• Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work...
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  • Aaron D. Ames, American engineering researcher and professor Adelaide Ames (1900–1932), American astronomer, co-author of the Shapley-Ames Catalog Adelbert...
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  • brighter than 13.2 magnitude. It was compiled by Harlow Shapley and Adelaide Ames. They identified 1189 objects based on the New General Catalogue and...
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  • Shapley and Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude, later known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog 1948 —...
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    the Milky Way. She became friends with Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Adelaide Ames. She supported herself on a salary from Harvard and a stipend from her...
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    possible by a fellowship to encourage women to study at the observatory. Adelaide Ames had become the first student on the fellowship in 1922; the second was...
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    Island On June 26, 1932, while vacationing on Squam Lake, astronomer Adelaide Ames was taking a canoe tour with a friend on the lake when the boat capsized...
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  • May 31 – Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete (d. 1981) June 3 Adelaide Ames, American astronomer (d. 1932) Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist...
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  • Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) 1900 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932) 1900 – Leo Picard, German-Israeli...
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  • (b. 1848) 1927 – Armand Guillaumin, French painter (b. 1841) 1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900) 1938 – James Weldon Johnson...
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