Young, Anne Sewell, 1871-1961

LC control no.	n 90611789
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Young, Anne Sewell, 1871-1961 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Young, Anne Sewell, 1871- Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Walla Walla (Wash.) South Hadley (Mass.)
Birth date	1871-01-02
Death date	1961-08-15
Place of birth	Bloomington (Wis.)
Place of death	Claremont (Calif.)
Field of activity	Variable stars Astronomy
Affiliation	Whitman College Mount Holyoke College American Association of Variable Star Observers
Profession or occupation	Astronomers College teachers
Found in	LCCN 18-8784: Young, C.A. Lessons in astronomy, c1918 (hdg.: Young, Anne Sewell, 1871- ; usage: Anne Sewell Young) Rutherfurd photographs of the stellar clusters h and x Persei, 1906: title page (by Anne Sewell Young) Wikipedia, viewed November 21, 2019: Anne Sewell Young (Anne Sewell Young (January 2, 1871 - August 15, 1961) was an American astronomer. She was an astronomy professor at Mount Holyoke College for 37 years. Anne Sewell Young was born in Bloomington, Wisconsin ... She earned a B.L. from Minnesota's Carleton College in 1892. She then went to Walla Walla, Washington and taught mathematics at Whitman College for three years before returning to Carleton, earning her M.S. in 1897. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1906 ... Young started her career at Mount Holyoke College [in South Hadley, Massachusetts] in 1898. ... She was one of the eight founding members of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) and contributed over 6,500 variable star observations to the organization. She was elected the organization's President in 1923. Young retired in 1936 ... Young moved to Claremont, California with her sister; she died there on August 15, 1961 ...) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sewell_Young>
Associated language	eng