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Nancy Roman

Nancy Roman

American astronomer
Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing... Wikipedia
Born: May 16, 1925, Nashville, TN
Died: December 25, 2018 (age 93 years), Germantown, MD
Education: The University of Chicago (1949) and Swarthmore College (1946)
Known for: Planning of the Hubble Space Telescope
Parents: Irwin Roman
Fields: Astronomy