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Astronomy

Born Before 20th Century:

• En Heduanna, circa 2354 BCE (Babylon)
• Aganice, circa 1878 BCE
• Aglaonike (Ancient Greece)
• Hypatia of Alexandria, c.370-415 AD (Greece, Egypt)
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  Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska, F. Lyra (Translator)
  Hypatia's Daughters : Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers (Hypatia Book) by Linda Lopez McAlister (Editor)
  Hypatia's Heritage : A History of Women in Science from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Alic
• Sophia Brahe, 16th Century (Denmark)
• Marie Cunitz, 1610-1664 (Germany)
• Maria Margarethe Winkelmann Kirch, 1670-1720 (Germany)
• Mme. Nichole-Reine Lepaute, 1723-1788 (France)
• Caroline Herschel, 1750-1848 (Germany)
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• Mary Fairfax Somerville, 1780-1872 (Scotland)
• Caterina Scarpellini, 1808-? (Italy)
• Maria Mitchell, 1818-1889 (U.S.A.)
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  The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association
  Maria Mitchell House
  Vassar College Observatory
  Sweeper in the Sky : The Life of Maria Mitchell by Helen Wright
  Maria Mitchell : The Soul of an Astronomer by Beatrice Gormley
• Sarah Frances Whiting, 1846-1927 (U.S.A.)
• Margaret Lindsey Murray Huggins, 1848-1915 (Ireland)
• Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming, 1857-1911 (U.S.A., Scotland)
• Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1941 (U.S.A.)
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• Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1868-1921 (U.S.A.)
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• Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly, 1898-1990 (U.S.A.)

Born 20th Century:

• Emma Bakes (Great Britain, U.S.A.)
• Bonnie Buratti (U.S.A.)
• Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge (Great Britain)
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Great Britain)
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• Eleanor Francis Helin (U.S.A.)
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  Dr. Helin Interview
• Helen Sawyer Hogg (U.S.A.)
  Helen Sawyer Hogg by Michael Webb
• Tamara E. Jernigan (U.S.A.)
• Rosaly M. C. Lopes-Gautier (Brazil, Great Britain, U.S.A.)
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Great Britain, U.S.A.)
  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin : An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Katherine Haramundanis (Editor) et al.
• Nancy Roman (U.S.A.)
• Carolyn Shoemaker (U.S.A.)
  Fact Sheet: Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter

• History of Astronomy