Hannah Steele Pettit

Hannah Steele Pettit
Born
Hannah Bard Steele

(1886-11-06)November 6, 1886
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
DiedSeptember 10, 1961(1961-09-10) (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSwarthmore College University of Chicago
Known forPublishing images on the corona of the solar eclipse
SpouseEdison Pettit
Children
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsYorkes Observatory Mount Wilson Observatory
Thesis Proper Motions and Parallaxes of 359 Stars in the Cluster h Persei

Hannah Steele Pettit (November 6, 1886 – September 10, 1961), also known as Hannah Bard Steele Pettit, was an American astronomer who spent a notable amount of her career working as an assistant at the Yerkes Observatory, where she and her husband Edison Pettit jointly published photographs on the corona of a solar eclipse.[1]

  1. ^ Nicholson, Seth B. (1962). "EDISON Pettit, 1889-1962". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 74 (441): 495–498. Bibcode:1962PASP...74..495N. doi:10.1086/127863. JSTOR 40676913.