Education
She received a Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy from Harvard College in 1930.
She received a Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy from Harvard College in 1930.
She spent her career at the McCormick Observatory of the University of Virginia, where her speciality was the motion of stars and the kinematics of the Milky Way. They had one son, Victor A. (a mathematician and computer scientist), who was involved in the Multics project and creator of the Darwin computer game. She was awarded the Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society in 1946.