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I ♥ Science at the HMSC

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The Harvard Plate Stacks is excited to be appart of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture's I ♥ Science. Find members of the Plate Stacks team among the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, among other scientists, organizations, and...

Thom Burns

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Thom Burns is the Curator of the Harvard Plate Stacks, the historical astronomical photographic collection at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. His professional and academic career focuses on connecting and creating synergy among...

Margaret Harwood

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Margaret Harwood (March 19, 1885 - February 6, 1979) was an American astronomer, teacher, and the first director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory. Harwood started at the Harvard Observatory in 1912 as the first recipient of the new Maria Mitchell...

EONS Resources

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Figures in the Sky Nadieh Bremer's beautiful data visualizations and an exploration of 28 different sky cultures from around the world. Historical Approaches to Race and Colonialism in Astronomy Reading List A brief introductory/non-comprehensive...

Adelaide Ames

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Adelaide Ames (June 3, 1900-June 26, 1932) was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1923 to 1932. She is best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. Ames became the...

Ashley Yeager

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Science Writer, Editor, Multimedia Producer, and Biographer of Vera Rubin

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There are different ways to search different parts of our collection. If you are interested in exploring our plates and their historic jackets and learning about who used each plate, use our newest and largest database, StarGlass. If you would like to see...

Experience: Cambridge Explores the Universe

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The Harvard Plate Stacks is joining our colleagues at the Center for Astrophysics for Cambridge Explores the Universe! This is the annual open house for the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and is apart of the Cambridge Science Festival...

Anne Hagopian van Buren

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Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the HCO from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College. 1 She entered Radcliffe College to study astronomy after winning a scholarship in 1944 through the third...

The Art and Story of 'The Fire of Stars'

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Join Katherine Roy, the award-winning science illustrator of The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of, for an evening that celebrates Harvard's own star scientist, Cecilia Payne. This moving picture...

Arville D. Walker

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Arville D. Walker (August 2,1883 - August 5, 1963) was an Astronomer and Secretary at Harvard College Observatory for about 51 years. Walker began work at the Observatory in 1906. Her work consisted of the study of variable stars and light curves of novae...

Mentorship and Legacy

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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. Mentoring the Observatory Staff Annie Cannon mentored the observatory staff in both style and substance. Set in relief to her astronomical work ethic, her joyous outlook uplifted her colleagues; whether by...