Biography

Williamina Fleming: From a Maid to a Pioneering Astronomer

Initially just a maid, the Scottish Williamina Fleming became a pioneering astronomer in the classification of stellar spectra.

By Hrothsige Frithowulf
Williamina Fleming
Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard Computers team and Williamina Fleming is in the middle of the photograph. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)