A different route into astronomySourced
A household job led to a job classifying stars
Williamina Fleming worked as a maid in the home of Harvard’s observatory director. She began helping with observatory administration and formally joined its staff in 1881 to analyze stellar spectra. She later played a central role in classifying more than ten thousand stars.
Her route into astronomy began inside a household.
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