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Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor. She won a gold medal prize for her discovery, which was presented to her by King Christian VIII of Denmark in 1848. Mitchell was the first internationally known woman to work as both a professional astronomer and…
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culture · American astronomer (1818–1889) · astronomer · librarian · university teacher · writer · naturalist · also Maria Mitchell, Mitchell
Born 1 August 1818 · Died 29 June 1889 · Q239229
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,984 Wikipedia readers in one day, 100.7× the usual 50, with 0 article edits.
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2013· 1 entry
The search engine Google honored Maria Mitchell with a Google Doodle showing her in cartoon form on top of a roof gazing through a telescope in search of comets
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1994).
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1989· 1 entry
Mitchell was named a National Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994
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1889· 1 entry
Died 1889-06-29.
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1875· 1 entry
And 1876 before stepping down to head a special Committee on Science to analyze and promote women's progress in the field
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1873· 1 entry
Mitchell joined the national women's movement and helped found the Association for the Advancement of Women (AAW), a group dedicated to educational reform and the promotion of women in higher education
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1869· 1 entry
Mitchell became one of the first women elected to the American Philosophical Society, alongside Mary Somerville and Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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1868· 1 entry
And her students began photographing them daily in 1873
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1865· 1 entry
And became the first female professor of astronomy
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1850· 1 entry
And befriended many of its members, including the director of the Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Henry
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1849· 1 entry
Mitchell accepted a computing and field research position for the U
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1848· 3 entries
Mitchell was awarded a gold medal prize for her discovery by King Christian VIII of Denmark
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1848).
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Mitchell did not physically receive the award in Nantucket until March 1849
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1847· 1 entry
Discovered a comet named 1847 VI (modern designation C/1847 T1) that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor
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1843· 1 entry
Mitchell converted to Unitarianism, although she did not physically attend a Unitarian Church until more than twenty years later
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1841· 1 entry
Mitchell attended the anti-slavery convention in Nantucket where Frederick Douglass made his first speech, and she also became involved in the anti-slavery movement by boycotting clothes made of Southern cotton
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1836· 1 entry
Mitchell began working as the first librarian of the Nantucket Atheneum, a position she held for 20 years
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1831· 1 entry
At the age of 12, Mitchell aided her father in calculating the exact moment of a solar eclipse
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1818· 2 entries
On the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Lydia Coleman Mitchell, a library worker, and William Mitchell, a schoolteacher and amateur astronomer
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Born 1818-08-01.
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