Dorrit Hoffleit
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Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit (usually known as Dorrit Hoffleit) is a senior research astronomer at Yale University. She was born on March 12, 1907, in Florence, Alabama. She is author of the Bright Star Catalogue, a compendium of information on the 9,110 brightest stars in the sky; she also co-authored The General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, containing precise distance measurements to 8,112 stars, information critical to understanding the kinematics of the Milky Way galaxy and the evolution of the solar neighborhood. In 1988, Hoffleit was awarded the George Van Biesbroeck Prize by the American Astronomical Society for a lifetime of service to astronomy.Template:Astronomer-stub