* Astronomy

Martha Betz Shapley, (3 August 1890, Kansas City, Missouri - 26 January 1981, Tucson, Ariz) was an astronomer. She graduate from the University of Missouri, and was an was an authority on eclipsing binary stars.
Martha Betz married Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) in April 1914, and assisted her husband in astronomical research at Mount Wilson Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.
Her works are: Study of the Light-Curve of XX Cygni (with Harlow Shapley, 1915); Color-Curve of XZ Cygni, (1917); and, Orbit of the Eclipsing Binary T W Andromedae (1922).
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