Charlotte Moore Sitterly

Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly (* September 24 1898 in Ercildoun, Pennsylvania; † 3 March 1990) was an American astronomer.

Life

Charlotte Moore received her degree in mathematics in 1920 from Swarthmore College and was then assistant to Henry Norris Russell at Princeton University in New Jersey. End of the 20s, she moved to Mount Wilson Observatory, where he was assistant to Harold D. Babcock. Here she was busy with work on the solar spectrum.

On the basis of this work it was in 1931 received his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. Then she married physics professor Bancroft W. Sitterly.

From 1945 she worked for the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS) and the Naval Research Laboratory to continue in the field of solar research. The information collected by her at the NBS tables of atomic energy levels and spectroscopic data were of great importance for spectroscopy in astronomy and other fields.

In 1937 she was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in 1990 for her lifetime achievements, the Bruce Medal. In her honor received the asteroid 2110 the name Moore - Sitterly.

Writings

  • Atomic lines in the sun -spot spectrum, Princeton University Press, 1933
  • Atomic energy levels as derived from the Analyses of optical spectra (3 volumes ), U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC 1949-1958
  • Jean W. Gallagher ( ed.): Tables of spectra of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atom and ion, CRC Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8493-7420-0
  • Astronomer ( 20th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1898
  • Died in 1990
  • Woman
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