Florence Shirley Patterson Jones
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Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's Degrees
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Astrophysics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Florence Shirley Patterson Jones was a Canadian-born American astronomer. Early life Florence Shirley Patterson was born in Newmarket, Ontario, the daughter of William and Florence Patterson. She earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto in 1935. The following year she worked on a project at David Dunlap Observatory, and earned a master's degree at Toronto with her astronomy thesis, titled ""Stellar wavelengths from spectrographs of small dispersions." In 1938 she moved to Massachusetts and worked at the Harvard College Observatory, under advisors Harlow Shapley and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She received funding from the Royal Society of Canada in 1939, and from a Pickering Fellowship in 1940. Patterson completed her doctoral work in astronomy at Radcliffe College in 1941, with a dissertation titled "Surface photometry of external galaxies." Her dissertation won the Caroline Wilby Prize for "best original work in any department" at Radcliffe in 1941.
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