Elizabeth Cornwall Tilley

This article is about Elizabeth Cornwall Tilley. For the star she studied, see 59 Serpentis.

Elizabeth Roberts Cornwall Tilley (née Elizabeth Roberts Cornwall; 1914–1996) was an American astronomer known for her spectrographic study of the multiple star system 59 Serpentis. She earned her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Michigan in 1943. Her doctoral thesis, "A Spectrographic Study of the Triple System in 59 d Serpentis," was supervised by astronomer Dean Benjamin McLaughlin and became a foundational work in understanding this complex stellar system and continues to be cited in astronomical research.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.