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Erika Böhm-Vitense

German-american astronomer.

Born June 3rd, 1923 in Curau. [ref]

Died January 21st, 2017 at 93 years old in Seattle. [ref]

Occupations
astronomer, university teacher

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi