Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857 – 21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College...

as distance markers in space. Other computers in the team included Williamina Fleming and Florence Cushman. Although these women started primarily as calculators...

on the moon is named after him and the Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming. Mount Fleming in New Zealand's Paparoa Range was named after him in 1970...

named after Alexander and Williamina Fleming. Prior to naming in 1970 by the IAU, this crater was known as Crater 203. Fleming is one of the largest craters...

evident in the achievements accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. However...

College Observatory, in which a team of woman computers, notably Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and Annie Jump Cannon, classified the spectra recorded...

with gas and dust. The nebula was discovered by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming in 1888 on a photographic plate taken at the Harvard College Observatory...

tons due to the size of photographic plates. He also, along with Williamina Fleming and Annie Jump Cannon, designed a stellar classification system based...

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astronomer Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The assistants also included Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury....

disease and dementia Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), Scottish astronomer Bernard Fleming (born 1937), Scottish footballer Brittyn Fleming (born 1999), American...

XP Minamoto no Yorimasa, early samurai MPC · 5744 5747 Williamina 1991 CO3 Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), a Scottish-American astronomer at Harvard College...

Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Williamina Fleming, and Florence Cushman performed pivotal stellar classification research...

1783. In 1910, Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering and Williamina Fleming discovered that, despite being a dim star, 40 Eridani B was of spectral...

College Observatory. The work of classification was led initially by Williamina Fleming and later by Annie Jump Cannon, with contributions from many other...

1890. The prototype star RR Lyrae was discovered prior to 1899 by Williamina Fleming, and reported by Pickering in 1900 as "indistinguishable from cluster-type...

used to refer to it). It was discovered photographically in 1904 by Williamina Fleming (after the New General Catalogue was published), but credit went to...

Antonia Maury (who insisted on a complex classification system) and Williamina Fleming (who was overseeing the project for Pickering, and wanted a much more...

interferometrically to be 0.41 mas, and photometrically to be 0.38 mas. In 1896, Williamina Fleming observed mysterious spectral lines from Zeta Puppis, which fit the...

winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902. May 15 – Williamina Fleming (died 1911), Scottish-born American astronomer. June 28 – Robert Jones...

stars. Hydrogen deficiency in a star was first discovered in 1891 by Williamina Fleming, where she stated “the spectrum of υ Sgr is remarkable since the hydrogen...

Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Agnes Clerke, Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming were made honorary members. In 1886 Isis Pogson was the first woman...

Fleming 1785–1857 naruralist person after whom Fleming Fjord is named Williamina Fleming 1857–1911 astronomer cataloguing of stars contributor, discoverer...

workers to process astronomical data). These "Computers" included Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Florence Cushman and Antonia...

known extragalactic supernova events. The supernova was discovered by Williamina Fleming on December 12, 1895 after noticing an unusual spectrum on a photographic...

discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation of Orion, by Williamina Fleming (1857–1911) The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting...

(United Kingdom, 1646–1719) Honoré Flaugergues (France, 1755–1835) Williamina Fleming (United States, 1857–1911) Wilhelm Julius Foerster (Germany, 1832–1921)...

1833) May 18 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860) May 21 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857) May 23 – John Douglas, English architect...

of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars as NGC 1935, then was observed by Williamina Fleming in 1901 and later added to the Index Catalogue as IC 2126. "Bright...

1919) 1856 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917) 1857 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911) 1859 – Pierre...