Mary Anna Draper
Astronomer and philanthropist who funded the work of the Harvard Observatory
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Charlotte Richards Willard
American astronomer
Mary Tarbox
Astronomer Mary Tarbox published observations of minor planets and is now employed at Columbia University.
Elizabeth Davis
Astronomer and mathematician who did calculations on the Ephemeres of the Sun for the Nautical Almanac and work on comet orbits.
F Gertrude Wentworth
Astronomer who worked on astronomical computation of a difficult and refined order
Alice Maxwell Lamb
Assistant astronomer in the Washburn Observatory from June 1885 to September 1887, among other roles
Sarah Elizabeth Pratt Whitin
Philanthropist who funded the building of the Observatory at Wellesley College
Dorothea Klumpke
American astronomer who became the head of the bureau for the measurements of the plates of the Astro-photographic Catalogue at the Paris Observatory.
Kathleen Booth
Kathleen Booth was a computing pioneer, who helped with the crystallography analysis that contributed to the DNA structure, was a co-designer of one of the first 3 operational computers in the world, and author of 2 of the earliest books on computer design and programming.
Mary Emma Byrd
American astronomer and mathematician. She was director of the Smith College Observatory for 19 years and was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.