16 Facts About Harvard Computers

Harvard Computers was a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

In describing the dedication and efficiency with which the Harvard Computers, including Florence, undertook this effort, Edward Pickering said, "a loss of one minute in the reduction of each estimate would delay the publication of the entire work by the equivalent of the time of one assistant for two years.

Harvard Computers's was very involved in her husband's work and wanted to finish his classification of stars after he died.

Harvard Computers's had received correspondence from Mr Pickering, a close friend of hers and her husband's.

Harvard Computers's had decided this would be the best way to continue her husband's work and erect his legacy in astronomy.

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Harvard Computers's was very insistent on funding the memorial project with her own inheritance, as it would carry on her husband's legacy.

Harvard Computers's was a dedicated follower of the observatory and a great friend of Pickering's.

Williamina Fleming had no prior relation to Harvard Computers, as she was a Scottish immigrant working as Pickering's housemaid.

For instance, Anna Winlock, one of the first of the Harvard Computers, was the daughter of Joseph Winlock, the third director of the observatory and Pickering's immediate predecessor.

Harvard Computers's tackled her father's unfinished data analysis, performing the arduous work of mathematically reducing meridian circle observations, which rescued a decade's worth of numbers that had been left in a useless state.

Harvard Computers's became the first female assistant to study variable stars at night.

Harvard Computers's studied the light curve of variable stars which could help suggest the type and causation of variation.

Harvard Computers's categorized the variable stars into tables so they could be identified and compared more easily.

Harvard Computers's had experience through her college studies, traveling abroad, and teaching.

Harvard Computers's found hundreds of new variable stars after starting to analyze the Great Nebula in Orion and her work was expanded to study the variables of the entire sky with Annie Jump Cannon and Evelyn Leland.

Harvard Computers's stayed as an astronomer at the Observatory until 1937 and died in 1940 at the age of 80.