Harvard Computers
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The Harvard Computers were multiple generations of women working as skilled workers and astronomers to process astronomical data primarily from photographic plates at the Harvard College Observatory i
The Harvard Computers standing in front of Building C at the Harvard College Observatory, 13 May 1913
The Harvard Computers pictured on the south side of the second floor of the long computing room in 1891.
Harvard Computers at work, circa 1890, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt seated, third from left, with magnifying glass (1868–1921), Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941), Williamina Fleming standing, at center (1857–1911), and Antonia Maury (1866–1952)
Williamina Fleming
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish astronomer. At the Harvard College Observatory, she contributed to the photographic classification of stellar spectra, helping to develop a common desig
Harvard Computers
…College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Created during the tenure of Edward Charles Pickering (1877 to 1919) and, first headed by Williamina Fleming then Annie Jump Cannon. The women were challenged to make sense of these patterns by devising a scheme for sorting the stars into categories. Annie…
Fleming, c. 1890s
Fleming, center right, at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910