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• Williamina Paton Stevens was born in Dundee, Scotland, at 86 Nethergate, on 15 May 1857 to Mary Walker and Robert Stevens, a carver and gilder.
• This left the problem to the ideas of Henry Draper's niece Antonia Maury (who insisted on a complex classification system) and Williamina Fleming (who was overseeing the project for Pickering, and wanted a much more simple, straightforward approach).
• The prototype star RR Lyrae was discovered prior to 1899 by Williamina Fleming, and reported by Pickering in 1900 as "indistinguishable from cluster-type variables".
• Between 1835 and 1916 women were not allowed to become fellows, but Anne Sheepshanks, Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Agnes Clerke, Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming were made honorary members.
• In 1896, Williamina Fleming observed mysterious spectral lines from Zeta Puppis, which fit the Rydberg formula if half-integers were used instead of whole integers.
• This was evident in the achievements accomplished earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
• Meyer de Schauensee married Williamina Wemyss Wentz (1905–1989), a daughter of John Leisenring Wentz and Sarah Ward Brinton (later Audenried).
• Also known as Pickering's Wedge, or Pickering's Triangular Wisp, this segment of relatively faint nebulosity was discovered photographically in 1904 by Williamina Fleming at Harvard Observatory, where Edward Charles Pickering was director at the time.
• The son of George MacKenzie and Williamina Sutherland, he was educated at the Isle of Erraid Public School in Argyll, the Aird Public School on the Isle of Lewis, the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, and the Portree High School in Skye.
• On 14 October 1911, when known by the courtesy title Viscount Uffington, he married Mary Williamina George, daughter of William George, the town clerk of Invergordon.
• TZ Cassiopeiae was reported as being variable by Williamina Fleming and published posthumously in 1911.
• Hydrogen deficiency in a star was first discovered in 1891 by Williamina Fleming, In 1906, Hans Ludendorff found that Hγ Balmer spectral lines were absent in R CrB.

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