Hellman, Clarisse Doris, 1910-1973 (Personal Name)

LCCN a45-407: Her The comet of 1577, 1944 (hdg.: Hellman, Clarisse Doris, 1910- ; usage: Clarisse Doris Hellman)

LC data base, 2-2-87 (hdg.: Hellman, Clarisse Doris, 1910- ; usage: C. Doris Hellman)

NUCMC data from Amer. Jewish Archives for Bloom family papers, 1875-1980 (Clarisse Doris Hellman, daughter of Alfred M. Hellman and Clarisse (Bloom) Hellman, was born on Aug. 28, 1910 in New York City. She was known as Doris to her close friends and family. After graduating from the Horace Mann School, she attended Vassar College, where she studied mathematics and astronomy and graduated with honors in 1930. She then went on to Radcliffe College as a Vassar College Fellow and received one of the country's earliest advanced degrees in history of science, a master's degree, in 1931. From Radcliffe, she returned to New York, where she received a prestigious Columbia University Fellowship and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Columbia in 1943. In 1933, she married a prominent New York attorney, Morton Pepper, and together they raised two daughters, Alice (b. 1937) and Carol (b. 1940). Clarisse Doris Hellman died in New York City, on Mar. 28, 1973)