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- Born
- 11 September 1847
- Died
- 20 January 1921
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Maria Mitchell
- Eulogy on Matthew Vassar
- Life and work of Maria Mitchell, L.L.D
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Mary Watson Whitney - The Linda Hall
Mary Watson Whitney, an American astronomer, was born Sep. 11, 1847. Mary was very bright and well educated as a child, and she had the extreme good fortune to graduate from high school in 1863, when Matthew Vassar was in the process of founding Vassar College for women in Poughkeepsie, New York...
lindahall.org →Mary Watson Whitney, an American astronomer, was born Sep. 11, 1847. Mary was very bright and well educated as a child, and she had the extreme good fortune to graduate from high school in 1863, when Matthew Vassar was in the process of founding Vassar College for women in Poughkeepsie, New York... If the first and the third photographs above look familiar, we included them in this space on Aug. 1, 2017, when we celebrated the birthday of Maria Mitchell . Today, it is Mary Watson Whitney’s turn, which would have pleased Maria Mitchell no end.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mary
- Family name
- Watson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Waltham
- Place of death
- Waltham
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- University of Zurich
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- Mary Watson Whitney.jpg
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- Mary Watson Whitney
- date of birth
- 1847-09-11
- date of death
- 1921-01-20
- influenced by
- Maria Mitchell
- student
- Caroline Furness
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