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146:'s assistant and worked on the search for minor planets. She obtained her master's degree in 1938. From 1941 to 1965, Oterma worked as an observer at the university's observatory. She obtained her PhD in 1955 with a dissertation on telescope optics. She was the first Finnish woman to obtain a PhD in astronomy.
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Oterma was quiet, modest in nature, and fearful of publicity. Anders Reiz, a professor at the
Copenhagen Observatory, among others, said Oterma was âsilent in eleven languagesâ. Oterma avoided appearing in photographs, and there are only a handful of pictures of her.
160:, Hungarian, English and also Arabic, for example. Oterma's original plans were to study Sanskrit, but it was not offered at the University of Turku, and the choice was ultimately focused on astronomy.
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897:Discoverers of comets
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