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Antonia Caeana de Paiva Pereira Maury

1866 - 1952

Personal Information

Born: 1866

Died: 1952

Professional Life

American astronomer who was the 1st to detect & calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary; her system of stellar classification was adopted by the International Astronomical Union as being more detailed than the system developed by Williamina Fleming & Annie Jump Cannon.