Fact 1
She received a gold medal from King Frederick VII of Denmark for her discovery of a comet in 1847. The comet is called the Maria Mitchell Comet.
Fact 2
After her death, she was inducted into the United States National Women's Hall of Fame.
Fact 3
Her telescope can be found in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.
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Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars
was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet
was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register
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