Helen Sawyer Hogg

Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC ( born August 1, 1905 in Lowell (Massachusetts ), † 28 January 1993 at Richmond Hill, Ontario) was a Canadian astronomer who was known by an existing 1951-1981 astronomical column.

She studied chemistry and graduated in 1926 at Mount Holyoke College. Then she went at the invitation of Annie Jump Cannon at Harvard College Observatory. There she worked with Harlow Shapley on star clusters, and published several essays. She received in 1928 a master's degree in astronomy and in 1931 received his doctorate from Radcliffe College.

Your fellow students, the astronomer Frank Scott Hogg, she married in 1930, with him she had three children. In 1931 the couple moved to Victoria in Canada, where Hogg worked at the observatory. In 1935 she moved to Ontario, where her husband did research at the University of Toronto and she also got a job at the David Dunlap Observatory. Frank Hogg was from 1946 until his death in 1951 director of the observatory. 1957 Helen Hogg was awarded a full professorship and retired in 1976 at the University of Toronto.

Over six decades, she published numerous papers and has become one of the leading observational astronomers. After the death of her husband she took over the column With the Stars in the Toronto Star magazine, she wrote thirty years.

In 1985, she married again, Emeritus English professor Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley (* 1905, † 1988). She died in 1993 of a heart attack.

She won the Annie Jump Cannon Prize for Astronomy in 1949 and she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976 and elevated to the Companion Klumpke - Roberts Award 1983. 1968. In 1981 she was awarded the Saint Mary's University Halifax honorary doctorate. On 20 May 2004, she was included at the suggestion of John Percy at the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. She was President of the Canadian Astronomical Society.

The asteroid ( 2917 ) Sawyer Hogg is named after her.