Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming Biography

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming biography

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NAME: Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
OCCUPATION: Academic Author
BIRTH DATE: May 15, 1857
DEATH DATE: May 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH: Dundee, Scotland
PLACE OF DEATH: Boston, Massachusetts
Maiden Name: Williamina Paton Stevens
AKA: Mina Stevens

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Mina Stevens was an astronomer who was a pioneer in the classification of stellar spectra.

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Mina Fleming is best known for her work on the classification of stellar spectra—the pattern of lines caused by the dispersion of a star's light through a prism placed before a telescope lens. Using a technique that came to be known as the Pickering-Fleming system, she studied tens of thousands of celestial photographs and she discovered 10 novae, 52 nebulae and hundreds of variable stars.