Alta M Carpenter
Alta May Carpenter (June 8, 1878 – 1945) worked as one of the Women Astronomical Computers at the Harvard College Observatory from 1906 until 1920.
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Amy Jackson McKay
Amy Jackson McKay (ca. 1870-1907) worked as a Computer and Assistant at the Harvard College Observatory from 1891-1906.
Dr Anne Hagopian
Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.
Anne A Pickering
Anne Atwood Pickering worked with the Harvard College Observatory in various ways from 1891-1924.1 She assisted with the management of Harvard’s Boyden Observatory in Peru and with the Harvard-affiliated Woodlawn observational station in Jamaica.
Dr Anne Sewell Young
Dr. Anne Sewell Young (1871-1961) was a prominent astronomer and professor who specialized in variable stars.
Sarah Frances Whiting
American physicist and astronomer
Flora B Harpman
Head computer at Columbia University’s observatory
C S Stevens
Harvard Observatory astronomer
Caroline Furness
Director of the Vassar College Observatory in the early 1900s
Alice Davis
Secretary and Librarian at the Allegheny Observatory