#  A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’ 

 





August 01, 2017

 

 

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 Hear about an amazing discovery in the Plate Stacks and the Wolbach library spanning more than a century. Items are on display in Wolbach.

 Full Story: <https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-27/team-women-are-unearthing-forgotten-legacy-harvard-s-women-computers>

 Boston Globe: [http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/08/10/women-computers-held-st…](http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/08/10/women-computers-held-stars-their-hands/qfLYwpsNZdFNHyiY2igPNJ/story.html)

 WCVB: <http://www.wcvb.com/article/eclipse-women-of-the-stars/12033566>

 *Image: The display case in Wolbach Library includes pages from a journal kept by Fleming; a portrait of her that librarians chose because she describes buying a hat (but not necessarily the one pictured) in the diary; and one of the recently-discovered logbooks, opened to the page where she noted the Horsehead Nebula for the first time.*

 *Credit: Courtesy Daina Boquin, Wolbach Library*



 

 

 



 

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