Beth Willman

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Beth Willman is an American astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Working with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, she and her team have discovered two Milky Way satellites so far, SDSSJ1049+5103 (known commonly as "Willman 1") and UMa dSph.

Willman earned her PhD at the University of Washington in 2003. She earned her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics at Columbia University. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Willman has recently accepted a faculty position at Haverford College, and will be starting there in the Fall of 2008.[1]

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  1. ^ Astrophysicist Beth Willman to join Haverford Physics & Astronomy. News Room. Haverford College. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
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