Isabel Martin Lewis
The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Eleanor Annie Lamson
The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Mary Parsons
English blacksmith, photographer and ancestor of the founders of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Vera C Rubin
Groundbreaking American astronomer
Dr Joan Feynman
Astrophysicist who studied auroras
Dr Li-Wei Hung
Dr Hung studies night sky brightness.
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.