A. Grace Cook
Alice Grace Cook (1887 - 1958), known as Grace Cook or A. Grace Cook was a British astronomer. She joined the British Astronomical Association in 1911,[1] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1915,[2] part of the first group of women elected as fellows.[3] She was renowned for her work observing meteors, and also observed naked-eye phenomena including the zodiacal light and aurorae. Cook also searched for comets and Milky Way novae.[4] Cook was among the discoverers of V603 Aquilae, a nova that occurred in 1918.[1] This work earned her the Edward J. Pickering Fellowship from the Maria Mitchell Association in 1920–1921.[4] With Fiammetta Wilson, Cook headed the British Astronomical Association's Meteor Section from 1921–1923.[5][6] With Joseph Hardcastle, Cook worked to identify and describe 785 New General Catalogue objects on a series of photographic plates taken by John Franklin-Adams.[7]
Cook lived in Stowmarket, Suffolk.[4] She died in 1958 and was remembered by her colleagues as a skilled and dedicated astronomer.[1]
Further reading
- ‘Death of Alice Grace Cook’, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 68, p 302.[8]
References
- ^ a b c Larsen, Kristine (December 2006). "Shooting Stars: The Women Directors of the Meteor Section of the British Astronomical Association". The Antiquarian Astronomer. 3. Society for the History of Astronomy: 75–82. Bibcode:2006AntAs...3...75L.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn B. (1986). Women in Science. The MIT Press. p. 181. ISBN 0-262-15031-X.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000-03-01). "Obligatory Amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868–1947) and British Women Astronomers at the Dawn of Professional Astronomy". The British Journal for the History of Science. 33 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1017/s0007087499003878. ISSN 0007-0874. JSTOR 4028066.
- ^ a b c Cannon, Annie J. (17 February 1921). "Report of the Astronomical Fellowship Committee". Annual Report of the Maria Mitchell Association. 19: 15–17. Bibcode:1921MMAAR..19...15C. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- ^ Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Taylor and Francis. pp. 287–288. ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Taylor and Francis. p. 1385. ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ Steinicke. Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139490108.
- ^ Hunter, Alan (1958). "The Ordinary General Meeting of the Association Held on Wednesday, 1958 June 25". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 68 (8). British Astronomical Association: 302. Bibcode:1958JBAA...68..302B. Retrieved 7 November 2015.