Hannah Steele Pettit
Hannah Steele Pettit | |
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| Born | Hannah Bard Steele November 6, 1886 |
| Died | September 10, 1961 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College University of Chicago |
| Known for | Publishing images on the corona of the solar eclipse |
| Spouse | Edison Pettit |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | Yorkes Observatory Mount Wilson Observatory |
| Thesis | Proper Motions and Parallaxes of 359 Stars in the Cluster h Persei |
Hannah Steele Pettit (November 6, 1886 – September 10, 1961), also known as Hannah Bard Steele Pettit, was an American astronomer who spent a notable amount of her career working as an assistant at the Yerkes Observatory, where she and her husband Edison Pettit jointly published photographs on the corona of a solar eclipse.