Denice D. Denton, chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won the 2006 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award, a prestigious national recognition of exceptional work that advances ...

The Maria Mitchell Association will host an online science talk, “Dark and Quiet: Astronomy in the Age of Satellite Constellation,” presented by Joshua Reding at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Zoom.

On Oct. 1, 1847, at age 29, Maria Mitchell, a studious and sturdy Quaker who, as a child, began sweeping the sky above Nantucket, Mass., with a telescope, became America’s first scientist to discover ...

Maria Mitchell, the first widely recognized American woman scientist, gained international acclaim after discovering a comet in 1847. As Vassar College’s first astronomy professor, she advanced ...

Born Aug. 1, 1818, Maria Mitchell was raised in the Quaker tradition, which allowed equal education for boys and girls. This, plus lessons from her father, afforded her the opportunity to become ...

Article ‘Count’ and ‘Share’ for Maria Mitchell Observatory based on listed parameters only. The articles listed below published by authors from Maria Mitchell Observatory, organized by journal and ...

Jehle, Michael A., ed., "Picturing Nantucket: an art history of the island with paintings from the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association: works by artists born before 1900," Nantucket, MA ...