title: Leah Allen
text: Leah Brown Allen (November 6, 1884 in Providence, Rhode Island – February 1973) was an American astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Hood College.
  
  She joined Lick Observatory as Carnegie Assistant in 1908. Professor Allen began teaching astronomy at Hood in 1928.
  
  Education
  She studied at Hope Street School, 1902.
  Then at Brown University, 1904–1906, special work in astronomy under Professor Winslow Upton.
  She received her M.A. from Wellesley College in 1912.
  
  Prizes named in her honor
   Leah B. Allen Award for Excellence in Math and Science, Hood College
   Leah B. Allen Prize in Astronomy, Hood College
  
  Correspondents
   Annie Jump Cannon
   William F. Meggers
  
  Memberships
   American Astronomical Society
   AAVSO, Charter Member
  
  Publications
   "A study of the peculiar spectrum of the star Eta Centauri"  (Master's thesis, 1912)  is held in the Wellesley College Archives .
   The radial velocities of twenty southern variable stars of class Me ; A study of the changes in the spectrum of T Centauri (Lick Observatory bulletin) University of California Press (1925) WorldCat
  
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  1884 births
  1973 deaths
  American women astronomers
  20th-century American women scientists
  Wellesley College alumni
  Brown University alumni
  Hood College faculty
  Whitin Observatory
  20th-century American astronomers
  American women academics