| LC control no. | n 2014023782 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fleming, Williamina P., 1857-1911 |
| Variant(s) | Fleming, Williamina Paton, 1857-1911 Fleming, Williamina, 1857-1911 Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens, 1857-1911 |
| Birth date | 18570515 |
| Death date | 19110521 |
| Place of birth | Dundee (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy |
| Affiliation | Harvard College Observatory |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers |
| Found in | Miscellaneous investigations of the Henry Draper memorial, 1897: t.p. (M. Fleming) Spectra and photographic magnitudes of stars in standard regions, 1911 t.p. (Williamina P. Fleming) LC database, April 29, 2014 (hdg.: Fleming, Williamina Paton, Mrs. (Stevens),1857-1911; Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens, 1857-1911: usage: Williamina P. Fleming; M. Fleming) Wikipedia, April 29, 2014 (Williamina Fleming; Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming; born May 15, 1857 in Dundee, Scotland; died May 21, 1911 in Boston, Mass.; astronomer. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and catalogued thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Fleming is especially noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888. In 1881, Fleming was hired to work at the Harvard College Observatory. While there, she devised and helped implement a system of assigning stars a letter according to how much hydrogen could be observed in their spectra. In 1899, Fleming was given the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs. In 1906, she was made an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London; soon after she was appointed honorary fellow in astronomy of Wellesley College) |
| Associated language | eng |
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