List of women astronomers

The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable women who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.

Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)
Professor of astronomy at Vassar College

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Neta Bahcall (born 1942), Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter
  • Odette Bancilhon (1908–1998), French astronomer
  • Beatriz Barbuy (Born 1950), Brazilian strophysicist
  • Amy Barger (born 1971), American galactic astronomer
  • Nadine G. Barlow, American planetary scientist
  • Amy Barr, American planetary geophysicist
  • Maria A. Barucci, Italian astronomer
  • Sarbani Basu, Indian-American astronomer working in solar and stellar astrophysics
  • Natalie Batalha (born 1966), American astronomer
  • Stefi Baum (born 1958), American astronomer and educator
  • Reta Beebe (born 1936), American planetary scientist
  • Emilia Pisani Belserene (1922-2012), American astronomer
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), Irish radio astronomer
  • Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944), English selenologist
  • Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923–2017), German-born American stellar astronomer
  • Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896–1975), American astronomer of galactic astronomy
  • Tabetha S. Boyajian (born c. 1980), American stellar and exoplanetary astronomer
  • Sophia Brahe (c. 1559 to 1643), Danish noble woman
  • Ingeborg Brun (1872–1929), Danish amateur astronomer
  • Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist
  • Marta Burgay (born 1976), Italian radio astronomer
  • Mary E. Byrd (1849–1934), American educator and cometary observer

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Annie Jump Cannon 1922 Portrait
  • Annie Jump Cannon (1863−1941), American astronomer who cataloged stellar spectra
  • Robin M. Canup (born 1968), American planetary scientist
  • Nicole Capitaine (born 1948), French astronomer specializing in astrometry
  • C. Marcella Carollo, Italian astronomer studying galaxy formation and evolution
  • Catherine Cesarsky (born 1943), Argentinian–French astrophysicist
  • Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Moroccan-French astronomer
  • Kyongae Chang (born 1946), South Korean astrophysicist and instructor
  • Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751–1827), German noble and patron of astronomy
  • Jun Chen, Chinese–American astronomer
  • Lyudmila Chernykh (1935–2017), Russian astronomer
  • Jessie Christiansen, Australian astrophysicist
  • Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907), Irish astronomer and author
  • Judith Gamora Cohen (born 1946), American astronomer researching galactic astronomy
  • Françoise Combes (born 1952), French astrophysicist and educator
  • Lynn Cominsky (born 1953), American astrophysicist and educator
  • Janine Connes (born c. 1934), French astronomer
  • France A. Córdova (born 1947), American astrophysicist and administrator
  • Heather Couper (1949–2020), English astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser
  • Athena Coustenis, Greek planetary scientist
  • Carolin Crawford, English astrophysicist and educator
  • Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva (1978–2000), Brazilian astronomy student
  • Maria Cunitz (1610–1664), Silesian astronomer and author

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  • Maria Clara Eimmart (1676-1707), German astronomer, engraver, and designer
  • Sara Ellison, Canadian astronomer and instructor studying extragalactic astronomy
  • Rebecca Elson (1960–1999), Canadian–American astronomer and writer

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Caroline Furness (1918)
  • Sandra Faber (born 1944), American astrophysicist and instructor studying galactic evolution
  • Fira Fatmasiefa, (born 2000) Indonesian-American astrophysicist (UC Berkeley/Boston University)
  • Annette Ferguson, Scottish observational astrophysicist
  • Laura Ferrarese, Italian astronomer studying supermassive black holes
  • Debra Fischer, American astronomer investigating exoplanets
  • Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer
  • Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), Scottish astronomer
  • Anna Frebel (born 1980), German astronomer
  • Wendy Freedman (born 1957), Canadian-American observational cosmologist
  • Katherine Freese, German theoretical astrophysicist
  • Caroline Furness (1869–1936), American astronomer and teacher

