Andrea Dupree

[1] She is a Past-President of the American Astronomical Society, and served as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

[2] Dupree attended Wellesley College and graduated with her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts in 1956.

In 1980, she became the first woman and youngest person to serve as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics.

[5] Dupree is an internationally recognized leader in stellar physics and the bulk of her research is on stars like our own Sun.

[6] She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [7] She received the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award in 2019 and 2020.

Dr. Andrea K. Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the cassegrain focus of the 4-m Mayall telescope of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Kitt Peak, AZ.