Leah Allen

Leah Brown Allen was an American astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Hood College.

She joined Lick Observatory as Carnegie Assistant in 1908. [Mary Proctor. [http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn85066387/1908-08-23/ed-1/seq-2 "Halley's Comet after 75 years rushes Earthward again"] , San Francisco Call, August 23, 1908.] Professor Allen began teaching astronomy at Hood in 1928. [ http://www.hood.edu/adminservices/news.cfm?featureID=2031]

Education

* Hope Street School, 1902
* Brown University, 1904-1906, special work in astronomy under Professor Winslow Upton [Mary Proctor. [http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn85066387/1908-08-23/ed-1/seq-2 "Halley's Comet after 75 years rushes Earthward again"] , San Francisco Call, August 23, 1908.]
* Wellesley College, M.A. 1912 [http://www.archive.org/stream/reportofpresiden3202well/reportofpresiden3202well_djvu.txt]

Prizes named in her honor

* Leah B. Allen Award for Excellence in Math and Science, Hood College
* Leah B. Allen Prize in Astronomy, Hood College

Correspondents

* Annie Jump Cannon [http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990023.html]
* William F. Meggers [http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990074.html]

Memberships

* American Astronomical Society [The Fifty-seventh Meeting of the AAS was held at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, from Monday to Wednesday, December 28-30, 1936 at the invitation of Leah B. Allen, Professor of Astronomy. http://www.aas.org/had/aashistory/7bmtg02c.html]
* AAVSO, Charter Member [Dorrit Hoffleit "The Maria Mitchell Observatory:For Astronomical Research and Public Enlightenment"JAAVSO Volume30, 2001, p70" http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/v30n1/62.pdf]

Publications

* "A study of the peculiar spectrum of the star Eta Centauri" (Master's thesis, 1912) [http://luna.wellesley.edu/search/aAllen%2C+Leah+Brown/aallen+leah+brown/-3,-1,0,B/browse is held in the Wellesley College Archives] .
* The radial velocities of twenty southern variable stars of class Me ; A study of the changes in the spectrum of T Centauri (Lick Observatory bulletin) University of California Press (1925) [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/35313436 WorldCat]

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