Antoinette de Vaucouleurs

Antoinette de Vaucouleurs
Born
Antoinette Piétra

(1921-11-14)November 14, 1921
Paris, France
DiedAugust 27, 1987(1987-08-27) (aged 65)
Alma materSorbonne
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin

Antoinette de Vaucouleurs (November 14, 1921, Paris, France-August 29, 1987, Austin, Texas, USA) was an astronomer who worked in the Astronomy Department of the University of Texas at Austin for 25 years (1961-1986) when few women worked in the field.[1][2] In addition to ongoing collaborations with her husband,[3] Gérard de Vaucouleurs, she carried out her own research in spectroscopy. Her contributions (and Gérard's) were recognized in a festschrift in 1988, entitled The World of Galaxies.[4][5]

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  3. ^ Roy, Jean-René (12 October 2017). Unveiling Galaxies: The Role of Images in Astronomical Discovery. Cambridge University Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-108-26806-6. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ Graham, Alister; Kenyon, Katherine; Bull, Lochlan; Lokuge Don, Visura; Kuhlmann, Kazuki (31 March 2021). "History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969)". Galaxies. 9 (2): 24. arXiv:2104.00901. Bibcode:2021Galax...9...24G. doi:10.3390/galaxies9020024.
  5. ^ Corwin, Harold G.; Bottinelli, Lucette (6 December 2012). The World of Galaxies: Proceedings of the Conference "Le Monde des Galaxies" Held 12–14 April 1988 at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris in Honor of Gérard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4613-9356-6. Retrieved 22 February 2022.