翻訳と辞書 |
Wertha Pendleton Cole : ウィキペディア英語版 | Wertha Pendleton Cole
Wertha Pendleton Cole (January 18, 1891 – January 1, 1959) was an American educational administrator and astronomer.〔''Leaders in Education'' p. 207〕 ==Biography== She was born on January 18, 1891 to William Frederic Pendleton. He was the founding bishop of the General Church of the New Jerusalem. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in 1914.〔 As part of her graduate work at the University of Virginia, in 1917-1918, she did parallax observations for Prof. Samuel Alfred Mitchell at the McCormick Observatory.〔 She was the Dean of Women at Bryn Athyn College from 1943 to 1958 and also headed the astronomy department.〔〔 She organized the Bryn Athyn team for Operation Moonwatch〔 explaining: "I wanted to do something practical for the International Geophysical Year. I felt this was the best way to help."〔''The Sunday Bulletin'', Philadelphia, PA, May 18, 1958, Section 2, p. 1〕 She was a member of the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society from 1935 to 1959, serving as its secretary 1950-1951. She died on January 1, 1959.
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「Wertha Pendleton Cole」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|