Background
Prince, Helen Dodson was born on December 31, 1905 in Baltimore. Daughter of Henry Clay and Helen Falls (Walter) Dodson.
Astronomy educator solar consultant
Prince, Helen Dodson was born on December 31, 1905 in Baltimore. Daughter of Henry Clay and Helen Falls (Walter) Dodson.
AB, Goucher College, 1927. Doctor of Science (honorary), Goucher College, 1952. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1932.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1933.
Being skilled in both physics and mathematics, Prince received a full scholarship to study mathematics at Goucher College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927. During her undergraduate studies, she was influenced by professor Florence P. Lewis to study astronomy. Prince"s doctoral thesis was entitled "A Study of the Spectrum of 25 Orionis".
Prince served as an assistant professor of astronomy at Wellesley College from 1933-1945.
Prince spent the summers of 1934 and 1935, at the Maria Mitchell Observatory, where she continued to study the spectroscopy of 25 Orionis. Her findings would later be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
During the summers of 1938 and 1939, Prince"s interest in solar activity became prominent while researching it at the Paris Observatory. Between 1943 and 1945, Prince worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Radiation Laboratory, where she made significant contributions to the study of radar.
After World World War II, she returned to Goucher College, where she was an astronomy professor from 1945 to 1950.
Prince began her research at the McMath–Hulbert Observatory in 1947 and eventually left Massachusetts Institute of Technology to became its associate director as well as to be an astronomy professor in Michigan. Throughout her career, Dodson published over 130 journal articles, mostly on solar flares.
Member of American Geophysical Union, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society (Annie Jump Cannon prize 1954), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Edmond Lafayette Prince, October 24, 1956 (deceased).