Unsung observatory worker was UK's first professional female astronomer, experts say
by Donna Ferguson

The Guardian    Translate This Article
30 June 2025

On 30 June 2025 The Guardian reported: For more than a century, astronomers assumed she had simply 'computed' complex calculations for the Victorian men who had exclusive use of Cambridge Observatory telescopes. But researchers now say that Annie Walker - a Victorian woman who began working at the observatory in 1879, when she was only 15 - actually observed thousands of stars herself. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

Previously overlooked evidence indicates Walker was the first British professional female astronomer who was paid a living wage by an observatory in the UK to chart the stars.

...The Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, which houses its library in the old Cambridge Observatory building, is seeking to put this right.

...'She was a real pioneer for women in astronomy - she literally would have recorded the position of thousands of stars,' said the institute's spokesperson Mark Hurn ...

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