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Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 – September 12, 1927), American physicist and astronomer, was the instructor to several astronomers, including Annie Jump Cannon. ==Biography== Whiting graduated from Ingham University in 1865. Whiting was appointed by Wellesley College president Henry Fowle Durant, one year after the College's 1875 opening, as its first professor of physics. She established its physics department and the undergraduate experimental physics lab at Wellesley, the second of its kind to be started in the country. At the request of Durant, she attended lectures at MIT given by Edward Charles Pickering.〔Patricia Ann Palmieri (1995). ''In Adamless Eden''. Yale University Press: New Haven.〕 He invited Whiting to observe some of the new techniques being applied to astronomy, such as spectroscopy. 〔Klaus Hentschel (1999). ''The culture of visual representations in spectroscopic education and laboratory instruction''. Physics in Perspective 1: 282-327 and (2002) ''Mapping the Spectrum''. Oxford: OUP, pp. 385-393 on her spectroscopy classes.〕 In 1880, Whiting started teaching a course on Practical Astronomy at Wellesley. In 1895, as told by biographer Annie Jump Cannon,
Between 1896 and 1900, Whiting helped Wellesley College trustee Sarah Elizabeth Whitin to establish the Whitin Observatory, of which Whiting became the first director. Tufts College bestowed an honorary doctorate on Whiting in 1905. She was also known for supporting prohibition. Whiting retired from Wellesley in 1916 and was a Professor Emeritus until her death in 1927. She is buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Le Roy, New York, near her now-defunct alma mater. 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「Sarah Frances Whiting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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