Leah Allen
Leah Brown Allen was an American astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Hood College.
She joined Lick Observatory as Carnegie Assistant in 1908.[1] Professor Allen began teaching astronomy at Hood in 1928.[2]
Education
- Hope Street School, 1902
- Brown University, 1904–1906, special work in astronomy under Professor Winslow Upton [1]
- Wellesley College, M.A. 1912 [3]
Prizes named in her honor
- Leah B. Allen Award for Excellence in Math and Science, Hood College
- Leah B. Allen Prize in Astronomy, Hood College
Correspondents
- Annie Jump Cannon [4]
- William F. Meggers [5]
Memberships
- American Astronomical Society [6]
- AAVSO, Charter Member [7]
Publications
- "A study of the peculiar spectrum of the star Eta Centauri" (Master's thesis, 1912) is held in the Wellesley College Archives.
- The radial velocities of twenty southern variable stars of class Me ; A study of the changes in the spectrum of T Centauri (Lick Observatory bulletin) University of California Press (1925) WorldCat
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mary Proctor."Halley's Comet after 75 years rushes Earthward again", San Francisco Call, August 23, 1908.
- ↑ http://www.hood.edu/adminservices/news.cfm?featureID=2031
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/reportofpresiden3202well/reportofpresiden3202well_djvu.txt
- ↑ http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990023.html
- ↑ http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990074.html
- ↑ The Fifty-seventh Meeting of the AAS was held at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, from Monday to Wednesday, December 28–30, 1936 at the invitation of Leah B. Allen, Professor of Astronomy. http://www.aas.org/had/aashistory/7bmtg02c.html
- ↑ Dorrit Hoffleit "The Maria Mitchell Observatory:For Astronomical Research and Public Enlightenment"JAAVSO Volume30, 2001, p70" http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/v30n1/62.pdf