Ida E. Woods Explained

Ida E. Woods
Birth Name:Ida Elizabeth Woods
Birth Date:16 September 1870
Birth Place:Natick, Massachusetts
Death Place:Natick, Massachusetts
Nationality:American
Field:Astronomy

Ida E. Woods (September 16, 1870 – October 4, 1940) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory.

Early life

Ida Elizabeth Woods was born in Natick, Massachusetts, the daughter of Oliver Powers Woods and Martha Wright Woods. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893.[1] [2]

Career

Woods began working As a human computer at Harvard College Observatory immediately after graduating from college in 1893,[3] where she worked alongside Harlow Shapley and Annie Jump Cannon. She studied photographic plates to discover dozens of variable stars during her career.[4] [5] [6] She attended the meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) in 1916, when it was held at Harvard.[7]

Publications by Woods included "Light Curve and Orbit of a New Eclipsing Binary H. V. 3622" (1922),[8] "Fifty New Variable Stars in the Southern Milky Way" (1926),[9] "The Southern Station of the Harvard Observatory" (1927),[10] and "Forty New Variable Stars in Sagitarrius" (1928).[11] Woods held the Sarah F. Whitin Fellowship from Wellesley College in 1912, to fund her research at Harvard.[12] [13] She was a member of the Sagamore Sociological Conference.[14]

Personal life

Woods died in 1940, at her home in Natick. She was 70 years old.[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Miss Ida E. Woods. October 6, 1940. The New York Times. 51. ProQuest.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Fq9GAQAAMAAJ&dq=Ida+Woods+Natick&pg=PA94 "Degrees Conferred in 1893"
  3. https://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1010&context=mag "Alumnae Notes"
  4. Bailey. Solon. 1922. Photographic Work at Arequipa with the Bruce 24-Inch Refractor. N.G.C. 3201.. Harvard College Observatory Circular. 234. 1–3. 1922HarCi.234....1B.
  5. Book: Bailey, Solon I. (Solon Irving). The history and work of Harvard observatory, 1839 to 1927; an outline of the origin, development, and researches of the Astronomical observatory of Harvard college together with brief biographies of its leading members. 1931. New York, London, Pub. for the Observatory by the McGraw-Hill book company, inc.. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. 188.
  6. News: Women Discover New Star. December 21, 1919. The Boston Globe. June 11, 2019. 33. Newspapers.com.
  7. 1916. The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Popular Astronomy. 25. 69.
  8. Book: Light Curve and Orbit of a New Eclipsing Binary H. V. 3622. Woods. Ida E.. Shapley. Martha B.. Martha Betz Shapley. Harvard College Observatory Circular. 1922. 186.
  9. Woods. I. E.. April 1926. Fifty New Variable Stars in the Southern Milky Way. Harvard College Observatory Bulletin. 834. 14. 1926BHarO.834...14W.
  10. Woods, Ida E. "The Southern Station of the Harvard Observatory" Harvard College Observatory Bulletin (October 1927): 1.
  11. Ida E. Woods, "Forty New Variable Stars in Sagittarius" Harvard College Observatory Bulletin (February 1928): 22.
  12. News: Going to Harvard. June 6, 1912. The Boston Globe. June 12, 2019. 12. Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Wellesley College. Annual Reports of President and Treasurer. 1915. 13. en.
  14. Book: Sagamore Sociological Conference, Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts. 1907. 96. en.
  15. News: Miss Ida E. Woods Dead in Natick. October 5, 1940. The Boston Globe. June 11, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.