Adelaide Ames

Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of ''A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude'', which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog. Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. She was a contemporary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her closest friend at the observatory.

Ames died in a boating accident in 1932, the same year the ''Shapley-Ames'' catalog was published. Provided by Wikipedia