Williamina Fleming
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 113 years ago |
Date of birth | May 15,1857 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Dundee |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | May 21,1911 |
Died | Boston |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Discovered | Horsehead Nebula |
Field | Astronomy |
Books | Spectra and Photographic Magnitudes of Stars in Standard Regions |
Horsehead Nebula | |
Spectra And Photographic Magnitudes Of Stars In Standard Regions; Volume 71 | |
Job | Astronomer |
Nationality | American |
British | |
Academic advisor | Edward Charles Pickering |
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ID | 457072 |
Williamina Fleming Life story
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish-American astronomer. She was a single mother, hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra.