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Sethanne Howard is a retired American research astronomer and physicist. She most recently worked as the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. [1] She is also a published author.
Howard attended the University of California, Davis from 1962 to 1965 and became the first woman to receive a Bachelor of Science degree (BS) in Physics from UCD. She continued her education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1967 to 1974 and received a Master of Science (MS) degree in Nuclear physics. She went on to receive her PhD in astrophysics at Georgia State University from 1984 to 1989. [2]
Howard worked as a visiting professor at Emory University in the Department of Physics as an astronomy professor from September 1985 to May 1986. She conducted post-doctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory with the Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group from January 1989 to January 1991. Following her post-doctoral research, she worked at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center as a DBA for the Gamma Ray Observatory from January 1991 to January 1994. Continuing her work at NASA, she worked at the NASA Headquarters as an Astrophysics MO&DA from January 1995 to January 1998. Following her work at NASA, she worked at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) as a Program Officer for extra-galactic astronomy and cosmology from January 1998 to January 2000. Afterwards she worked as the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory from January 2000 until she retired in April 2004. [1] Post-retirement, she has continued to serve as secretary for the Dynamical Division of Astronomy (DDA), from 2012 to 2015, and was the editor for the Journal for the Washington Academy of Sciences soliciting papers, reviewing, editing, and publishing from 2006 to the 2022. [2]
Her hobby is the history of women in science. Her book is called "The Hidden Giants" available from Amazon. The web site is out of date http://4kyws.ua.edu hosted by the University of Alabama. Her public talk on this is "4000 Years of Women in Science".
Howard has 75 research publications and 812 total citations. [1] She was published in May 2020 by the Washington Academy of Science Journal alongside Gene Byrd for their research on NGC 4622: Unusual Spiral Density Waves and Calculated Disk surface Density. [1] She gave a talk at the 2025 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Howard is also an author and has published The Hidden Giants, [4] which discusses the history of women in science, which dates back 4,000 years ago published in 2006. She authored a children's book, The Invisible Rabbit and the Invisible Carrot [5] Bar published in 2008.
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