Ida Barney was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars.
10 Facts About Ida Barney
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Ida Barney was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yale University Observatory.
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Ida Barney was the 1952 recipient of the Annie J Cannon Award in Astronomy.
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Ida Barney's mother was Ida Bushnell Barney and her father was Samuel Eben Barney.
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Ida Barney was an avid birder and the New Haven Bird Club President.
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In 1908, Ida Barney was graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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At the beginning of her career in astronomy, Ida Barney worked under Frank Schlesinger; she plotted the position of stars from photographic plates and worked on the calculations of their celestial coordinates from their positions on the plates.
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In 1941, when Schlesinger retired, Ida Barney took over full supervision of the cataloguing.
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Ida Barney was listed under "Science" with Margaret Mead and Annie Jump Cannon, among others.
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Ida Barney's remains are interred at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.