Antonia Maury
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Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spe
Harvard Computers at work, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941), Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), and Antonia Maury (1866–1952).
Maury lunar crater
Ejnar Hertzsprung
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Ejnar Hertzsprung was a Danish chemist and astronomer. He is best remembered for his role in developing the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of stars.
Hertzsprung in 1961
Hertzsprung (right) and Karl Schwarzschild in front of the Göttingen Observatory building (1909)