Maria Mitchell: Quick Facts


Facts

Born August 1, 1818 • Nantucket • Massachusetts
Died June 28, 1889 (aged 70) • Lynn • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1905)
Subjects Of Study comet • orbital • sunspot

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Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Robert Endre Tarjan
American computer scientist
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Fred L. Whipple
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George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
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Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer
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Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
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David H. Levy
Canadian astronomer and science writer
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Seth Barnes Nicholson
American astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
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Robert A. Dahl
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Robert D. Putnam
Robert D. Putnam
American political scientist
Cowinner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros
Victor Ambros
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Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Chinese American computer scientist
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Peter Agre
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Robert W Floyd
American computer scientist
Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen
American computer scientist
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Juris Hartmanis
American mathematician and computer scientist