Dr Joan Feynman
Astrophysicist who studied auroras
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Dr Li-Wei Hung
Dr Hung studies night sky brightness.
Vicki Noonan
Australian who worked on the Astrographic Catalogue at Melbourne Observatory from 1907 to 1909.
Lillian Emblad Lewis
Astrographic measurer and computer from 1898 to 1903 at the Melbourne Observatory
Muriel Agnes Heagney
Australian pioneer of women’s rights and equal pay, a feminist and trade unionist and astrographic measurer and computer at Melbourne Observatory from November 1906 until August 1910
Margaretha van Godewijk
Prominent Dutch Golden Age poet and a painter.
Anna Winlock
Distinguished American astronomer and a notable member of the pioneering female computer group known as “the Harvard Computers.”
Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
Renowned French astronomer and mathematician.
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg
American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research on globular clusters and variable stars.
Dr María Ruiz
Distinguished Chilean astronomer; the first woman to receive Chile’s National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female astrophysics doctorate from Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.