Ann Merchant Boesgaard
Ann Merchant Boesgaard | |
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 Boesgaard in 1969 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Mount Holyoke College, University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Smithsonian Fellow, Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Website | http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~boes/ |
Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer and professor emerita who received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2019.[1] The minor planet 7804 Boesgaard was named after her in 1998, the name having been proposed by Dutch astronomers C.J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.[2]
Boesgaard received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1961 from Mount Holyoke College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.[3] She subsequently became a professor at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1967.
Boesgaard was the first woman to be granted time at the Mount Wilson Observatory telescope, the first woman to be awarded a tenure-track faculty position in astronomy at the University of Hawai'i, and the first woman to be elected president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[4] She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[5]
Honors and Awards[edit]
- NATO Senior Science Fellow (1973)
- College de France Medal (1980)
- Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Mount Holyoke College (1981)[6]
- Guggenheim Fellow (1986)[7]
- Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1990)
References[edit]
- ^ U. H. News (8 January 2019). "Astronomer receives American Astronomical Society's highest award | University of Hawaiʻi System News". Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ Helen Altonn, "Asteroid named for UH scientist", Honolulu Star-Bulletin (March 30, 1998), page A-5.
- ^ "Ann Boesgaard". University of Hawaii.
- ^ Trimble, Virginia; Weintraub, David A., eds. (2023). The sky is for everyone: women astronomers in their own words. Princeton Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-25391-6.
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Honorary degree recipients | LITS". lits.mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ "Ann Merchant Boesgaard – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
Further reading[edit]
- Boesgaard, Ann M. Making Things Work. In The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers In Their Own Words. Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub, editors. Princeton, Princeton University Press [2022].
- Boesgaard, Ann M. One woman's journey. Mercury, v. 21, January/February 1992: 19–22, 37. illus., ports. QB1.M43, v. 21
- Boesgaard, Ann M. In Who's who in technology. 7th ed. Kimberly A. McGrath, editor. New York, Gale Research [1995] page 109. T39.W5 1995
- Morrison, Nancy D., and Andrew Fraknoi. The 1990 A.S.P. awards. The Muhlmann Prize to Ann Boesgaard. Mercury, v. 19, November/December 1990: pages 182–185. illus., port.QB1.M43, v. 19
- Parker, Barry. Ann Boesgaard. In his Stairway to the stars; the story of the world's largest observatory. Drawings by Lori Scoffield. New York, Plenum Press [1994] pages 278–282. port. QB82.U62M387 1994.
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