Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1952)

Antonia Maury

American astronomer (1866–1952)

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…