Leah Allen

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.

• Hope Street School, 1902
• Brown University, 1904–1906, special work in astronomy under Professor Winslow Upton
• Wellesley College, M.A. 1912

• https://archive.org/stream/reportofpresiden3202well/reportofpresiden3202well_djvu.txt

• Leah B. Allen Award for Excellence in Math and Science, Hood College
• Leah B. Allen Prize in Astronomy, Hood College

• Annie Jump Cannon
• William F. Meggers

• http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990023.html
• http://www.aip.org/history/ead/19990074.html

• American Astronomical Society
• AAVSO, Charter Member

• The Fifty-seventh Meeting of the AAS was held at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, from Monday to Wednesday, December 28–30, 1936 at the invitation of Leah B. Allen, Professor of Astronomy. http://www.aas.org/had/aashistory/7bmtg02c.html
• Dorrit Hoffleit "The Maria Mitchell Observatory:For Astronomical Research and Public Enlightenment"JAAVSO Volume30, 2001, p70" http://www.aavso.org/publications/ejaavso/v30n1/62.pdf

• "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