The Washington Post, March 9th, 1990
Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, a retired astrophysicist at the Bureau of Standards and an authority on the study of atomic energy levels in outer space, died March 3 at her home in Washington after a heart attack. Dr. Sitterly compiled three volumes of atomic spectroscopic data published between 1949 and 1957. The tables have become a worldwide standard reference for analyzing and interpreting light emitted or absorbed by the sun, stars and interstellar gases, and are used in such fields as astronomy, laser physics and spectral chemistry. After retiring in 1968, she was a consultant at the Bure...
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