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    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...
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    as distance markers in space. Other computers in the team included Williamina Fleming and Florence Cushman. Although these women started primarily as calculators...
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    named after Alexander Fleming and the Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming. Mount Fleming in New Zealand's Paparoa Range was named after him in 1970...
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    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...
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    College Observatory, in which a team of woman computers, notably Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and Annie Jump Cannon, classified the spectra recorded...
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    a horse's head. The nebula was discovered by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming in 1888 on a photographic plate taken at the Harvard College Observatory...
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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....
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  • disease and dementia Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), Scottish astronomer Bernard Fleming (born 1937), Scottish footballer Brittyn Fleming (born 1999), American...
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    pp. 106–108, Hearnshaw 1986. "Williamina Fleming". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 10 June 2020. "Williamina Paton Fleming -". www.projectcontinua.org. Retrieved...
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    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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    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...
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    evident in the achievements accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt. However...
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  • Albania-1 ÑuSat-33, Albania-2 ÑuSat-34, Amelia Earhart ÑuSat-35, Williamina Fleming Falcon 9 Block 5 Cape Canaveral, United States 3 January 2023 ÑuSat-36...
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    Antonia Maury (who insisted on a complex classification system) and Williamina Fleming (who was overseeing the project for Pickering, and wanted a much more...
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    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...
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  • College Observatory. The work of classification was led initially by Williamina Fleming and later by Annie Jump Cannon, with contributions from many other...
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    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...
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  • (United Kingdom, 1646–1719) Honoré Flaugergues (France, 1755–1835) Williamina Fleming (United States, 1857–1911) Wilhelm Julius Foerster (Germany, 1832–1921)...
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  • 1919) 1856 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917) 1857 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911) 1859 – Pierre...
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    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...
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    1833) May 18 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860) May 21 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857) May 23 – John Douglas, English architect...
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  • Fleming 1785–1857 naruralist person after whom Fleming Fjord is named Williamina Fleming 1857–1911 astronomer cataloguing of stars contributor, discoverer...
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    recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932) May 15 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (d. 1911) May 19 – John Jacob Abel, American...
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    workers to process astronomical data). These "Computers" included Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Florence Cushman and Antonia...
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    1851. In 1910, Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, and Williamina Fleming discovered that, despite being a dim star, 40 Eridani B was of spectral...
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    Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Agnes Clerke, Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming were made honorary members. In 1886 Isis Pogson was the first woman...
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    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...
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    Arae 1910, is a nova in the constellation Ara. It was discovered by Williamina Fleming on a Harvard Observatory photographic plate taken on April 4, 1910...
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  • after Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan Fleming 1 is a planetary nebula in Centaurus, named after Williamina Fleming Gum Nebula (Gum 12) is an emission nebula...
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    known extragalactic supernova events. The supernova was discovered by Williamina Fleming on December 12, 1895 after noticing an unusual spectrum on a photographic...
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