Dr. Frances Woodworth Wright (April 30, 1897-July 30, 1989) was an American Astronomer, Navigator, and Instructor who worked in the Harvard College Observatory and with the Women Computers of the Plate Stacks for many years. She helped develop methods of observation for comets and meteors.
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.
Dr. Anne Sewell Young (1871-1961) was a prominent astronomer and professor who specialized in variable stars.
Arville D. Walker (August 2,1883 – August 5, 1963) was an Astronomer and Secretary at Harvard College Observatory for about 51 years.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
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 Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.