'''Sarah Frances Whiting''' ([[August 23]], [[1847]] – [[September 12]], [[1927]]), [[United States|US]] [[physicist]] and [[astronomer]], was the instructor to several astronomers, including [[Annie Jump Cannon]].
Whiting graduated from [[Ingham College]] in [[1865]]. She visited [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] as its first female physics student. While there, she observed their undergraduate [[physics]] labs.
Whiting joined [[Wellesley College]] in [[1876]] as its first professor of physics. She established their physics department and the undergraduate physics labs at Wellesley, the second of its kind to be started in the country. In her teaching, she introduced the [[laboratory]] method.
While at MIT, Whiting met a physics professor named [[Edward Pickering]]. In [[1877]], Pickering left MIT to become the director of the [[Harvard College Observatory]]. He invited Whiting to observe some of the new techniques being applied to astronomy, such as [[spectroscopy]]. In [[1880]], Whiting started teaching a course on Practical Astronomy at Wellesley.
In [[1900]], Whiting helped to establish the Wellesley College observatory, [[Whitin Observatory]]. Whiting then she became its first director.
In [[1905]], Whiting received an honorary doctorate from [[Tufts College]]. Whiting also was known for supporting [[prohibition]].
Whiting retired from Wellesley in [[1916]] and was a Professor Emerita until her death in 1927.
[[Category:1847 births|Whiting, Sarah Frances]]
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[[Category:American astronomers|Whiting, Sarah Frances]]
[[Category:Physicists|Whiting, Sarah Frances]]
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