Asaph Hall
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Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of doub
Hall at the USNO in 1899
Hall's former home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after enlargement. Note Angeline on front steps and two workers.
Hall's Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Angeline Stickney
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Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall was an American mathematician and suffragist. She was married to astronomer Asaph Hall and collaborated with her husband in searching for the moons of Mars, performing mat
Asaph Hall
…the New-York Central College in McGrawville, New York, where he studied mathematics. There he took classes from an instructor of geometry and German, Angeline Stickney. In 1856 they married. In 1856, Hall took a job at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and turned out to be an expert computer…
Angeline Stickney
1878 portrait of Angeline Stickney Hall.