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Born Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 3 August 1890
Died Tucson, Arizona, USA, 24 January 1981
Besides doing calculations for her husband Harlow Shapley , American Martha Betz Shapley was an authority on eclipsing binary stars in her own right.
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Kopal, Zdenĕk (1981). “In Memoriam: Martha Betz Shapley (1890―1981).” Astrophysics and Space Science. 79: 261.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Shapley, Martha. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1267
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