History is full of brilliant people who were underestimated, particularly women. In the late 1800s, one woman went from cleaning rooms to making groundbreaking discoveries about the stars. Her name ...

In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming went from working as a maid to a career as a pioneering astronomer. The claim that Fleming went from being a maid to building a ...

In 1878, Williamina Fleming immigrated to Boston from Scotland with her husband – but he abandoned her shortly after they ...