Elizabeth Beckley

Elizabeth Beckley (c.1846-1927) was a pioneering British astronomical photographer.
She was the daughter of Robert Beckley, a mechanical engineer based at Kew Observatory, who developed the Robinson-Beckley anemometer with Thomas Romney Robinson.
Beckley worked at Kew Observatory, where she was one of the first women to work at an astronomical observatory. She photographed the sun in the 1860s and 1870s using a [[solar telescope|photoheliograph]].
Beckley married fellow Kew Observatory employee George Matthew Whipple. They had two sons. The elder, [[Robert Stewart Whipple|Robert Whipple]], was a scientific instrument collector, and founded the [[Whipple Museum of the History of Science]] in Cambridge, while the younger, [[Francis John Welsh Whipple|Francis Whipple]], was superintendent of Kew Observatory from 1925 to 1939.
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