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The women "computers" who changed astronomy

A curator found more than 2,000 notebooks left behind in a Harvard library. They belonged to Harvard's first women "computers," who studied the stars more than 40 years before they had the right to vote. Alex Newman reports.

(Image: Curator Lindsay Smith Zrull places a glass plate photograph of a section of the sky onto a lightbox. Credit: PRI’s The World)

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