Allie Vibert Douglas: astronomer and pioneering teacher of astrophysics

Milky Way Galaxy on clear dark night sky

Allie Vibert Douglas,OC, MBE, and LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션™75, was an astronomer and a pioneer in the teaching of astrophysics.

She came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s in 1939 and was the university카지노 게임 컬렉션™s dean of women for the next 20 years. She taught physics until her retirement in 1964.

She served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society [1943-1945], as the first Canadian President of the International Federation of 카지노게임사이트 Women [1947-1950], and as the Canadian representative at the 1954 UNESCO conference in Montevideo.

In 1967, she was named one of 10 카지노 게임 컬렉션œWomen of the Century카지노 게임 컬렉션 by the National Council of Jewish Women.

Her research interests included spectroscopic absolute magnitudes of stars and the Stark effect in stellar atmospheres.

Dr. Douglas published both scholarly and popular articles on astronomy, sharing her delight in learning and in the exploration of the universe with a wide audience.

After the old campus observatory was demolished, in 1946, to make way for McLaughlin Hall, Dr. Douglas led the charge to rebuild the observatory atop Ellis Hall, its current location.

Following Dr. Douglas카지노 게임 컬렉션™s death in 1988, Asteroid 3269 was renamed Vibert-Douglas. In 2003, a patera, or crater, on the planet Venus was also named after her.

Members of the public can explore the wonders of the universe at monthly open houses at the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s Observatory

Throughout the ages intellectual progress has been due to three attributes of mankind 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ a deeply implanted, insatiable curiosity; a far-reaching, unrestrainable, unfetterable imagination; and an undaunted faith that there is order in the universe, an underlying harmony in nature카지노 게임 컬렉션¦.

You cannot solve the riddles of the stars without invoking the aid of the atom, nor can you fully comprehend the atom without the aid of the tars.

On the uplifting wings of imagination the astrophysicist roams the universe from atom to atom, from star to star, from star to atom, from atom to star.

Impelled by curiosity regarding the natural universe, encouraged by evidences for his faith in the reality of cosmic harmony, he presses on and on 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ a sweet and fitting thing it is to toil for Truth.

From atoms to stars카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ Allie Vibert Douglas, 1929

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