Education
Jocelyn Gill worked at Mount Holyoke College as a laboratory assistant and instructor of astronomy, before being hired at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and receiving her Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1959.
Jocelyn Gill worked at Mount Holyoke College as a laboratory assistant and instructor of astronomy, before being hired at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and receiving her Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1959.
Gill joined National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1961 where she worked on the manned space program, carried out research, held the position of chief of in-flight science from 1963 to 1966, and worked on Project Gemini. She participated in a solar eclipse flight in July 1963 on which she observed the sun"s corona and aimed to teach the astronauts travelling with her about astronomy. A field they were not otherwise required to be knowledgeable in.
She died of the disease in April 1984 at the age of 67.