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Who was Dilhan Eryurt?
Professor Doctor Dilhan Eryurt was born November 29, 1926, in Izmir in the west of Turkey.
But she did not remain in her home city for long, moving firstly to Istanbul and then to the nation's capital of Ankara.
It was in high school there that she picked up a love for mathematics, eventually going on to study in the subject at university - only to gain an interest in astronomy.
After completing her studies, Eryurt helped open an astronomy department at Ankara University, before getting her doctorate there in 1953 after spending time at the University of Michigan.
She later had a two-year scholarship in Canada, the professor headed for the US, firstly to Indiana University, before working at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
At the time, Eryurt was the only female astronomer working at the institution - and she made great breakthroughs in relation to the solar system's biggest star.
She learnt that the brightness of the Sun had decreased during its 4.5 billion years lifespan, meaning it was warmer and brighter in the past.
This influenced research into space flights at the time - before later receiving the Apollo Achievement Award for her work in helping to model the solar impact on the lunar environment for Apollo 11's Moon landing mission.
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