Mary E. Byrd

Ilimi 
A ƙarshen karni na 19 yana da matukar wahala ga mace ta sami ilimi mai zurfi. Mary Byrd malama ce,a kai da waje,yayin ƙoƙarin samun ilimi.Byrd ya sauke karatu daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Leavenworth.Ta halarci Kwalejin Oberlin daga 1871 zuwa 1874,lokacin da John Millott Ellis ya kasance shugaban kwaleji. Ta bar Oberlin kafin ta kammala karatunta kuma ta sauke karatu daga Jami'ar Michigan tare da BA a 1878.A 1879 Byrd ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar makarantar sakandaren Wabash a Indiana har zuwa 1882,lokacin da ta bar karatun ilimin taurari a Harvard College Observatory karkashin Dr.EC Pickering. Ta sami digiri na Doctor of Falsafa daga Kwalejin Carleton a 1904.

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