The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the... 6 KB (632 words) - 01:30, 2 March 2024 |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (category Harvard Computers) halted because of her death. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic... 29 KB (2,989 words) - 18:10, 15 April 2024 |
Williamina Fleming (category Harvard Computers) astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra... 20 KB (2,017 words) - 21:54, 25 March 2024 |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Harvard College Observatory people) After being introduced to Harlow Shapley, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, where he had just established a graduate program in astronomy... 40 KB (4,017 words) - 22:39, 15 April 2024 |
Shapley moved with her husband to the Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, and from 1915 through 1927 she continued to publish... 6 KB (728 words) - 18:18, 20 March 2024 |
Annie Jump Cannon (category Whitin Observatory) gave Cannon access to the Harvard College Observatory. In 1896, Edward C. Pickering hired her as his assistant at the Observatory. In 1907, Cannon finished... 35 KB (3,452 words) - 20:31, 31 March 2024 |