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# John William Draper Maury who became a doctor
# John William Draper Maury who became a doctor
# Antonia Coetana de Pravia Pereia Maury
# Antonia Coetana [aka Caetana] de Pravia Pereia Maury
# Carlotta Jaquina Maury (<b>gained prominence as a palentologist</b>)
# Carlota [aka Carlotta] Jaquina Maury (gained prominence in [[palentology]] -- [http://william-morris.net/Carlota_Joaquina_Maury/ ]-"Carlota Jaquina Maury - American Palentologist" website.)


Antonia Maury was the granddaughter of [[John William Draper]] and niece of [[Henry Draper]], both pioneering astronomers. The Draper and Maury families are related to one another several times over along with the Fontaine/Minor families and allied kin as Matthew Fontaine Maury's wife was Diana Minor, daughter of General John Minor, who also has prominent and extensive families -- as well as those many families mentioned herein and their descendants of today.
Antonia Maury was the granddaughter of [[John William Draper]] and niece of [[Henry Draper]], both pioneering astronomers. The Draper and Maury families are related to one another several times over along with the Fontaine/Minor families and other allied kin such as Matthew Fontaine Maury's wife who was Diana Minor, a daughter of General John Minor, who also has prominent and extensive families -- as well as those many families mentioned herein and their descendants of today.


( a source "Maury Family Tree" by Sue C. Teague)
( a source "Maury Family Tree" by Sue C. Teague)

Revision as of 20:14, 4 January 2011

Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Maury (March 21, 1866–January 8, 1952) was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra.

Early life

Antonia Maury was born in Cold Spring, New York. She was named in honor of her direct ancestress, Antonia Coetana de Pravia Pereia of a noble family that had to flee Portugal to Brazil because of Napoleon Bonaparte's wars. Some of that royal family was imprisoned by Napoleon.

(a source "America Is People and Ideas" by Dorothy Myers Peed) (a source Henry Draper and John William Draper Wikipedia articles.

Antonia's father was the Reverend Mytton Maury, a direct descendant of the Reverend James Maury (who fathered 13 children) and one of the sons of Sarah Mytton Maury who married William Maury and had 11 children and was also the authoress of "Statesmen of America". Antonia Maury's mother was Virginia Draper, a daughter of Antonia Coetana de Pravia Pereia and Dr. John William Draper.

(a source "America Is People and Ideas" by Dorothy Myers Peed)

Reverend Mytton Maury is a descendant of Reverend James Maury who fathered 13 children and a kinsman of Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury of the United States Naval Observatory who is a grandson of the Reverend James Maury.

Rev. Mytton Maury, minister and naturalist, married Virginia Draper and had three children,

  1. John William Draper Maury who became a doctor
  2. Antonia Coetana [aka Caetana] de Pravia Pereia Maury
  3. Carlota [aka Carlotta] Jaquina Maury (gained prominence in palentology -- [1]-"Carlota Jaquina Maury - American Palentologist" website.)

Antonia Maury was the granddaughter of John William Draper and niece of Henry Draper, both pioneering astronomers. The Draper and Maury families are related to one another several times over along with the Fontaine/Minor families and other allied kin such as Matthew Fontaine Maury's wife who was Diana Minor, a daughter of General John Minor, who also has prominent and extensive families -- as well as those many families mentioned herein and their descendants of today.

( a source "Maury Family Tree" by Sue C. Teague)

Astronomical work

Antonia Maury was educated at Vassar College, graduating in 1887. She was employed at Harvard College Observatory, where she observed stellar spectra and published a catalogue of classifications in 1897 (Spectra of Bright Stars Photographed with the 11-inch Draper Telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial, Annals of Harvard College Observatory, vol. 28, pp. 1-128).

When the director of HCO at the time, Edward Charles Pickering, disagreed with Maury’s system of classification and explanation of differing line widths, she left Harvard College Observatory. However, Ejnar Hertzsprung realized the value of her classifications and used them in his system of identifying giant and dwarf stars.

In 1908, Antonia Maury returned to Harvard College Observatory where she remained for many years. Her most famous work there was the spectroscopic analysis of the binary star Beta Lyrae, published in 1933 (The Spectral Changes of Beta Lyrae, Annals of Harvard College Observatory, vol. 84, no. 8).

Awards

In 1943, Antonia Maury was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society. The lunar crater Maury is shared with and was co-named for Antonia Maury with it having previously been named only for her cousin, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Navy. It is, perhaps, the only lunar crater shared by two cousins.

  • [2] Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Maury - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College.


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