Janet Akyüz Mattei
Janet Akyüz Mattei (born January 2, 1943 in Bodrum , Muğla Province , † March 22, 2004 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a Turkish-American astronomer and director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO).
Life
She was born in Turkey to a Jewish family and educated at the American Collegiate Institute in Izmir . For her university studies she came to the United States and attended Brandeis University in Waltham for a Vienna scholarship. She was later offered a job by Dorrit Hoffleit at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket .
From 1970 to 1972 Akyüz worked at the McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville and received her Masters of Arts in Astronomy from the University of Virginia in 1972 and her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Aegean University in Izmir 1982.
As chairman of AAVSO for more than 20 years, Akyüz has collected observations of various variable stars from amateur astronomers all over the world. She coordinated numerous important observation programs between amateur observers and professionals.
Akyüz has won numerous awards, including the Société astronomique de France's Medal of the Century in 1987 , the George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 1993 and the Leslie Peltier Prize of the Astronomical League, and in 1995 the first Giovanni Battista Lacchini Prize for collaboration with amateur astronomers Unione Astrofili Italiani and the Jackson Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . The asteroid 11695 Mattei is named after Janet Akyüz.
She died of leukemia in Boston.
swell
- Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer, Dies at 61st The New York Times , April 2, 2004, accessed January 16, 2014 .
- AAVSO website biography of Mattei
- Williams, Thomas R .; Willson, Lee Anne: Obituary: Janet Akyüz Mattei, 1943-2004 , Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 1681-1682, bibcode : 2004BAAS ... 36.1681W
Web links
- JA Mattei publications in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for JA Mattei in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mattei, Janet Akyüz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Akyüz, Janet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bodrum , Turkey |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 2004 |
| Place of death | Boston , United States |