Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

E. Dorritt Hoffleit (1907–2007), Ph.D.

Photo: Oakes, 2002

At 100th birthday (Photo: http://www.astrosociety.org/ education/resources/womenast_bib02.html)

Dorrit Hoffleit was an astronomer at Yale University, in the Department of Astronomy. She served as Senior Research Astronomer 1969–1975 and was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. The Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Astronomy Research Fellowship at Yale is named in honor of her and her work of more than fifty years in the Department of Astronomy. She also served as director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island for over twenty years, where she organized summer programs for hundreds of students. She was the author of Bright Star Catalog (4th revised ed., 1982) and co-author of General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes. In 1988, she was awarded the George Van Biesbroeck Prize by the American Astronomical Society for a lifetime of service to astronomy.