scienceyoucanlove:

It’s the BELATED  birthday of Adelaide Ames, who was born in 1900 in Rock Island, Illinois. Ames attended Radcliffe College, where in 1924 she became the first student to complete the college’s new graduate astronomy program. Unable to pursue her original career choice, journalism, Ames joined the research staff of the Harvard College Observatory. There, she and observatory director Harlow Shapley compiled what became known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog of Bright Galaxies. Published in 1932, the catalog contained 1249 objects and became a primary source for extragalactic astronomers for 60 years. Ames died that same year in a boating accident on Squam Lake, New Hampshire.

source: Physics Today