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Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1949 to 1973.[1]

Margaret Mayall
Born	January 27, 1902 Iron Hill, Maryland, US
Died	December 6, 1995(1995-12-06) (aged 93) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Nationality	American
Education	Swarthmore College
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Radcliffe College (M.A.)
Scientific career
Fields	astronomy

Mayall (born Margaret Lyle Walton) was born in Iron Hill, Maryland, on 27 January 1902.[1] She attended the University of Delaware, where her interest in astronomy grew after taking math and chemistry courses.[2] She then moved to Swarthmore College, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics in 1924.[3]

She earned an MA in Astronomy from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1928 and worked as a research assistant and astronomer at Harvard College Observatory from 1924 to 1954, initially working with Annie Jump Cannon on classifying star spectra and estimating star brightness.[3] She was a research staff member at the Heat Research Laboratory, Special Weapons Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1943 to 1946.[4]

While working in Nantucket, she met Robert Newton Mayall, a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). They married in 1927.[1]

In 1958 she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.[1]

She died of congestive heart failure in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 6 December 1995.[1]

References

Further reading

• Williams, Thomas R.; Saladyga, Michael (2011). Advancing Variable Star Astronomy: The Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49634-6.

External links

• Letters at the AAVSO
• Oral history from the American Institute of Physics
• The Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials

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Margaret Walton Mayall (née Lyle Walton le 27 janvier 1902 à Iron Hill (Maryland) et morte le 6 décembre 1995 à Cambridge (Massachusetts)) est une astronome américaine[1].

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