Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational c
Parrish Hall, named in honor of the first president, Edward Parrish (1822–1872), contains the admissions, housing, and financial aid offices, along with student housing on the upper floors
Swarthmore SEPTA Station at the foot of campus
Parrish Hall from Magill Walk
Cunningham House
Nancy Grace Roman
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Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first chief of a
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…1959), suffragist Alice Paul (1905), astronaut and first American woman in space Sally Ride (non-graduate), "mother of the Hubble Space Telescope" Nancy Roman (1946), musical composer and satirist Peter Schickele (1957) US Congressman Chris Van Hollen (1983), and former World Bank president Robert Zoellick…
Nancy Grace Roman in 1969
Roman at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, around 1972
Nancy Grace Roman in her NASA office in the 1960s
Roman with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory in 1962