Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming

Frozen in ice since 1911 finally thawed in 2020

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

If you read anything published by the Harvard observatory while I was there it was edited, proofread, and maybe even written by me

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

My husband abandoned me and my father died when I was only 7

I don’t need no man

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

coming from a family of 9 is rough

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

Pickering had such a profound that I named my only child Edward Pickering Fleming

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

Once i got back to Boston my man just left me so I when to work for the Harvard professor as a maid

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

I was born in Dunde, married, moved to Boston all before the age of 21

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

You know when I was 20 I married a 36 year old man

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I found the Horsehead Nebula

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You know what comes up when you search Guadalupe Almendaro medal about 700 articles on how it was presented to me

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

you men need your fancy degrees i went from a professors maid to honorary fellow in astronomy of Wellesley College

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Hired at Harvard by Pickering Bc he thought the men were incompetent

I cant disagree

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10,000 Stars cataloged by me that’s more stars then some of you have seen in your entire life.
just sad

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

you know why stars are classified based on hydrogen.

Answer: me

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

in 1899, I was given the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs. The first title at Harvard University given to a woman.

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

By the end of my career i had held a magnifying glass over 200,000 photographic plates to see new stars

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My first job was analyzing these to find unique stars

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

Apparently I died from pneumonia in Boston at the nice age of 57

[Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming @PatonFleming]

why was I born in 1857 this is so much better when i was born India was still a colony