Catherine Wolfe Bruce
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Catherine Wolfe Bruce (January 22, 1816 – March 13, 1900, New York) was a noted American philanthropist and patroness of astronomy.
She was the daughter of the famous type founder George Bruce and Catherine Wolfe. In 1887 she donated the George Bruce Free Library. Between 1889 and 1899 she donated money for purchases of telescopes by Harvard College Observatory, Yerkes Observatory and by Max Wolf of Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, among others.
The Bruce Medal is named after her, as well as the asteroid 323 Brucia, and Bruce crater on the Moon.
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