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Jun 03, 1900 Rock Island, Illinois, United States Died on 26 Jun 1932 (aged 32)
American astronomer
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About Adelaide Ames
- Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University.
- She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog.
- Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society.
- She was a contemporary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her closest friend at the observatory.Ames died in a boating accident in 1932, the same year the Shapley-Ames catalog was published.
- She was interred at the Arlington National Cemetery.
