On this day in 1857 - May 15th - Scottish-American astronomer Williamina Fleming was born.
Fleming, a computer at Harvard College Observatory, was a pioneer in the classification of stellar spectra. During the course of her career, she also discovered 10 novae, 52 nebulae, and 310 variable stars.
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