[2] The Bautz–Morgan classification of galaxy clusters is named for her work with William Wilson Morgan, published in 1970.
After starting her education at a college that discouraged her from taking any mathematics, Bautz transferred to Vanderbilt University.
[1] She majored in physics there, graduating in 1961,[2] and beginning her study of astronomy with a course taken in the final year of her undergraduate program.
[1] Her dissertation, Models for Carbon-Oxygen Stars of One Solar Mass in the Late Stages of Evolution,[4] involved the simulation of white dwarf stars, originally under the supervision of Donald Edward Osterbrock and later with John S.
[1] She became an astronomy instructor at Northwestern University in 1965, before completing her doctorate, and was promoted to associate professor in 1967.