Florence Cushman
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Florence Cushman (1860-1940) was an American astronomer specializing in stellar classification working with Edward Pickering and Annie Jump Cannon at the Harvard College Observatory. Her classifications of stars contributed to the Henry Draper Catalogue.
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This photo was taken in 1918. It is a picture called "paper doll" in which Harvard Computers are shown holding hands. Left to right: Ida E. Woods, Evelyn Leland, Florence Cushman, Grace Brooks, Mary Vann, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Mollie O'Reilly, Mabel Gill, Alta Carpenter, Annie Jump Cannon, Dorothy Block, Arville Walker, Frank E. Hinckley (telescope operator), Edward King (chief of stellar photography).
Harvard Computers and Mary Anna Palmer Draper are pictured together. Taken in the long computing room on the south side of the second floor of the building in 1891, facing east. Left to right: unknown woman (standing), unknown woman (seated), possibly Evelyn Leland, Mrs. Draper (seated), Antonia Maury, Williamina Fleming, possibly Mabel C. Stevens (or some other Stevens), probably Florence Cushman, unknown woman.Scientists from United States 6
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1860 to 1940 · aged 80
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