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Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889

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Personal name headingMitchell, Maria, 1818-1889
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1818-08-01
Death date1889-06-28
Place of birthNantucket (Mass.)
Place of deathLynn (Mass.)
Profession or occupationAstronomers College teachers Librarians
Found inWwWA, hist. vol. (Mitchell, Maria, astronomer, educator; b. Nantucket Is., 1818; discovered new comet 1847, receiving the King of Denmark gold medal; 1st woman elected to membership Am. Acad. Arts & Sco., 1st prof. Vassar Coll., 1865-88; elected mem. Am. Phil. Soc., 1869; d. June 28, 1889)
Wikipedia, viewed on April 13, 2021 (Maria Mitchell; born August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died June 28, 1889, in Lynn, Massachusetts; American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator)
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The astronomer who questioned everything, 2022: CIP title page (Maria Mitchell) LAC CIP application (discovered Miss Mitchell's Comet in 1847; advocate for the rights of women; became one of the first female professors of astronomy and was the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; expert in navigation and librarian)
National bib agency no.1039L7434E
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