Muriel Mussells Seyfert
Muriel M. Seyfert | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 3, 1909 |
| Died | November 9, 1997 (aged 88) |
| Resting place | Hall County Memorial Park, Gainesville, GA 34°16′06″N 83°51′46″W / 34.26833°N 83.86278°W |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomer, Portrait artist |
Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (born Muriel Elizabeth Mussells, February 3, 1909 – November 9, 1997) was an American astronomer best known for discovering a "ring nebulae" (planetary nebulae) in the Milky Way while working at the Harvard College Observatory in 1936 as a human computer.
The discovery was picked up by the newswires and reported in newspapers across the country. Articles described the objects as "tremendous rings of star-dust" and that "each is believed to be hundreds of times larger than our entire solar system.".