Ann Merchant Boesgaard

Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer and professor who received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2019.^[1] The minor planet 7804 Boesgaard is named after her, the name having been proposed by Dutch astronomers C.J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.^[2]

Boesgaard received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1961 from Mount Holyoke College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.^[3] She subsequently became a professor at the University of Hawaii.

She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020^[4]

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Further reading[]

• Boesgaard, Ann M. One woman's journey. Mercury, v. 21, Jan./Feb. 1992: 19–22, 37. illus., ports. QB1.M43, v. 21
• Boesgaard, Ann M. In Who's who in technology. 7th ed. Kimberly A. McGrath, editor. New York, Gale Research [1995] p. 109. T39.W5 1995
• Morrison, Nancy D., and Andrew Fraknoi. The 1990 A.S.P. awards. The Muhlmann Prize to Ann Boesgaard. Mercury, v. 19, Nov./Dec. 1990: 182–185. illus., port.QB1.M43, v. 19
• Parker, Barry. Ann Boesgaard. In his Stairway to the stars; the story of the world's largest observatory. Drawings by Lori Scoffield. New York, Plenum Press [1994] p. 278–282. port. QB82.U62M387 1994.

External links[]

• Faculty profile at the University of Hawaii

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