Adelaide Ames

Adelaide Ames was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. 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. ^{Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932)}

3 June 1900

Born on the same birth date (3 June 1900): Leo Picard

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Charles R. Drew • Conon of Naso • Donald Judd • Flinders Petrie • Françoise Arnoul • Georg von Békésy • Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici • Jan Peerce • Lindy Remigino • Philippe Quinault • Pietro Paolini • Pietro de' Medici • Ramon Jacinto • Ransom E. Olds • Raymond Pearl • Torsten Wiesel

Born in the same month (June 1900): Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • Blanche Noyes • Evelyn Irons • Fred Waring • Georges-Henri Bousquet • Georgia Hale • Lena Baker • Leo Picard • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma • Oskar Fischinger • Otto Luening • Ruth Nanda Anshen • Wilhelm Cauer • Zinaida Aksentyeva