Yerkes Observatory
Observatory in Williams Bay, WisconsinWikipedia
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Oct 30, 2026
Patrick LawrenceGUEST
She came to get her PhD in the 1940s, and her passion for astronomy propelled her to keep working in the field and to gain a PhD from the University of Chicago back in 1946.
Patrick LawrenceGUEST
And then she worked at the Yerkes Observatory and then went on to work at the Naval Research Lab.
Patrick LawrenceGUEST
She observed the star AG Draconis, I think it is, and discovered that its emission spectrum had completely changed since earlier observations.
Patrick LawrenceGUEST
And this basically raised her profile amongst other astronomers.
MarkHOST
Meanwhile, the lens, yeah, the lens people kept trying.
MarkHOST
And in 1790 or 1897 at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, they finished a 40 inch refractor.
MarkHOST
Still the biggest working lens telescopes ever built.
MarkHOST
This 40 inches turned out to be about the limit for a lens because the lens can only be held at its edge because the light has to pass through it.
Jenifer MillardHOST
And then when she finished her doctorate, she loved being at Chicago.
Jenifer MillardHOST
She loved, you know, using the Yerkes Observatory for her teaching and for her observing.
Jenifer MillardHOST
Um, and she was doing stellar spectroscopy then afterwards.
Jenifer MillardHOST
And she was incredibly highly sighted.
Ryan HamiltonGUEST
So the instrument I worked at with SOFIA in my previous job, uh, I was the instrument scientist for, uh, during the commissioning process.
Ryan HamiltonGUEST
Uh, the instrument itself was a, a v- very long, complicated history and, and collaboration, uh, from Yerkes Observatory and also, uh, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Ryan HamiltonGUEST
So I came in at the relative tail end of that, and that was really my first, uh, experience with polarimetry in the real world.
Ryan HamiltonGUEST
Uh, during grad school, I had experienced it in just the abstract, you know, here's the math of how it all works, and it was kind of treated as like a black box of just like, ooh, this is complicated [laughs].
JennyHOST
And then when she finished her doctorate, she loved being at Chicago.
JennyHOST
She loved using the Yerkes Observatory for her teaching and for her observing.
JennyHOST
And she was doing stellar spectroscopy then, afterwards.
JennyHOST
And she was incredibly highly cited.