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Roman, Nancy Grace, 1925-2018

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Personal name headingRoman, Nancy Grace, 1925-2018
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LocatedReno (Nev.) Baltimore (Md.) Washington (D.C.) Chevy Chase (Md.)
Birth date1925-05-16
Death date2018-12-26
Place of birthNashville (Tenn.)
Place of deathGermantown (Montgomery County, Md.)
Field of activityHubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
Astronomy
AffiliationUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
Yerkes Observatory
Profession or occupationAstronomers
Found inLCCN 58-14778: Her Comparison of the large-scale structure of the galactic system, 1958 (hdg.: Roman, Nancy Grace, 1925- )
Yasuda, A. Astronomy, cool women in space, c2015 (Nancy Grace Roman)
Wikipedia, Sept. 18, 2015 (Nancy Grace Roman (born May 16, 1925) is a noted American astronomer who was one of the first female executives at NASA. She is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, Roman has also been an active public speaker and educator, and an advocate for women in the sciences; b. in Nashville, Tenn.; resides in Washington, D.C.)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman>
New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 31, 2018 (in obituary published Dec. 30: Nancy Roman; b. Nancy Grace Roman, May 16, 1925, Nashville; the family later moved to Reno, then to Baltimore; d. Wednesday [Dec. 26, 2018], Germantown, Md., aged 93; lived in Chevy Chase, Md.; as NASA's first chief of astronomy and the first woman in a leadership position at the space agency, she oversaw the early planning for the Hubble Space Telescope)
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