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Antonia Maury

Antonia Maury
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Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary. She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International Astronomical Union.

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  1. Alfred WernerDecember 12, 1866 – November 15, 1919
  2. Antonia Maury (this page)March 21, 1866 – January 1952
  3. Charles NicolleSeptember 21, 1866 – February 28, 1936
  4. Joel Hastings MetcalfJanuary 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925
  5. Kazimierz TwardowskiOctober 20, 1866 – February 11, 1938
  6. Thomas Hunt MorganSeptember 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945

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