Adelaide Ames

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Ames ya halarci Kwalejin Vassar har zuwa 1922 sannan ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Radcliffe,inda aka kirkiro shirin kammala karatun digiri na kwanan nan a ilimin taurari.Ames ta kammala karatun digiri a 1924 a matsayin mace ta farko da ke da MA a ilimin taurari a Radcliffe.Tun da farko ta yi niyyar zama 'yar jarida,amma ba ta sami aiki a yankin ba,maimakon haka ta karɓi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar bincike a Harvard College Observatory(HCO),mukamin da ta riƙe har mutuwarta.[1]Abin da ya fi mayar da hankali a kan aikinta shine kididdigar taurari a cikin taurarin Coma da Virgo.A cikin 1931,kundin da aka gama ya haɗa da abubuwa kusan 2800.Wannan aikin ya sami zama memba a cikin Hukumar IAU 28 akan Nebulae da Taurari.

  1. Research Astronomer Lost by Drowning. In: Popular astronomy, Vol. 40, August/September 1932, S. 448–449. (online)