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At 2020/02/03 22:22 Pamela Gill Byrne wrote:
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Hello! Edith and Mabel Gill were my great aunts. I can identify them for you in these (and other) photos. Would love to be able to see these in person. Is there someplace where these are on display? Thank you so much!
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At 2024/09/13 13:41 JSeyfert wrote:
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My grandmother was Muriel Mussels (later Seyfert when she married my grandfather Carl Seyfert). She was a computer, according to Wikipedia in/around 1936. I'd like to know much more about her, for example for how long was she a computer. Was she under Pickering? My grandfather is not listed in your names. Perhaps he came later? I know he worked with Shapley. I'm interested in any info you have about Muriel.
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At 2024/09/13 15:47 wrote:
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I don't know much about her, I've mostly researched the earlier history. There's a library web page on her here: https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/muriel-e-seyfert You could also contact Project Phaedra: https://library.cfa.harvard.edu/project-phaedra; and also harvardplatestacks@cfa.harvard.edu. You've probably seen this image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/8492387416/ There was also a Sylvia Mussels Lindsey at the observatory a few years earlier (she was there in 1929). Maybe she's related?
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