Melissa Joskow

Melissa Joskow is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is a former summer research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

Waterman, far left, takes a break with her fellow computers at Mount Wilson Observatory in California during the 1910 Solar Union conference.

More Than a Century Ago, Astronomer Phoebe Waterman Defied Her Doubters

Told she couldn’t succeed in science, one woman proved there are many ways to leave a legacy.

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