Eleanor Annie Lamson

alt=Black and white clipping from a newspaper featuring photographs of four different people. Photograph of Elanor A. Lamson (bottom right) at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C, and others, published in the Beverly Banner (newspaper). April 9, 1926. Eleanor Annie Lamson (19 April 1875 – 27 July 1932) was an astronomer and the first woman scientist at the US Naval Observatory.

Early life and education Eleanor Annie Lamson was born in Washington, D.C, to Franklin Silas Lamson and Anne Frances Lamson. In 1929, she wrote the technical summary of the submarine cruise for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey's Annual Report on Operations.

There are many scientific papers bearing her name describing her work on orbits for numerous different comets and for bodies that orbit Mars.

Selected publications

E. A. Lamson; A. Hall Jr.; E. C. Bower. (November 1926). "Corrections to the elements of the satellites of Mars". The Astronomical Journal. 37:69. doi:10.1086/104749