Margaret's Biography

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  • Graduated Woodrow Wilson High School, 1937
  • Honors graduate, Swarthmore College, 1941, mathematics
  • Member, Society of Sigma Xi, 1942
  • University of Chicago, PhD - Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1944
  • Student of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar [link]
  • Doctoral dissertation — “Physical Problems Related to the Hydrogen and Helium Lines in Stellar Spectra” [link]
  • Three year fellowship in Astronomy at Yerkes Observatory [link]

       Publications
  • ​Note on the Stark Effect for Large Quantum Numbers [link]
  • On the Negative Hydrogen Ion and its Absorption Coefficient, Astrophysical Journal, July 1943 [link]
  • Physical Problems Related to the hydrogen and Helium Lines in Stellar Spectra - Astrophysical Journal - November 1944 [link]
  • The Interaction of a Proton and a Helium Atom in its Excited States Astrophysical Journal, July 1945 [link]
  • On the Broadening of Neutral Helium Lines in Stellar Spectra - Astrophysical Journal, March 1947 [link]
  • On the Broadening of Hydrogen Lines in Stellar Spectra—Astrophysical Journal, November 1949 [link]
  • The Interaction of a Proton and a Hydrogen Atom in its Excited States [link]
​Yerkes Observatory staff, May 1946, from left (back row): Paul Ledoux, Arne Slettebak, Margaret Phillips, Fred Pearson, John G. Phillips, Armin Deutsch, Roy Wickham, Merle E. Tuberg, William Bidelman, Marshall Wrubel, Irene Hansen, Frances H. Breen, Arthur D. Code, Alice Johnson, Gertrude Peterson, Marguerite Van Biesbroeck, Carlos Cesco, Edith Janssen, Victor M. Blanco, John Vosatka, H. J. Bernstein; (middle row) Polydore Swings, Gerhard Herzberg, Luisa Herzberg, William W. Morgan, Otto Struve (Director), Jesse L. Greenstein, Gerard P. Kuiper, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, George Van Biesbroeck, Louis G. Henyey; (front row) Dorothy Deutsch, Martha B. Carlson, Anne B. Underhill, Guido Münch, Doris Blakeley, Margaret K. Krogdahl, Nancy G. Roman, Carleton Pearson.