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One measure of Amelia Wehlau’s intelligence is the way she would blurt out the answers to Trivial Pursuit questions, even when she wasn’t playing.
Another is how, in 1953, she completed her doctorate in astronomy at the age of 23.
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Yet another was her observation, a few years later, while comparing photographs, of a star missing from a 13-billion-year-old cluster. She had discovered a nova in a cluster photograph, something no astronomer had done before, let alone a young research assistant.