| 词条 | Elizabeth Langdon Williams |
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Elizabeth Langdon Williams (February 8, 1879 in Putnam, Connecticut – 1981{{r|schindler}}) was an American astronomer. She graduated from MIT in physics in 1903 as one of their earliest female graduates,{{r|loa}} and was hired by Percival Lowell to help find Planet X.{{r|littmann}} She was the head human computer for Lowell in 1915, when her calculations led to the first captured image of Pluto, but she left the observatory before 1930 when Clyde Tombaugh finally realized the significance of this image.{{r|swm}} In 1922, she married another astronomer, George Hall Hamilton.{{r|schindler|brc}} References1. ^{{citation|title=Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System|series=Dover Books on Astronomy|first=Mark|last=Littmann|publisher=Courier Corporation|year=2004|isbn=9780486436029|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoJMadct4TQC&pg=PA67}} [1][2][3][4]2. ^{{citation|url=http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/ref/collection/loapluto/id/11|title= Elizabeth Langdon Williams|work=Year of Pluto|publisher=Lowell Observatory Archives|accessdate=2017-08-09}} 3. ^{{citation|title=Lowell Observatory|series=Images of America|first=Kevin|last=Schindler|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2016|isbn= 9781439655726|page=63|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26NgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63}} 4. ^{{citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ_W45jIs1U|work=Storied Women of MIT|title= Elizabeth Langdon Williams|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}} }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Elizabeth Langdon}}{{US-astronomer-stub}} 5 : 1879 births|1981 deaths|American astronomers|Women astronomers|Human computers |
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