Member, American Astronomical Society Member, IAU Commission 28 on Nebulae and Star Clusters
Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932)[1] was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog.[2] Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. She was a contemporary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her closest friend at the observatory.[3]
Ames died in a boating accident in 1932, the same year the Shapley-Ames catalog was published.[4] She was interred at the Arlington National Cemetery.[5]
^Bracher, Katherine (2014). "Ames, Adelaide". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard A.; II, Jordan D. Marché; Palmeri, JoAnn; Green, Daniel W. E. (eds.). Adelaide Ames. Springer New York. p. 68. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9217. ISBN 9781441999160.
^Research Astronomer Lost by Drowning. In: Popular astronomy, Vol. 40, August/September 1932, S. 448–449. (online)
^Barbara L. Welther: Adelaide Ames and the Shapley-Ames Catalogue. (Abstract) In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. Vol. 22, 1990, S. 841. (online)
^Vera C. Rubin (1997). Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters. Springer. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-56396-231-8.
^Department of Veteran Affairs Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine shows "AMES, ADELAIDE, D/O THALES L DATE OF DEATH: 06/26/1932 BURIED AT: SECTION EAST SITE 3488 C L ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY". It is a flat marker in front of her parents' tombstone, easily missed.
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