Nancy Roman

Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer. She was one of the first female executives at NASA. She was known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.

Nancy Roman
Nancy Roman in 2015
Born	(1925-05-16)May 16, 1925 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	December 25, 2018(2018-12-25) (aged 93) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Swarthmore College, University of Chicago
Known for	Planning of the Hubble Space Telescope
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, NASA, Naval Research Laboratory

Roman died on December 25, 2018 in Washington, D.C. from a long-illness at the age of 93.

Nancy Roman Media

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  Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, is shown at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, around 1972.

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  Nancy Grace Roman in her NASA office in the 1960s

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  Roman with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory in 1962

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  Roman sits at the control console for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory satellite, launched in 1972 and nicknamed Copernicus. This is a publicity picture; she never actually worked in the Goddard control room.

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  Nancy Grace Roman with COBE Project Scientist John Mather in 2017

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  Dr. Nancy Grace Roman with a model of the Large Space Telescope that was eventually developed as the Hubble Space Telescope. While listed as a 1966 photo, this design was not the standard until the mid-1970s.

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  Nancy Grace Roman with Women of Hubble

Other websites

• Oral History interview transcript with Nancy G. Roman 19 August 1980, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
• [1] Archived 2014-11-02 at the Wayback Machine