Maria Mitchell

Woman in astronomy
Born Augest 1, 1818
Died June 28, 1889
American
Proud graduate of Vassas College
Librarian
Naturalist
University Eduicator

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@mrdrewsscience

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@alphaike6 Good for you for doing your own thing!!

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@alphaike6 Congrats on graduating from Trinity College!🎉

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@SubrahmanyanC14 This is a great quote, and I love the picture you used to represent it! Thanks for the advice😊

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@SubrahmanyanC14 Congrats! Good luck at the University of Chicago!

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

@SubrahmanyanC14 I completely agree that science is where you find what pleases you!

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @SubrahmanyanC14]

“Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”
#deep

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On the moon, a crater was named “Mitchell” to commemorate my importance in the field of astronomy.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

After my death, I was made a part of the U.S. National Women’s Hall of Fame.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

To protest against slavery, I stopped wearing clothes made of cotton, and I made friends with other fellow suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

My work, along with many of my students work, was published in the Silliman’s Journal, a top scientific journal, established by Benjamin Silliman in 1818 at Yale.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

I used my own apparatus to photograph both the sun and the stars. I preserved plates of these photographs in one of the observatory’s closets.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

Two of my favorite planets were Jupiter and Saturn and during my years in Vassar College. I continued my research about the surface of these planets and also photographed the stars.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

When I worked for the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office, I calculated tables for the positions of the planet Venus.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

When the school founded by my father was closed, I attended Cyrus Peirce’s school for young ladies. This is where I later worked as a teaching assistant for Cyrus Peirce, which gave me the experience to later open my own school.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

My earliest years in school were spent at Elizabeth Gardener’s small school. After that, I attended North Grammar school, where my father was the school principal.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

I was a distant relative of Benjamin Franklin!

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

When I started my love for astronomy, I was able to calculate the exact moment of a Annuler Eclipes with my father in 1830.

[Maria Mitchell @MariaMi23902404]

I gave an important speech during the nation’s centennial year in 1876 entitled “The Need for Women in Science.”