Belserene dalibi ne a New Rochelle High School, kuma an ba shi cikakken malanta zuwa Kwalejin Smith.[1]Ta zama daliba tilo a fannin ilmin taurari a wurin,tare da masanin falaki Clinton B. Ford a matsayin mai ba da shawara.[2]Ta sauke karatu summa cum laude[3]a cikin 1943,kuma ta tafi Jami'ar Columbia don karatun digiri na ɗan lokaci yayin da a lokaci guda ke haɓaka dangi da koyarwa na ɗan lokaci a Kwalejin Hunter. [4]

Ta kammala Ph.D.a shekarar 1953. Rubutun ta,Canje-canje na Taurari masu canzawa a cikin Messier 3,Martin Schwarzschild ne ke kula da shi.[5]Ya ƙunshi abubuwan lura ta amfani da na'urar hangen nesa mai inch 36 a Lick Observatory a California;ko da yake an dade ana amfani da wannan na'urar hangen nesa,tare da hasken farko a 1888, Belserene ita ce mace ta farko da ta fara amfani da shi.[4]

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