Elected unanimously, Maria Mitchell became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An astronomer, she had discovered a telescopic comet during her observations on Nantucket, Massachusetts the previous October. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 40.
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