Martha Locke Hazen

[1] Martha Locke Hazen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Belmont.

[1] Her thesis foscused on how the intensities of elliptical galaxies within the Virgo cluster were distributed.

[3] Martha was a research fellow at Harvard College Observatory, observing in Chile for 3 weeks every year.

[1] As part of her role she helped organise the first Space for Women conference in 1975.

[1] Additionally, she helped remove gender bias from the bylaws of American Astronomical Society.