Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932) [1]
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.