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Project Gutenberg on Nostr: American physicist and astronomer Sarah Frances Whiting died #OTD in 1927. She was ...

American physicist and astronomer Sarah Frances Whiting died #OTD in 1927.

She was one of the founders and the first director of the Whitin Observatory at Wellesley College. Sarah Whiting established the first such program of Astronomy in laboratory instruction for women in the United States at Wellesley College, and devoted her career to innovative teaching of astronomical principles and techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Frances_Whiting

#astronomy #science #womeninSTEM

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