She received a post-doctoral research appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study at

She received a post-doctoral research appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1986 to work on the first Hubble data. She identified unpredicted patterns of stellar brightness and temperature in these gravitationally dynamic regions. Teasing out the history of stellar birth, life and death was Elson’s craft.Rebecca Elson matriculated in 1976, at the age of 16, and continued her education at Smith College, Massachusetts (graduating cum laude), St Andrews University and the University of British Columbia, before taking her doctorate at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, where she won an Isaac Newton Studentship. These systems provide the benchmark for all theories of star formation and evolution. But her principal work focused on globular clusters, massive systems of several hundred thousand stars packed into regions of space only about 10 light years across. Using the deepest image ever taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, Elson and her colleagues at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, were the first to set strong limits on the contribution normal stars could make to the mysterious dark matter surrounding the Milky Way.
She was also a key participant in exploring how galaxies change in shape over cosmic time through the Hubble Medium Deep Survey. REBECCA ELSON was a distinguished astronomer and a well-known poet.

Her work as an astronomer ranged from searching for stars in the halo of our own galaxy to exploring regions of rapid star formation halfway across the Universe. He never lost a campaign, even in 1978 when his opponent, a peanut farmer called Malcolm “Chicken” Wishard, backed by Hugh Carter’s aggrieved aunt Lillian and cousin Billy, campaigned on the slogan “Help the Chicken take the Worm”. But “Cousin Beedie” survived to retire undefeated in 1981.Hugh Alton Carter, politician and worm farmer: born Plains, Georgia 1920; married 1942 Ruth Godwin (one son, two daughters); died Plains 24 June 1999.. The best-known of them, 18 Secrets of Successful Worm Raising, ran into several reprints.

When Carter raised the cover price from $1 to $2.95, the sales just grew faster.Alongside the worm farming and the cashing-in on the family Presidency, Carter also managed a notable local political career. During a 15-year stint as State Senator, he worked hard to improve Georgia’s schools. And when business began to flag at the end of the 1950s, he found an even more lucrative niche as the author of three books on worm farming. However relations between Hugh Carter and Jimmy Carter remained warm until the end.But “Cousin Beedie’s” true claim to fame was as a farmer of crickets, and above all of worms. A passionate fisherman, Carter got into the bait- breeding business in 1949, starting with crickets before diversifying into worms.Such was his success that by the mid-1950s he was calling himself “the world’s largest worm farmer”, producing more than 60 million a year, almost half for export. But, long before his cousin was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980, the store had become an antiques and souvenir store dispensing Carter memorabilia, and its owner had turned into a listed political landmark – controversial family biographer and for visitors to Plains an ever-talkative fount of wisdom on the 39th President.
Hugh was three years older than James, but that did not prevent him writing Cousin Beedie and Cousin Hot, an account of growing up with his famous- to-be relative whose title was taken from their respective childhood nicknames.It created uproar when it appeared in 1978, midway through the single Carter term, because of some unflattering remarks about the President’s “domineering” mother Lillian, and his freewheeling brother Billy (“He’s not a redneck, but can make money as a redneck”).Billy responded by suggesting its author belonged in a mental institution.