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17 mag 2024 · Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (born May 15, 1857, Dundee, Tayside [now in Dundee], Scotland—died May 21, 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American astronomer who pioneered in the classification of stellar spectra. Mina Stevens was educated in public schools and from age 14 was a teacher as well as student.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
15 mag 2024 · Williamina (Mina) Paton Stevens Fleming. Frequentò le scuole a Dundee e fin dall’età di 14 anni, mentre era ancora studente, insegnava in scuole primarie. Sposò giovanissima James Orr Fleming e si trasferirono a Boston, Massachusetts, quando aveva 21 anni. Il marito però l’abbandonò un anno dopo quando aspettava il primo figlio, Edward.
23 mag 2024 · Williamina Fleming classified most of the spectra in this catalogue and was credited with classifying over 10,000 featured stars and discovering 10 novae and more than 200 variable stars. With the help of the Harvard computers , especially Williamina Fleming , the first iteration of the Henry Draper catalogue was devised to replace ...
From Newbery Honor–winning author Kathryn Lasky comes a nonfiction picture book the inspiring true story of astronomer Williamina Fleming, who helped lay the foundations for modern astronomy and overcame impossible odds as an immigrant and a woman.
- Kathryn Lasky
- 0062849301
- Julianna Swaney
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5 mag 2024 · Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of ...
23 mag 2024 · Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who ...
9 mag 2024 · Beginning in the 1880s, astronomers at Harvard College such as Edward Pickering, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury had succeeded in classifying stars according to their spectra into seven types: O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
