Margaret Mayall
| Margaret Mayall | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 27, 1902 Iron Hill, Maryland |
| Died | December 6, 1995 (aged 93) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | astronomy |
Margaret Walton Mayall (January 27, 1902 – December 6, 1995) was an American astronomer.
Mayall worked under Annie Jump Cannon as a Harvard Computer. She focused on photometry and spectral classes of viable stars and published some twenty papers on the subjects. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers from 1949 to 1973. In 1958 she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy. Her husband was Newton Mayall.
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