Mary Adele Blagg
British astronomer
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Agnes Giberne
British astronomer
Alice Grace Cook
British astronomer
Elizabeth Brown
British astronomer
Ella K Church
British astronomer
Fiammetta Wilson
British astronomer
Margaret G Kivelson
American astrophysicist
Jeanne Dumée
In her 1680 manuscript on Copernican and Galilean theories, astronomer Jeanne Dumée included an apology for writing on a subject considered “too delicate work for persons of her sex.”
Elizabeth Langdon Williams
The discovery of Pluto would not have been possible without mathematician Elizabeth Williams.
Isis Pogson
Though a few women had been elected as honorary members, Isis Pogson was the first woman to try to join the Royal Astronomical Society as a fellow. She was admitted almost thirty-five years later, in 1920, after the society finally changed the rules.