchell Observatory
Nantucket
MA
variable stars
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
minor planet
3342 Fivesparks
Cambridge




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