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Vicki Noonan

Australian who worked on the Astrographic Catalogue at Melbourne Observatory from 1907 to 1909.

Lillian Emblad Lewis

Astrographic measurer and computer from 1898 to 1903 at the Melbourne Observatory

Muriel Agnes Heagney

Australian pioneer of women’s rights and equal pay, a feminist and trade unionist and astrographic measurer and computer at Melbourne Observatory from November 1906 until August 1910

Margaretha van Godewijk

Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.

Anna Winlock

Distinguished American astronomer and a notable member of the pioneering female computer group known as “the Harvard Computers.”

Marie-Jeanne de Lalande

Renowned French astronomer and mathematician.

Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg

American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research on globular clusters and variable stars.

Distinguished Chilean astronomer; the first woman to receive Chile’s National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female astrophysics doctorate from Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.