Martha Betz Shapley

ISNI: 0000 0005 1344 2745
Born: August 3, 1890, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Died: January 24, 1981, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Known as the “first lady of Harvard College Observatory” during the directorship of her husband, Harlow Shapley (0000 0001 1027 0109), Martha Shapley (nee Betz) was an authority on eclipsing binaries in her own right and an accomplished mathematician.

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Keywords: eclipsing binary stars, computational astronomy, history of astronomy, Harvard College Observatory, women astronomical computers