Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star...
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singer John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813–1901), British photographer Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), American...
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Mayall's Object (also classified under the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years...
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American research teams to travel to Antarctica Empress Masako of Japan Margaret Mayall, astronomer Laura Meneses, political activist Ruth Messinger, politician...
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Gernsheim describes Mayall as "the earliest exponent of fine art photography," in advance of Oscar Rejlander and Julia-Margaret Cameron, on the basis...
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Directors William T. Olcott (1911–1918, Founder) Leon Campbell (1915–1949) Margaret Mayall (1949–1973) Janet A. Mattei (AAVSO Director 1973–2003) Elizabeth O...
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The award is named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. Margaret Burbidge was due to be given the 1972 award, but she refused it on the...
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painter MPC · 3341 3342 Fivesparks 1982 BD3 In honor of Newton and Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer. The name refers to their residence...
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southern constellation Musca. It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper Catalogue (the catalogue...
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funding. Phoebe Waterman Haas volunteered to assist the AAVSO Director, Margaret Mayall. For the next eleven years, Haas provided vital support by calculating...
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