Dorothea Klumpke
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Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. In 1893, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate degree at the Sorbonne University. She joined the Paris Observatory where her work consiste
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Theses submitted to the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for the degree of Doctor of Mathematical Sciences by Dorothea Klumpke
The Roberts's observatory at their home in Crowborough, Sussex taken from A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-clusters and Nebulae
Tomb of Isaac Roberts in Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead, Merseyside
Isaac Roberts
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Isaac Roberts was a Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical
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…She was later appointed director of the observatory's Bureau of Measurements, a position she held for ten years. She married the amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts in 1901 and left the observatory to help him photograph all 52 of William Herschel's "areas of nebulosity". Following his death, she compiled and…
Roberts's tomb in Flaybrick Memorial Gardens
Isaac Roberts' magnum opus is generally considered to be his picture of the Great Nebula in Andromeda, shown in this plate. It was photographed on 29 December 1888.