Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1905-1993
Abstract
Canada lost one of its most famous and best-loved astronomers with the death of Professor Helen B. Sawyer Hogg in Richmond Hill, Ontario on January 28, 1993. She was a life-long variable star observer who served as President of the AAVSO from 1939 to 1941, and maintained a keen interest in the Association throughout her life.
- Publication:
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Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (JAAVSO)
- Pub Date:
- 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993JAVSO..22...83C
- Keywords:
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- AAVSO;
- ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA;
- CANADIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY;
- GLOBULAR CLUSTERS