Harriet Dinerstein
Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985.[1][2] She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989.[1][2][3][4] Dinerstein received her Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980.[2] She currently is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.[1]
Her special areas of study include chemical abundances of stars, planetary nebulae, and H II regions (interstellar gas containing ionized hydrogen).[2] She also discovered in 1973 on photographic plates the recurrent nova , which erupted in May or June 1962, April 1990, and on 27 August 2019.
Awards[]
In 1989 she won the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society. In 1984 she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy from the .[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Dinerstein". McDonald Observatory. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "UT Astronomy". Faculty. 16 January 1997. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ "Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy". American Astronomical Society. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ Dalcanton, Julianne (23 August 2010). "D". Women in Astronomy: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Science Reference Services, Library of Congress) (in French). Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ "Harriet Dinerstein - Astronomy". www.as.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
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