Fiammetta Wilson

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Fiammetta Wilson

Fiammetta Wilson (born Worthington; born July 19, 1864 in Lowestoft , Suffolk ; † July 21, 1920 ) was an English astronomer .

Life and accomplishments

Fiammetta Wilson was born on July 19, 1864, the eldest daughter of Doctor FS Worthington and Helen, née Till, in Lowestoft , Suffolk . Her father encouraged her to study science. She also had a talent for languages ​​and spent four years of her schooling in Lausanne and one year in Germany . After a few years back home, she began taking music lessons in Italy .

Her interest in astronomy was sparked by lectures given by Alfred Fowler in 1910 , and on February 23 of the same year she joined the British Astronomical Association (BAA). There she mainly worked on the observation of meteors together with William Frederick Denning and Alice Grace Cook . From 1916 to 1919 they were together interim director of the meteor section of the BAA for the absent Martin Davidson (1880-1968). From 1919 until her death in 1920 she was director of the section.

On January 14, 1916, she was accepted into the Royal Astronomical Society as one of the first four women, along with Ella K. Church , Mary Adela Blagg and Alice Grace Cook , and six more women followed in the same year. Since 1919 she was also a member of the Leeds Astronomical Society. She was also a member of the Société Astronomique de France and the Société d'Astronomie d'Anvers. Due to her death in 1920, she was no longer informed about the Edward C. Pickering Scholarship at the Harvard College Observatory , which had been awarded to her for 1920/21 .

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literature

  • Alice Grace Cook: Mrs. Fiammetta Wilson . Obituaries. In: Journal of the British Astronomical Association . Volume 30, 1920, pp. 330–331 , bibcode : 1920JBAA ... 30..330. (English).
  • Alice Grace Cook: Mrs. Fiammetta Wilson . Obituary. In: The Observatory . Volume 43, 1920, pp. 334–335 , bibcode : 1920Obs .... 43..330. (English).
  • WFD: Mrs. Fiammetta Wilson . Obituary notices. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . Volume 81, Issue 4, 1921, pp. 266–269 , doi : 10.1093 / mnras / 81.4.261a , bibcode : 1921MNRAS..81R.266. (English).
  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie : Wilson, Fiammetta Worthington . In: Women in Science . Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography. Fourth printing edition. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-262-15031-X , pp. 176-177 (English).
  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey: Wilson, Fiammetta Worthington . In: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science . Pioneering Lives from the Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Volume 2 (L-Z). Routledge, New York and London 2000, ISBN 0-415-92040-X , pp. 1385 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. 100 years and counting: women in the RAS go from strength to strength. In: Royal Astronomical Society. January 14, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .

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