Williamina fleming wikipedia

A bikin baje kolin duniya na 1893 a Chicago,Fleming ta fito fili ta ba da shawara ga sauran mata a cikin ilimin kimiyya a cikin jawabinta na"Filin Aikin Mata a Astronomy",inda ta fito fili ta tallata hayar mataimakan mata a fannin ilmin taurari.Jawabin nata ya nuna cewa ta yarda da ra'ayin da ake yi na cewa mata ba su da yawa amma tana jin cewa,idan aka ba su dama mai mahimmanci,za su iya zama daidai;a wasu kalmomi, bambance-bambancen jima'i a wannan fannin sun fi gina al'adu fiye da tushen halittu.^[1]

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In the late 1870s, Williamina Fleming was in her early 20s and a recent U.S. immigrant from Scotland. She had come married with a child, but her husband abandoned the family shortly after arriving. Responsible for raising their son, she took a job as a housekeeper in the home of Edward Pickering, the Director of Harvard College Observatory.

As the story goes, one day, when frustrated with the men he employed, Edward yelled out, “My Scottish maid could do better!” While said in jest, there was much truth to his comment. Williamina was an advanced student while in Scotland. She was a pupil-teacher by 14 years old and continued teaching for five years until she married.

In 1881, Edward hired Williamina as the first of what would become a famous group of Harvard Computers. All women, they studied the stars through glass plate photographs. Then only a few years later, while still not even 30 years old, Williamina became curator of astronomical photographs. This

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