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Agnes Mary Hoovens Brooks (July 7, 1901-November 4, 1976)1 worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a Pickering Fellow from 1925-1926.

Marian Alberta Hawes Henry (September 8th, 1893 – December 11, 1968) was an astronomer and professor who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1912-1918 and later taught at several institutions throughout the United States.

Alta May Carpenter (June 8, 1878 – 1945) worked as one of the Women Astronomical Computers at the Harvard College Observatory from 1906 until 1920.

Amy Jackson McKay (ca. 1870-1907) worked as a Computer and Assistant at the Harvard College Observatory from 1891-1906.

Anne Atwood Pickering worked with the Harvard College Observatory in various ways from 1891-1924.1 She assisted with the management of Harvard’s Boyden Observatory in Peru and with the Harvard-affiliated Woodlawn observational station in Jamaica.

Head computer at Columbia University’s observatory

Harvard Observatory astronomer

Director of the Vassar College Observatory in the early 1900s