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Debra Meloy Elmegreen (born in South Bend, Indiana) is an American astronomer. She was the first woman to graduate from Princeton University with a degree in astrophysics, and she was the first female post-doctoral researcher at the Carnegie Observatories. She married astronomer Bruce Elmegreen, and they have authored astronomy papers together. Since 1985, she has been a professor of astronomy at Vassar College. She wrote an astronomy textbook published by Prentice Hall in 1997. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2010-2012. ==Biography== Elmegreen was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1952. She became interested in astronomy at a young age.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debra Meloy Elmegreen )〕 She received her bachelor's degree in astrophysics from the Princeton University in 1975, where she was the first woman to graduate with an astrophysics major. She earned both her Masters and Ph.D from Harvard University in astronomy. Elmegreen did post-doctoral research at the Hale Observatory (now Mount Wilson Observatory) beginning in 1979, where she was the first female post-doctoral researcher at any of the Carnegie Observatories.〔 She currently teaches astronomy at Vassar College.〔 Elmegreen is particularly interested in Star formation and star forming galaxies.〔 In 1997, Elmegreen published an astronomy textbook for under graduates titled, ''Galaxies and Galactic Structure'', through Prentice Hall. Elmegreen has also published over 200 academic papers. She was president of the American Astronomical Society from 2010-2012,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debra Meloy Elmegreen )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Past Officers and Councilors )〕 and was appointed as a board member of the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey through the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey )〕 Since 1976, she has been married to the astronomer Bruce Elmegreen.〔〔 In 2013, they authored a paper, "The Onset of Spiral Structure in the Universe", published in the ''Astrophysical Journal''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Debra Elmegreen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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