Maria Mitchell

America's first professional female astronomer

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

i luv this🐱☄️💥🌞🌑 ✨

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

My sources
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[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

DYK I attended Elizabeth Gardener’s small school and North Grammar school and my dad was the school principal.

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

DYK I was a professor of astronomy at Vassar College in New York and quickly became a well respected educator

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

DYK a decade after I discovered the comet I travelled to Europe and studied abroad

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

Here's a pic of me, discovering the very first comet!!! Oooo oooo i love this dress and hair style, I totally rock it 💓

[Albert Einstein @AlbertEmc4sides]

Good day

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@dorthyvaughann

[Dorothy Vaughan @dorthyvaughann]

i believe fully in equality and despite discrimination i was of the few african american women who worked at nasa and guess what-i rocked it

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@CarlSeggy

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

DYK i am involved in the anti salary moment and refuses to wear cotton grown by slaves in the South. I'm a strong believer in equality

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@JohannesKeple_r

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@urhiddenfigure @AryabhataTheGuy oooooooo buurrrrnnn🔥

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

astronomers love me soooo much they honored me by naming a crater of the moon for me💁🏻 #bejealous #astrotweets #ScientistsKnowBest

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@mariamitch101 in 1994, I was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

I am elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at New York University in 1905

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

@mariamitch101 once I discovered it I was awarded a gold medal by Frederick VI, king of Denmark. 🤓🏅🏅

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

#DidYouKnow the comet I discovered in 1847 is named after me known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet."

[Maria Mitchell @mariamitch101]

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” –Maria Mitchell

[Albert Einstein @AlbertEmc4sides]

E=mc^2