Women have a rich and deep history working in computing in Australia, but their stories have often been overlooked.
Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming , one of the founding members of the Harvard Computers at the Harvard College Observatory.The Australian computers on the Astrographic Catalogue were following the example set by other groups, such as the Harvard Computers — which included Williamina Fleming.This team she led at the Harvard College Observatory in the US was known as the Harvard Computers, and they helped develop a new classification system for stars.
"They did a lot of amazing analytical work that gave new perspectives on astronomy, certainly about the distance of stars," Dr Stevenson said. "One of the women, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, discovered Cepheids, which are very fundamental in working out the scale of our universe." When the Astrographic Catalogue kicked off in 1887, another female astronomer, Dr Dorothea Klumpke, was tasked with setting up the first measuring bureau in Paris."in 1899: "Ours is a work of the night and day! ... astronomical science now becomes universal! She knows no boundaries, no rank, no sex, no age!"
Dorothea Kulmpke, Williamina Fleming, and the Harvard Computers were recognised for their work and had their names published inComputers at the Harvard College Observatory in about 1891, including Williamina Fleming, Henrietta Leavitt and Annie Jump Cannon.
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