Block-Paraskevopoulos, Dorothy W., 1891-1967
Biographical note
"Block graduated with an MA from Columbia University in 1918 and began a new appointment as the Edward C. Pickering Fellow at Harvard College Observatory (HCO) in September for the 1918-1919 academic year. While at HCO, she measured the light of variable stars, the motion and position of several asteroids, as well as the Nova that appeared on June 8, 1918, in the constellation of Aquila. Block’s notebooks capture her work of this period."
Block married John Paraskevopoulos, and the couple moved to Greece. However, the astronomical equipment to which they had access in Greece was not as advanced as that they had used in the United States.
John sought employment elsewhere and was "appointed to direct the Harvard College Observatory’s Southern Station in Arequipa, Peru. He would replace Prof. Solon Irving Bailey, who had not only been responsible for establishing and running the Arequipa station since 1889, but who had also been one of Block’s references when she first applied for a position at Yerkes."
--Source: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/collections/yerkes-plates/women-at-yerkes/dorothy-block-paraskevopoulos/, accessed 2024-05-22