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E. Dorrit Hoffleit, Ph.D.

	E. Dorrit Hoffleit, Ph.D.
Industry	Research
Title	Senior Research Astronomer (Retired)
Expertise	Star catalogues, history of astronomy, variable stars
Current Organization	Yale University, Dept. of Astronomy
Type of Organization	Educational
Major Product	Astronomy research
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	A.B., Cum Laude, Mathematics, 1928; M.A., 1932; Ph.D., Astronomy, 1938, Radcliffe College
Born	March 12, 1907, Florence, Alabama
Honors & Awards	Recipient of over a dozen honors, including two Doctor of Science degrees, from Smith College in 1984 and Central Connecticut State University in 1998; the 1997 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award, Nantucket Maria Mitchell Assoc.; one of 4 women to whom the 1999 State Register and Manual of Connecticut was dedicated; the 2002 AAVSO William Tyler Olcott Distinguished Service Award
Published Works	Author, "Astronomy at Yale 1701-1968" (Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 23, xvii + 230pp, 1992) and "Misfortunes as Blessings in Disguise" (xvii + 176pp), an autobiography solicited and published by the Amer. Assoc. of Variable Star Observers, 2002; Compiled 2 editions (1964 and 1982) of Yale's "The Bright Star Catalogue", giving data on 9110 naked-eye stars. Also published some 450 articles mainly on variable stars, meteors, classification of stellar spectra, proper motions of stars, and history of astronomy
Affiliations	Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame; Int'l Astronomical Union; Amer. Astronomical Society; Amer. Assoc. of Variable Star Observers; The Meteoritical Society; Connecticut Acad. of Arts and Sciences; New York Acad. of Sciences; Nantucket Maria Mitchell Society (Dir. of Observatory 1956-78)
Hobbies & Sports	Staying active
Career Accomplishments	For her 90th birthday a symposium entitled Anni Mirabiles was held at Yale to which 27 astronomers contributed papers (L. Davis Press Inc., 1999, xiii + 173pp edited by A.G.D. Philip, W.F. Van Altena and A.R. Upgren)
Work History	Employed at Harvard College Observatory, 1929-56 except for war work at the Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 1943-48; Research Astronomer at Yale 1956-75, continuing volunteer research up to the present; Director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory, Nantucket, MA, 1957-78, specializing in the encouragement of potential women astronomers
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