A biographical sketch of Maria Mitchell, complete with a directory of other resources.

Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Few women have been able to break through prejudice and stereotype to become noted scientists the way Maria did. She was the first to discover a comet with the use of a telescope and was the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the American Philosophical Society. She was a professor of astronomy at Vassar and had a crater on the moon named for her.