Antonia Maury - Awards

Awards

In 1943, Antonia Maury was awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society. The lunar crater Maury is shared with and was co-named for Antonia Maury with it having previously been named only for her cousin, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Navy. It is, perhaps, the only lunar crater shared by two cousins.

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