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New Zealand Mountain Named in Honor of Yale Astronomer

Acclaimed by her peers in the United States as “possibly the greatest woman scientist of the 20th century” and known in her native New Zealand as a “world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians in modern astronomy,” the late Yale astronomer Beatrice Tinsley has certainly earned a place in the annals of history.

Now she’s earned a place in the World Atlas as well. (more…)

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