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Name
  
Erika Bohm-Vitense

Role
  
Astronomer


Education
  
University of Kiel

Erika Böhm-Vitense Remembering Prof Erika BhmVitense Department of Astronomy

Institutions
  
University of Washington, Seattle

Academic advisors
  
Ludwig Biermann, Albrecht Unsold

Spouse
  
Karl-Heinz Hermann Bohm

Books
  
Introduction to Stellar Astrophys, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics:, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics

Institution
  
University of Washington

Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense (June 3, 1923 – January 21, 2017) was a German-born American astronomer known for her work on Cepheid variables and stellar atmospheres. She received her doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1951 and is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington. In 1965, she was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.

She authored three volumes of introductory astrophysics texts first published in 1989.

References

Erika Böhm-Vitense Wikipedia