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Alice Everett, (1865 - 29 July 1949) was both an accomplished astronomer and, in her retirement, a pioneer in the development of television.

Biography
Alice Everett was born in 1865 in Glasgow and moved to Belfast, Ireland, when she was 2 years old when her father, Joseph David Everett FRS (1831-1904), a physicist and mathematician took up his post as Professor of Natural History at Queen's College Belfast, which later became Queen's University Belfast. Alice attended Methodist College, a co-educational school in Belfast. In 1882 Queen's University Belfast allowed women students for the first time to attend lectures to prepare and enter for the Royal University of Ireland entrance examination. In 1884 Alice Everett took first place in the scholarship examination in science. She was not permitted to take up the scholarship as the University then decided that females were not eligible for this scholarship. This rule was amended by Queen's University in 1895. She went to Girton College Cambridge in 1886, aged 21 along with Annie Scott Dill Russell, also from Belfast. She was awarded a Master of Arts Degree by the Royal UNiversity of Ireland in 1889. In January 1890, she became the first female "computer" to be appointed to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich by Sir William Christie, The Astronomer Royal. This lowly role usually involved executing laborious numerical calculations and had previously been taken by schoolboys of leaving age, 13 or 14 years old. She was paid £4 per month in this role. While at Greenwich, she worked on the Carte du Ciel project.

Death
She died on 29 July 1949, aged 89.

References and external links

 * The entry for Alice Everett in the chapter entitled Torch-bearing Women Astronomers by Dr Maire Bruck, from the book Lab Coats and Lace (edited by Mary Mulvihill) is informative and contains further information
 * Maire Bruck http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1994IrAJ...21..281B&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

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