#  'Hidden Figures' Of Astronomy At Harvard Take Center Stage In Play About Women 'Computers' 

 





March 15, 2017

 

 

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Local public radio station WBUR recently broadcast a segment about the Watertown play *Silent Sky*  about the Harvard College Observatory "computers:" [Meredith Hughes](http://amhughes.web.wesleyan.edu/) (PhD 2010) is interviewed at the end of the segment about her great-grandmother, a former head computer at Lockheed Martin. [Listen here](/%20http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/03/13/silent-sky-harvard-astronomy-women-computers)

*"Silent Sky" is [on stage at the Mosesian Center for the Arts](https://www.flatearththeatre.com/shows/season-11/silent-sky/) in Watertown through March 25.*



 

 

 



 

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