Maud Worcester Makemson

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PhD Astronomy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Maud Worcester Makemson was an American astronomer, a specialist on archaeoastronomy, and director of Vassar Observatory. Early life and education Maud Lavon Worcester was born in 1891 in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. She attended Girls' Latin School in Boston. She briefly attended Radcliffe College, but left to teach school. In 1911, her family moved to Pasadena, California. She was working as a journalist in Bisbee, Arizona when she took an interest in astronomy. She returned to California and taught school while taking correspondence courses and summer classes to qualify for admission to the University of California. She earned a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1925, followed by a PhD from University of California at Berkeley in 1930. Her doctoral work involved calculating the orbits of asteroids.

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Maud Worcester Makemson's Published Works

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Introduction To Astrodynamics (1960) (84)
The Morning Star Rises: An Account of Polynesian Astronomy (1943) (26)
HAWAIIAN ASTRONOMICAL CONCEPTS II (1938) (11)
The book of the Jaguar Priest : a translation of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin, with commentary (1952) (4)
Book Reviews: The Astronomical Tables of the Maya (1944) (4)
The Maya correlation problem (1946) (3)
Concerning the identification of comet Skjellerup-Maristany (3)
Locating the epicenter of an earthquake (1927) (2)
The Book of the Jaguar Priest, a translation of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin, with commentary (1951) (2)
CAROLINE ELLEN FURNESS (1936) (1)
THE MAYA CALENDAR (1947) (1)
Christian Maya Prophecies from the Tizimin Manuscript (1948) (1)
Notes and observations. Two orbits of 99 Herculis. (1958) (1)
The miscellaneous dates of the Dresden codex (1957) (1)
RUSSELL TRACY CRAWFORD, 1876-1958 (1959) (1)
The multiple system of zeta CANCRI (1933) (1)
Determination of selenographic positions (1971) (1)
Astronomy in Primitive Religion (1954) (1)
An Introduction to Astrodynamics (2nd edition) and Astrodynamics: Applications and Advanced Topics (1968) (1)
World of the Maya (1961) (0)
Minor Planet 1937 LF (1938) (0)
A Tribute to Copernicus (1943) (0)
The Katun Calendar of the Book of Tizimin (1950) (0)
XIIth International Astronautical Congress, Washington, D.C., 1961 = XII. Internationaler Astronautischer Kongress = XIIe Congres International D'Astronautique : proceedings (1963) (0)
Elements of minor planet Y. O. 26 [1928DJ]=(841) Arabella (0)
Ephemeris Time and Universal Time (1963) (0)
Perturbations of Minor Planet 1312 Vassar (1937) (0)
Investigation of the orbit, mass and parallax of 99 Herculis (0)
THE PROPER MOTION OF PLANETARY NEBULA N. G. C. 7662 (1928) (0)
Sulaiman's theory and the period-eccentricity relation in binary orbits (1935) (0)
Improved Orbit of 1401 [1935 UD] (1937) (0)
Elements and Ephemeris of 784 Pickeringia. (1933) (0)
The orbit of Comet f1927 (Gale) with special reference to the question of double solutions (0)
Elements and ephemeris of 1933 OT [(1312) Vassar] (1934) (0)
Elements and ephemerides of minor planet 1935 OM (1937) (0)
Elements and ephemerides of minor planet 1929, AE (1933) (0)
Elements and ephemerides of minor planet 1932 DB 1(1310) Villigeral (1934) (0)
MIDDLE AMERICA: Concepts and Structures of Maya Calendrical Arithmetics. Linton Satterthwaite, Jr (1949) (0)

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