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    The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the...
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    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...
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    The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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    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...
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    collaboration with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. In 1973, the Smithsonian and Harvard formalized the...
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    research institute jointly operated by the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Cambridge...
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    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...
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    Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College...
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  • Shapley moved with her husband to the Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, and from 1915 through 1927 she continued to publish...
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    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...
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