Page 11 of 21
| In 1882, Edward Pickering, the director of Harvard College Observatory, published a pamphlet on variable stars and specifically intended to interest women in astronomy in doing so. Pickering hired his former cook, Williamina Fleming, and her hire was quickly followed by the addition of other women who assisted in producing a catalog of variable stars and creating the criteria for evaluating variable stars. Indeed, one author has claimed that Pickering’s greatest scientific discovery was women. | |
 |
 |
