Wayne Countryside
Garden Club
Wayne Countryside Garden Club
Wayne, Illinois | Since 1955
WAYNE, ILLINOIS - SINCE 1955
Spring Luncheon - "The Women Who Measured The Stars"
Date: May 21, 2026
Time: 11:00 - 3:00
Location: Dunham Woods Riding Club | 33w333 Army Trail Rd, Wayne, IL 60184
Presenter
Rebecca Tulloch
Details
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, Women Astronomers of the Harvard College Observatory calculated the distances, temperatures and composition of the stars. Facing many challenges including sexism from their male colleagues who's common belief was that women were not worthy of earning college degrees and could never achieve serious scientific accomplishments, Henrietta Swan Leavitt led the shift in astronomical understanding of the scale and understanding of the universe; Annie Jump Cannon was instrumental in the development of the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types; and Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin discovered that Stars were primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. Everyone has heard of Galileo and Newton, now it’s time to learn about the Women Who Measured the Stars.
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Location
Home of Emily Miller
33W460 Thorncroft Drive, Wayne, IL
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