Edward Charles Pickering
The monies that she donated enabled Edward Charles Pickering of the university to classify stars based upon characteristics found in photographs of the spectra of stars. Her influence resulted in women astronomers working at the observatory. These included her niece Antonia Maury, who proposed new ways to classify stellar spectra, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work on Cepheid variable stars lead to their use as important galactic distance indicators.