Born: 1863, United States
Died: 13 April 1917
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Elizabeth Preston Brown
The following is excerpted from What Women Have Done for Astronomy in the United States, written by Anne P McKenney and published in Popular Astronomy, vol. 12, pp.171-182 in 1904.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davis: studied mathematics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Here she met Professor Davis, an astronomer, whom she afterwards married. She was interested in mathematical calculations, but her principal work was her calculations for a number of years and even at the present of the Ephemeres of the Sun for the Nautical Almanac. She also did some miscellaneous work on comet-orbits. From time to time she has done work at the Observatories of Yale, Smith and Goodsell. She at one time held the position of professor of mathematics at the Naval Observatory at Washington.
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