Edith Jones Woodward
American astronomer and college professor
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Edith Jones Woodward's Degrees
- Masters Physics Princeton University
- Bachelors Physics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edith Jones Woodward was an American astronomer and college professor. She did research on binary stars, and taught at William Paterson College in New Jersey for over twenty years. Early life Edith Jones was born in Waldron, Indiana, the daughter of James Raymond Jones and Mary "Madge" Yeager Jones. She attended Purdue University, earning a bachelor's of science in 1935. She won the Flora Roberts Medal as "outstanding senior woman" in her class at Purdue. She earned a PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 1941, where she held a Pickering Fellowship in 1936 and worked with Harlow Shapley and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
Edith Jones Woodward's Published Works
Published Works
- Analyses of new light curve of AW Ursae Majoris. (1980) (10)
- AK Herculis — An atypical W UMa-type system (1977) (8)
- U, B, V light curves of CO Lacertae (1983) (4)
- Three W Ursae Majoris-type binaries with changing periods. (1951) (3)
- A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE SUPERGIANT CLOSE BINARY, V453 SCORPII. (1975) (3)
- U, B, V LIGHT CURVES OF V356 SAGITTARII (1995) (2)
- Apsidal rotation in the eclipsing binary AG Persei (1987) (2)
- A study of the eclipsing binary U Pegasi, BD +15'4915 (1945) (1)
- Old and new observations of V523 Saggitarii (1989) (1)
- Analyses of photoelectric light curves of YY Sagittarii (1992) (1)
- Photographic measures of several interesting W Ursae Majoris type eclipsing binaries (1946) (1)
- HD 163868, a New Bright Southern Variable (1975) (0)
- Note on the Periods of Twenty Eclipsing Binaries (1943) (0)
- A study of four W Ursae Majoris stars (1942) (0)
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