Antonia Ferrín Moreiras

✶May 13, 1914

†August 6, 2009

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Antonia Ferrín Moreiras was a mathematician, professor and the first female Galician astronomer. Her main contributions to astronomy were works on stellar occultations by the moon, measures of double stars and astrometric measurements, as well as the determination of the passage of stars through two verticals. She accomplished all of this while she was working at the Observatory of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).

Mathematician and astronomer (1914-2009)

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Biography from the article Antonia Ferrín Moreiras on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.