Category:Williamina Fleming
English: Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911) was a Scottish astronomer active in the United States. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and cataloged thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Among several career achievements that advanced astronomy, Fleming is noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888.
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| Date of birth | 15 May 1857 Dundee (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Angus) Williamina Paton Stevens | ||||
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Media in category "Williamina Fleming"
The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total.
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Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard computers.jpg 1,920 × 1,502; 665 KB
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Observatory data analysis by women computers, circa 1890.jpg 800 × 651; 64 KB
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Observatory women computers, 1891.jpg 800 × 657; 74 KB
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Signature of Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857–1911).png 218 × 54; 12 KB
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The planetary nebula Fleming 1 seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope.tiff 1,382 × 592; 1.75 MB
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Williamina Fleming - bizilabe.png 543 × 768; 471 KB
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Williamina Paton Fleming (Technical World Magazine, Oct 1906).png 590 × 660; 853 KB
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming circa 1890s.jpg 1,463 × 1,894; 509 KB
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Categories:
- Fleming (surname)
- Williamina (given name)
- 1857 births
- 1911 deaths
- Deaths from pneumonia
- Female scientists from the United States
- Astronomers from Scotland
- Female astronomers from the United States
- Harvard Computers
- Harvard University staff
- Horsehead Nebula
- Immigrants to the United States from Scotland
- Births in Dundee
- Deaths in Boston
- Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
