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A Woman Aitronomor,w** * ^ A I . tf* 4V *fiLi 1j i _ *+ '■ * * c* fi* |A- W • «S » ;, '» *%** I* ** n 't* * • % dC ^Mrs. Williamlna Paton Fleming is known among astronomers simply as “M. Fleming. She Is a native of Dundee, Scotland. There she was educated, and taught school for five years. Her father, whose name was 3ttvens, was a man of scientific inclinations, and was among the first in Dundee to take a practical interest in the introduction of the daguerretoype process of photography. Going to the United States about 20 years ago, Mrs. Fleming almost at once secured employment as a computer at the Harvard observatory. From the simplest kind ofwork she has steadily advanced to her present conspicuious; and arduous position. She made the measures for the Draper catalogue, superintended their reduction and assisted in thepreparation of the work for publication. For her industry and ability in this labor she received the heartycommendation of scientists and recognition by name in the annals of the observatory. Mrs. Fleming's original research has been noteworthy in three directions—in the detection of new stars, in the discovery of a**law concerning variable stars and * of many examples of this class of bodies, and inthe. invcspg^lop of*a|«rp'of type V.Since 1886 only six new stars have been found, and of five of these Mrs. Fleming Is the discoverer. But for an accident to a plate she might have been the first to discern the sixth.
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The Jefferson County Record
Diller, Nebraska, US
Fri, Apr 28, 1899
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