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Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas : ウィキペディア英語版 | Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas
Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas (1905–1997) was the first woman, second American, and third person to earn a Ph.D. degree in the History of Science from Harvard University or Radcliffe College. The first two recipients of this degree at Harvard were Aydin Sayili of Turkey in 1942 and I. Bernard Cohen in 1947.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00456 )〕 ==Early life and education== Born August 21, 1905 in New York City, Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas is the daughter of Helen Burdick Lewis and Charles Hengry Lewis Jr. She attended the St. Catherine's School in Westhampton, Richmond, Virginia through 1924 before attending Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Radcliffe, she studied astronomy and government and graduated ''cum laude'' from Radcliffe 1928.〔 While studying at Radcliffe, she began working part-time at the Harvard Observatory under Dr. Willem Luyten. Luyten's major field of research was devoted to the discovery of white dwarf stars.〔 Her graduate studies began in 1937 at Harvard University in the department of History of Science. Her dissertation was entitled, ''The Early History of Variable Star Observing to the 19th Century''.〔
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