Elizabeth Langdon Williams
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Elizabeth Langdon Williams
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Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell, August 1, 1913
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing least square solutions.
Telegram from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell, March 18, 1914
Telegram from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing computations of Neptune and Planet X.
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Wrexie Leonard, November 4, 1909
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Wrexie Leonard discussing a computational error in "Planets and Their Satellites."
Elizabeth Williams with her siblings in the early 1900s
Elizabeth Williams with Ursula Louise Ring and Henry Trumbull Williams
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Johnson O'Connor, 1917
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Johnson O'Connor discussing coordinates of Jupiter's fifth moon (Amalthea).
Letters between Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Gill regarding least squares and machine computation, 1921
Two letters between Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Gill discussing the publication of a method for adapting least squares to machine computation.
Newspaper clipping about Elizabeth Williams at MIT's commencement ceremony, 1903
Newspaper account of Elizabeth Williams' speech at MIT's commencement and her studies in math and physics at the school.
Trans-Neptunian planet (Planet X) computations by Elizabeth Williams
Trans-Neptunian planet (Planet X) computations by Elizabeth Williams, who worked in Percival Lowell's Boston office as a computer, i.e. a person who manually made calculations.
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing Planet X calculations
Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing mathematical calculations of Planet X and Uranus. Williams worked in Lowell's Boston office for many years as a computer, making calculations associated with Lowell's search for Planet X.