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  • Catharine Garmany (born 1946), American astronomer and educator
  • Pamela L. Gay (born 1973), American astronomer, educator, and writer
  • Vera Fedorovna Gaze (1899–1954), Russian astronomer who studied emission nebula and minor planets
  • Margaret Geller (born 1947), American astrophysicist studying extragalactic astronomy
  • Andrea M. Ghez (born 1965), American astronomer, teacher, and Nobel prize winner
  • Agnes Giberne (1845–1939), English novelist and scientific writer
  • Nüzhet Gökdoğan (1910–2003), Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic
  • Merle Gold (1921-2017), American astrophysicist
  • Andreja Gomboc (born 1969), Slovenian astrophysicist
  • Alyssa A. Goodman (born 1962), American astrophysicist
  • Eva Grebel, German astronomer studying stellar populations and galaxy formation
  • Lucie Green (born c. 1975), English science communicator and solar researcher
  • Jenny Greene (born 1978), American astrophysicist and teacher studying supermassive black holes and galaxies
  • Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), Austrian astronomer

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Caroline Herschel (1750–1848)

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  • Violeta G. Ivanova, Bulgarian astronomer
  • Al-ʻIjliyyah (c. 10th-century), Arab maker of astrolabes

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Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1942)

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921)
  • Elizabeth Lada, American astronomer and instructor
  • Eleanor Annie Lamson (1875-1932), American astronomer
  • Marguerite Laugier, French astronomer who discovered minor planets
  • Gemma Lavender (born 1986), British astronomer, author and journalist
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer who observed variable stars
  • Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), French astronomer and mathematician
  • Isabel Martin Lewis (1881–1966), American astronomer and author
  • Nikole Lewis, American astrophysicist
  • Helen Lines (died 2001), American amateur astronomer
  • Sarah Lee Lippincott (1920–2019), American astronomer and instructor who focused on astrometry
  • Jane Luu (born 1963), Vietnamese–American astronomer and defense systems engineer

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  • Amy Mainzer (born 1974), American astronomer specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy
  • Esmeralda Mallada (born 1937), Uruguayan astronomer and instructor
  • Rachel Mandelbaum, American astronomer
  • Karen Masters (born 1979), American astrophysicist studying galaxy formation and evolution
  • Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943–2004), Turkish-American astronomer studying variable stars
  • Annie Russell Maunder (1868–1947), Irish-British astronomer
  • Antonia Maury (1866–1952), American astronomer studying stellar astronomy
  • Claire Ellen Max (born 1946), American astronomer and instructor
  • Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer studying variable stars
  • Jaylee Burley Mead (1929–2012), American astronomer
  • Karen Jean Meech (born 1959), American planetary scientist
  • Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator
  • Linda A. Morabito (born 1953), American planetary scientist
  • Jean Mueller (born 1950), American astronomer
  • Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Turkish astrophysicist

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  • Sultana N. Nahar, Bangladeshi-American physicist studying atomic processes in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas
  • Joan Najita, American astronomer researching the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems
  • Yaël Nazé, Belgian astrophysicist studying massive stars and their environmental interaction
  • Heidi Jo Newberg, American astrophysicist studying the Milky Way structure

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Carolina Ödman-Govender in 2013.
  • Carolina Ödman-Govender, (1974–2022), Swiss astrophysicist and lecturer
  • Sally Oey, American astronomer researching massive stars
  • Kathleen Ollerenshaw, (1912–2014), English mathematician, politician, and amateur astronomer
  • C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer and computer scientist who has discovered minor planets
  • Liisi Oterma (1915–2001), Finnish astronomer
  • Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist
  • Feryal Özel (born 1975), Turkish astrophysicist studying stellar remnants

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Elisa Quintana in 2014

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  • Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius, Finnish astronomer who studied minor planets
  • Katharine Reeves, American solar astronomer
  • Emily Rice, American astronomer researching sub-stellar objects including brown dwarfs
  • Christina Richey, American planetary scientist and astrophysicist
  • Julia Riley, English radio astronomer
  • Constance M. Rockosi, American galactic astronomer
  • Elizabeth Roemer (1929–2016), American astronomer who studied minor planets
  • Nancy Roman (1925–2018), American stellar astronomer
  • Marta Graciela Rovira, Argentinian astrophysicist
  • Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer researching extragalactic astronomy
  • María Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer

