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Leah Allen
Leah Brown Allen
was an
American
astronomer
and Professor of
Astronomy
at
Hood College
.
She joined
Lick Observatory
as
Carnegie
Assistant in 1908. Professor Allen began teaching
astronomy
at Hood in
1928
.
Education
Hope Street School
, 1902
Brown University
, 1904–1906,
special
work in
astronomy under Professor
Winslow Upton
Wellesley College
, M.A. 1912
Prizes named in her honor
Leah B. Allen Award for Excellence in
Math
and Science, Hood College
Leah B. Allen
Prize
in Astronomy, Hood College
Correspondents
Annie Jump Cannon
William
F. Meggers
Memberships
American Astronomical Society
AAVSO
,
Charter Member
Publications
"A study of the peculiar spectrum of the star Eta Centauri" .
The
radial velocities
of twenty southern
variable stars
of
class
Me ; A study of the changes in the spectrum of
T Centauri
University of California Press