Adelaide Ames, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American astronomer
Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1900
Place of Birth: Rock Island, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jun-1932
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Adelaide Ames
- Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900 – June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University.
- 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.
- She was interred at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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