Williamina Fleming, scottish maid who became an astronomer
MAY 22, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020112
The Scotsman :Today in 1911 saw the death by pneumonia of astronomer Williamina Fleming . Fleming was born Williamina Stevens in Dundee in 1857; she married and moved to the US when she was 21. She was employed as amaid to Professor Pickering of Harvard University who, disappointed with his assistants, declared his maid could do a better job and promptly hired her. Fleming helped catalogue over 10,000 stars and discovered 222 herself. She was made an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society in London in 1906
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