Sarah Frances Whiting

Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 – September 12, 1927) was an American physicist and astronomer. She was essential to the founding of the Whitin Observatory at Wellesley College, and was the instructor to several astronomers, including Annie Jump Cannon.
Biography.
Whiting graduated from Ingham University in 1865. 
Whiting was appointed by Wellesley College president Henry Fowle Durant, one year after the College's 1875 opening, as its first professor of physics. She established its physics department and the undergraduate experimental physics lab at Wellesley, the second of its kind to be started in the country. 
At the request of Durant, she attended lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology given by Edward Charles Pickering. He invited Whiting to observe some of the new techniques being applied to astronomy, such as spectroscopy.
In 1880, Whiting started teaching a course of practical astronomy at Wellesley.
In 1895, as told by biographer Annie Jump Cannon,
An especially exciting moment came when the Boston morning papers reported the discovery of the Rontgen or X-rays in 1895. The advanced students in physics of those days will always remember the zeal with which Miss Whiting immediately set up an old Crookes tube and the delight when she actually obtained some of the very first photographs taken in this country of coins within a purse and bones within the flesh.
Between 1896 and 1900, Whiting helped Wellesley College trustee Sarah Elizabeth Whitin to establish the Whitin Observatory, of which Whiting became the first director.
Tufts College bestowed an honorary doctorate on Whiting in 1905.
Sarah Whiting was also known for supporting prohibition.
Whiting retired from Wellesley in 1916 and was a Professor Emeritus until her death in 1927 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. She is buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Le Roy, New York, near her now-defunct alma mater, Ingham University.
Writings.
Whiting wrote the textbook "Daytime and evening exercises in astronomy, for schools and colleges".
She was an author of several articles in popular astronomy, including: 
She also wrote the obituary for Margaret Lindsay Huggins, "Lady Huggins".
She described her experiences in physics in the Wellesley College News article "The experiences of a woman physicist"
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