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Carolyn S. Shoemaker
  • Penny Sackett (born 1956), American-born Australian astronomer, educator, and manager
  • Rita M. Sambruna, Italian-American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and jets
  • Anneila Sargent (born 1942), Scottish–American astronomer specialized in star formation
  • Ann Savage (1946–2017), British astronomer
  • Caterina Scarpellini (1808–1873), Italian astronomer and meteorologist
  • Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
  • Waltraut Seitter (1930–2007), German astronomer and instructor
  • Muriel Mussells Seyfert (1909–1997), American astronomer
  • Pelageya Shajn (1894–1956), Russian astronomer searching for minor planets
  • Aomawa Shields, American astrophysicist and professor researching exoplanets
  • Carolyn S. Shoemaker (born 1929), American astronomer
  • Amy Simon, American planetary scientist
  • Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898–1990), American astronomer who studied stellar physics
  • Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (1935–2001), Russian astronomer who searched for minor planets and comets
  • Alicia M. Soderberg (born 1977), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on supernovae
  • Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath
  • Linda Spilker, American planetary scientist
  • Denise Stephens, American astronomer and instructor
  • Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, American planetary scientist
  • Annapurni Subramaniam, director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics
  • Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer
  • Jean Swank, American astrophysicist studying compact objects
  • Henrietta Hill Swope (1902–1980), American astronomer who studied variable stars
  • Nadezhda Sytinskaya (1906-1974), Soviet astronomer and planetary scientist
  • Paula Szkody (born 1948), American astronomer and instructor specialized in cataclysmic variable stars

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  • Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer focused on SETI
  • Florence Taylor Hildred (1865–1932), English astronomer and pastor
  • Alenush Terian (1921–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer
  • Michelle Thaller (born 1969), American astronomer and educator
  • Jana Tichá (born 1965), Czech astronomer searching for minor planets
  • Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), British-born New Zealand astronomer studying galactic evolution
  • Maura Tombelli (born 1952), Italian amateur astronomer
  • Christy A. Tremonti, American astronomer
  • Virginia Louise Trimble (born 1943), American astronomer
  • Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855–1931), Russian astronomer
  • Margaret Turnbull (born 1975), American astronomer and astrobiologist

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  • Anne Barbara Underhill (1920–2003), Canadian astrophysicist who studied massive stars
  • Meg Urry, American astrophysicist studying supermassive black holes and galaxies

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Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927)
  • Lucianne Walkowicz (born 1979), American astronomer
  • Wang Zhenyi (1768–1797), Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet
  • Kim Weaver (born 1964), American astrophysicist and instructor focused on X-ray astronomy
  • Alycia J. Weinberger, American astronomer studying planetary formation
  • Mareta West (1915–1998), American astrogeologist
  • Sarah Frances Whiting (1847–1927), American physicist, astronomer, and instructor
  • Mary Watson Whitney (1847–1921), American astronomer and teacher
  • Belinda Wilkes, English astrophysicist
  • Beth Willman, American cosmologist
  • Lee Anne Willson (born 1947), American astronomer
  • Anna Winlock (1857–1904), American astronomer
  • Jennifer Wiseman, American astrophysicist
  • Rosemary Wyse (born 1957), Scottish astrophysicist and instructor
  • Frances Woodworth Wright (1897–1989), American astronomer and educator
  • Gillian Wright, Scottish astronomer
  • Barbara A. Williams, American radio astronomer

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  • Ye Shuhua (born 1927), Chinese astronomer and instructor
  • Anne Sewell Young (1871–1961), American astronomer who studied variable stars
  • Judith Young (1952–2014), American physicist, astronomer, and educator
  • Louise Gray Young (1935-2018), American astronomer and researcher

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  • Magdalena Zeger (around 1491–1568), calendar maker, astronomer, first women to publish idependtly in the field of astronomy
  • Lyudmila Zhuravlyova (born 1946), Russian-Ukrainian astronomer who discovered minor planets
  • Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist

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