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Erika Böhm-Vitense

German-American astronomer · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1923 to 2017 · aged 93

Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense was a German-born American astrophysicist known for her work on Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atmospheres.

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