Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer and professor who received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2019. The minor planet 7804 Boesgaard is named after her, the name having been proposed by Dutch astronomers C.J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.
Boesgaard received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1961 from Mount Holyoke College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. She subsequently became a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020
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Further reading
Boesgaard, Ann M. One woman's journey. Mercury, v. 21, January/February 1992: 19–22, 37. illus., ports. QB1.M43, v. 21 Boesgaard, Ann M. In Who's who in technology. 7th ed. Kimberly A. McGrath, editor. New York, Gale Research [1995] page 109. T39.W5 1995 Morrison, Nancy D., and Andrew Fraknoi. The 1990 A.S.P. awards. The Muhlmann Prize to Ann Boesgaard. Mercury, v. 19, November/December 1990: pages 182–185. illus., port.QB1.M43, v. 19 Parker, Barry. Ann Boesgaard. In his Stairway to the stars; the story of the world's largest observatory. Drawings by Lori Scoffield. New York, Plenum Press [1994] pages 278–282. port. QB82.U62M387 1994.
External links
Faculty profile at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty American women astronomers Mount Holyoke College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Fellows of the American Astronomical Society