Mary R. Calvert
| Mary R. Calvert | |
|---|---|
 Mary R. Calvert's 1927 passport photo | |
| Born |
June 20, 1884 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died |
June 25, 1974 (aged 90) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Astronomer and astrophotographer |
| Institutions | Yerkes Observatory |
| Known for | Atlas of the Northern Milky Way and A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way |
Mary Ross Calvert (June 20, 1884[1] – June 25, 1974[2]) was an American astronomical computer and astrophotographer.
In 1905, she started work at Yerkes Observatory, as assistant and computer for her uncle, the astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923), who was also professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, and the discoverer of Barnard's star.
In 1923, when Barnard died, she became curator of the Yerkes photographic plate collection and a high-level assistant, until her retirement in 1946.
Barnard’s work A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was completed after his death in 1923 by Edwin B. Frost, director of the Yerkes Observatory, and Calvert, and published in 1927. The Astronomy Compendium calls it a "seminal work".[3]
She died in Nashville in 1974.
Publications
- Atlas of the Northern Milky Way (with Frank Elmore Ross), University of Chicago Press (1934)
References
External links
- Images of her 1938 US passport
- 'A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way' online
- SSDI