Betty Louise Turtle

Betty Louise Turtle (née Webster [kuma Webster a cikin ayyukan da aka buga]) (20 Mayu 1941 - 29 Satumba 1990) masanin taurari ne kuma masanin kimiyyar Australiya. A shekara ta 1971, tare da abokin aikinta Paul Murdin, ta gano tushen X-ray mai ƙarfi Cygnus X-1 a matsayin dan takara na farko don rami mai duhu.￼

 Ayyuka 
Ta halarci Jami'ar Adelaide kuma ta ci gaba da karatu a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin ɗalibai na farko a makarantar digiri na Mount Stromlo Observatory, a waje da Canberra inda masu binciken taurari na Amurka Bart Bok da Priscilla Fairfield Bok suka rinjaye ta sosai. Ta sami Ph.D. a shekarar 1967 a kan batun nebulae na kudancin duniya yayin da take aiki tare da masanin tauraron dan adam na Sweden Bengt Westerlund . Ta koma Jami'ar Wisconsin kafin ta dauki matsayi a Royal Greenwich Observatory a Herstmonceux Castle, da farko a matsayin Jami'in Kimiyya sannan Babban Jami'in kimiyya. Ta yi aiki tare da Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal, sannan kuma Paul Murdin, tare da wanda aka zabe ta zuwa Royal Astronomical Society a lokaci guda a 1963.

Turtle da Murdin sun yi taka tsantsan game da harshen takarda da suka gabatar a cikin mujallar Nature da ke kwatanta bincikensu, mai taken Cygnus X-1 - Binary na Spectroscopic tare da Aboki Mai Girma? tare da kalmomin ƙarshe, "...yana iya zama ramin baki. " Maigidan su, Woolley, ya fi ra'ayin mazan jiya a matsayin masanin taurari kuma abokan aiki sun nuna yadda suke taka tsantsan, kodayake wasu masanan taurari (musamman Charles Thomas Bolton) sun yarda da su.
Ayyukanta a Sussex sun kai tsaye ga aikawa a Cibiyar Nazarin Astronomical ta Afirka ta Kudu, inda Woolley ya zama darektan daga 1972, sannan kuma sabon Telescope na Anglo-Australian mai mita 3.9 a cikin rawar kwamishina kafin ya zama ma'aikacin astronomer a can.Storey, J.W.V.; Faulkner, D.J. (1991). "Betty Louise Turtle, 1941-1990". Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 9 (1).

A shekara ta 1978, ta sami aikinta na ƙarshe a Jami'ar New South Wales a fannin kimiyyar lissafi; a watan Nuwamba na wannan shekarar ta auri Tony Turtle . Yayinda take jami'a, ita ce mai motsawa ga Automated Patrol Telescope a Siding Spring Observatory, ta gabatar da karatun shekara ta huɗu ga masu binciken taurari, ta yi aiki ko ta jagoranci kwamitoci da yawa kuma ta inganta ilimin taurari sosai ta hanyar Ƙungiyar Astronomical ta Duniya da Ƙungiyar Astronomy ta Ostiraliya. Storey, J.W.V.; Faulkner, D.J. (1991). "Betty Louise Turtle, 1941-1990". Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 9 (1).

Ta mutu bayan dogon rashin lafiya a gidanta a Paddington, Sydney .

 Kyauta 
Ƙyautar Bok, wacce ake bayarwa a kowace shekara ga dalibai don ƙwarewa a cikin bincike, an gabatar da ita ne a kan Turtle, kuma Cibiyar Astronomical Society of Australia da Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Australiya ne ke tallafawa. Don girmama gudummawar da ta bayar ga ilimin taurari, an ba da kyautar Louise Webster a kowace shekara tun daga shekara ta 2009 ta hanyar Astronomical Society of Australia don ba da lada ga kyakkyawan bincike na postdoctoral a farkon aikin masanin kimiyya.Storey, J.W.V.; Faulkner, D.J. (1991). "Betty Louise Turtle, 1941-1990". Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 9 (1).


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