- Louise Freeland Jenkins
Louise Freeland Jenkins (
July 5 ,1888 –May 9 ,1970 ) was an Americanastronomer .She was born in
Fitchburg, Massachusetts . In 1911 she graduated fromMount Holyoke College , then she received aMaster's degree inastronomy in 1917 from the same institution. From 1913 to 1915 she worked at theAllegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.About 1921 she moved to
Japan , becoming a teacher at the Women's Christian College, amissionary school. She returned to theUnited States in 1925 after her father died. A year later she returned to teach at a school inHimeji . (Hinomoto Gakuen girl'shigh school .)In 1932 she returned to the US and became a staff member at Yale University Observatory. She was co-editor of the "
Astronomical Journal " starting in 1942, and continued in this post until 1958. She would return to visit Japan later in her life.She was noted for her research into the trigonometric
parallax of nearby stars. She also studiedvariable star s.Bibliography
*
Frank Schlesinger and Louise F. Jenkins, "Yale Bright Star Catalogue", 2nd edition.
* Louise F. Jenkins, "General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes", Yale University Observatory, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963.Honors
* Jenkins crater on the
Moon is named for her.References
* Sei-Ichi Sakuma, " [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1985JAVSO..14...67P Louise F. Jenkins, Astronomer and Missionary in Japan] ", Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 67-68.
External links
* [http://home.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/women9/louise.html Louise Freeland Jenkins 1911] , including portrait image.
* [http://www.hinomoto.ac.jp/ Hinomoto Gakuen Senior High School]
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