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227: 33: 821: 254:; Harwood was the first recipient of the fellowship, receiving $ 1,000.While she was member of this fellowship, she spent her time traveling between the Mitchell Observatory and the Harvard Observatory, where she would continue her work for both observatories. Though she was given an offer to come back to the Mitchell Observatory in 1915, she decided to the 301:. At the time, "senior people around her advised her not to report it as a new discovery because it was inappropriate that a woman should be thrust into the limelight with such a claim". However, Harwood did send her photographs of her discovery to Peters for him to include in his study of the asteroid's orbit. In 1960, an asteroid discovered at 809: 261:
In 1916, at 30 years old, Harwood was named director of Mitchell Observatory, and worked there until her retirement in 1957. For many years, she was the first and only woman to be hired as director of the observatory, which was independently funded. Her specialty, photometry, involved measuring
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in Mt. Hamilton, California, where she went not only to continue her work, but to also work towards obtaining her Master's Degree in Astronomy.
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area, including the Volkman School in Boston, the Buckingham School in Cambridge, and Faulkner School, in Dedham. Shortly after, an astronomical
767: 554: 381: 206:, one of nine children of Herbert Joseph Harwood and Emelie Augusta Green. In 1907 she received her Bachelor's Degree in Astronomy (AB) from 861: 345: 107: 93: 643: 881: 866: 694: 620: 546: 432: 647: 275: 799: 337: 333: 226: 317: 279: 251: 179: 145: 282:, she traveled widely in Europe and the United States. In 1923, she became the first woman to gain access to the 283: 215: 203: 53: 161: 175: 846: 841: 726: 463: 427: 612: 302: 298: 239: 140: 409: 763: 734: 690: 686: 616: 550: 377: 369: 329: 287: 231: 207: 87: 574: 540: 825: 813: 448: 320:
and taught at MIT during World War II. She is buried at the Westlawn Cemetery in Littleton.
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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A Scientific Outpost: The First Half Century of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association
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Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America
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Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"
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In 1912, after graduating from Radcliffe College, she worked at the
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The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary
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Harwood was the first woman to receive an honorary Ph.D. from
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Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
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Littleton, Massachusetts
Boston
Radcliffe College
University of California, Berkeley
Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
Astronomy
Harvard Observatory
Maria Mitchell Observatory
Margaret Gentle Harwood
astronomer
photometry
Maria Mitchell Observatory
Nantucket
Massachusetts
7040 Harwood
Littleton, Massachusetts
Radcliffe College
Phi Beta Kappa
University of California

Harvard Computers
Harvard Observatory
Boston
fellowship
Maria Mitchell Observatory
Lick Observatory
stars
asteroids
433 Eros

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