COVID-19 claims trail-blazing London astronomer 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.
Author of the article: Dan Brown
Publishing date: Apr 19, 2021 • 1 day ago • 3 minute read Amelia Wehlau was a path-breaker in astronomy, a former colleague at Western University said. Wehlau earned a doctorate in the 1950s when few women were in the field.
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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.
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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.
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