Ann Merchant Boesgaard

Ann Merchant Boesgaard
Boesgaard in 1969
Nationality	American
Education	Mount Holyoke College, University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Smithsonian Fellow, Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Website	http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~boes/

Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer and professor who received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2019. The minor planet 7804 Boesgaard is named after her, the name having been proposed by Dutch astronomers C.J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

Boesgaard received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1961 from Mount Holyoke College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. She subsequently became a professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020

Further reading

• Boesgaard, Ann M. One woman's journey. Mercury, v. 21, January/February 1992: 19–22, 37. illus., ports. QB1.M43, v. 21
• Boesgaard, Ann M. In Who's who in technology. 7th ed. Kimberly A. McGrath, editor. New York, Gale Research [1995] page 109. T39.W5 1995
• Morrison, Nancy D., and Andrew Fraknoi. The 1990 A.S.P. awards. The Muhlmann Prize to Ann Boesgaard. Mercury, v. 19, November/December 1990: pages 182–185. illus., port.QB1.M43, v. 19
• Parker, Barry. Ann Boesgaard. In his Stairway to the stars; the story of the world's largest observatory. Drawings by Lori Scoffield. New York, Plenum Press [1994] pages 278–282. port. QB82.U62M387 1994.

External links

• Faculty profile at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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