A. Grace Cook

Alice Grace Cook (1887 - 1958), known as Grace Cook or A. Grace Cook was a British astronomer. She joined the British Astronomical Association in 1911,[1] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1915,[2] part of the first group of women elected as fellows.[3] She was renowned for her work observing meteors, and also observed naked-eye phenomena including the zodiacal light and aurorae. Cook also searched for comets and Milky Way novae.[4] Cook was among the discoverers of V603 Aquilae, a nova that occurred in 1918.[1] This work earned her the Edward J. Pickering Fellowship from the Maria Mitchell Association in 1920–1921.[4] With Fiammetta Wilson, Cook headed the British Astronomical Association's Meteor Section from 1921–1923.[5][6] With Joseph Hardcastle, Cook worked to identify and describe 785 New General Catalogue objects on a series of photographic plates taken by John Franklin-Adams.[7]

Cook lived in Stowmarket, Suffolk.[4] She died in 1958 and was remembered by her colleagues as a skilled and dedicated astronomer.[1]

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 Larsen, Kristine (December 2006). "Shooting Stars: The Women Directors of the Meteor Section of the British Astronomical Association". The Antiquarian Astronomer (Society for the History of Astronomy) 3: 75–82. Bibcode:2006AntAs...3...75L.
  2. Ogilvie, Marilyn B. (1986). Women in Science. The MIT Press. p. 181. ISBN 0-262-15031-X.
  3. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000-03-01). "Obligatory Amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868–1947) and British Women Astronomers at the Dawn of Professional Astronomy". The British Journal for the History of Science 33 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1017/s0007087499003878. ISSN 0007-0874. Retrieved 2014-01-11.
  4. 1 2 3 Cannon, Annie J. (17 February 1921). "Report of the Astronomical Fellowship Committee". Annual Report of the Maria Mitchell Association 19: 15–17. Bibcode:1921MMAAR..19...15C. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  5. Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Taylor and Francis. pp. 287–288. ISBN 9780415920407.
  6. Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Taylor and Francis. p. 1385. ISBN 9780415920407.
  7. Steinicke. Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139490108.
  8. Hunter, Alan (1958). "The Ordinary General Meeting of the Association Held on Wednesday, 1958 June 25". Journal of the British Astronomical Association (British Astronomical Association) 68 (8): 302. Bibcode:1958JBAA...68..302B. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
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