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The ACS Bio states that "Professor Mittag-Leffler of the Swedish Academy of Sciences sent her a letter in 1925, declaring his intent to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year for her role..." [my emphasis]
The claim that he "considered" her and that Shapley claimed 'interpretating' her results is supported by a non-English-language citation. (I.E. I can't read it.) This question deserves resolving. I've added '1926' to the awards section but found no further resolution.
It further occurs to me that Shapley may have made the post-mortem claim in hopes that Harvard would reap a Nobel. Excuseable, perhaps.
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I'm not sure about this. The main reason she was not operating the telescope is that the Cepheids she was most interested in were in the Magellanic Clouds, which are southern hemisphere objects. I.e. she was in the US and the telescope was in Chile.
There is also the fact that there are examples of earlier women astronomers who did operate telescopes, Caroline Herschel for example.
She deserves much more exposure. I'm happy someone took the time to create the entry for her. But I'd like to see a better reference, and perhaps more detail for the "women were not allowed to operate telescopes" quote. J8h ( talk) 20:03, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Glad you were able to locate a source for that. I think Johnson's book is quite good overall. MarmadukePercy ( talk) 09:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
I replaced an Unreliable source? tag (inserted by Special:Contributions/38.88.230.162) with a Dubious tag. Quoting the anonymous editor, "A simple web search leads to several source's[sic], some cited back to first hand accounts contradicting the statement in question. It is an un-cited generalization implying women were simply a.) banned b.) not just at Harvard, but (presumptively implying) everywhere as well, and c.) without any exceptions from operating telescopes, when the apparent reality is the culture around Harvard saw it as (rougly ranging from unsightly to inappropriate) for a women to work w..." The cited source (Exploratorium) does back up the claim, stating "In the early 1900s, women were not allowed to operate telescopes," and it's a reliable source. However, the Exploratorium page is a one-paragraph summary of HSL's work, and it lacks nuance and detail. Dgorsline ( talk) 12:51, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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To editor Ian (Wiki Ed): Would you mind, please, to explain why you feel those two edits you made were copyvio fixes? And if they are copyvios, why not just fix them (put them in your own words, etc.) rather than remove them from this "Natural sciences good article"? It's just that I find it rather profound that this article made it to GA status while it contained copyvios. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 00:56, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm bothered by the following quotation in the "Influence" secxtion, which (a) is more about Hubble than Leavitt, (b) strikes me as a put-down of Leavitt's work and (c) is purely subjective. I've removed it to here. If it belongs anywhere (which I doubt) it belongs with Hubble.
Zaslav ( talk) 04:06, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
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In the third paragraph under Biography - Early years and education, I added a clarification needed template after the sentence "However, invented the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs for her in 1898." The reason for this is that it is unclear who invented the title. I considered simply changing the sentence to "However, the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs was invented for her in 1898" to remove the need for a "who", but decided to add the clarification template instead in the hopes someone will know who invented the title.
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Dbusb ( talk) 19:11, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Your statement " Such techniques can only be used for measuring distances up to hundreds of light years" is wrong. Parallax is not applicable for distances of "hundreds of light years".
Arydberg ( talk) 02:14, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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The ACS Bio states that "Professor Mittag-Leffler of the Swedish Academy of Sciences sent her a letter in 1925, declaring his intent to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year for her role..." [my emphasis]
The claim that he "considered" her and that Shapley claimed 'interpretating' her results is supported by a non-English-language citation. (I.E. I can't read it.) This question deserves resolving. I've added '1926' to the awards section but found no further resolution.
It further occurs to me that Shapley may have made the post-mortem claim in hopes that Harvard would reap a Nobel. Excuseable, perhaps.
Twang (
talk)
08:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure about this. The main reason she was not operating the telescope is that the Cepheids she was most interested in were in the Magellanic Clouds, which are southern hemisphere objects. I.e. she was in the US and the telescope was in Chile.
There is also the fact that there are examples of earlier women astronomers who did operate telescopes, Caroline Herschel for example.
She deserves much more exposure. I'm happy someone took the time to create the entry for her. But I'd like to see a better reference, and perhaps more detail for the "women were not allowed to operate telescopes" quote. J8h ( talk) 20:03, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Glad you were able to locate a source for that. I think Johnson's book is quite good overall. MarmadukePercy ( talk) 09:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
I replaced an Unreliable source? tag (inserted by Special:Contributions/38.88.230.162) with a Dubious tag. Quoting the anonymous editor, "A simple web search leads to several source's[sic], some cited back to first hand accounts contradicting the statement in question. It is an un-cited generalization implying women were simply a.) banned b.) not just at Harvard, but (presumptively implying) everywhere as well, and c.) without any exceptions from operating telescopes, when the apparent reality is the culture around Harvard saw it as (rougly ranging from unsightly to inappropriate) for a women to work w..." The cited source (Exploratorium) does back up the claim, stating "In the early 1900s, women were not allowed to operate telescopes," and it's a reliable source. However, the Exploratorium page is a one-paragraph summary of HSL's work, and it lacks nuance and detail. Dgorsline ( talk) 12:51, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
This is a newly created cat by 28bytes on 17 February 2011. — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX ) 06:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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To editor Ian (Wiki Ed): Would you mind, please, to explain why you feel those two edits you made were copyvio fixes? And if they are copyvios, why not just fix them (put them in your own words, etc.) rather than remove them from this "Natural sciences good article"? It's just that I find it rather profound that this article made it to GA status while it contained copyvios. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 00:56, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm bothered by the following quotation in the "Influence" secxtion, which (a) is more about Hubble than Leavitt, (b) strikes me as a put-down of Leavitt's work and (c) is purely subjective. I've removed it to here. If it belongs anywhere (which I doubt) it belongs with Hubble.
Zaslav ( talk) 04:06, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
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In the third paragraph under Biography - Early years and education, I added a clarification needed template after the sentence "However, invented the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs for her in 1898." The reason for this is that it is unclear who invented the title. I considered simply changing the sentence to "However, the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs was invented for her in 1898" to remove the need for a "who", but decided to add the clarification template instead in the hopes someone will know who invented the title.
Thanks,
Dbusb ( talk) 19:11, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Your statement " Such techniques can only be used for measuring distances up to hundreds of light years" is wrong. Parallax is not applicable for distances of "hundreds of light years".
Arydberg ( talk) 02:14, 23 October 2021 (UTC)