Laura Elizabeth Hill McLaughlin (born September 3, 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - died February 22, 1991) was a computer, instructor and researcher of astronomy.
in Astronomy in 1917 with her thesis, “Proper Motions of Stars from Micrometric Measures” from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Specifically, while pursuing her bachelor’s degree, she taught physics, mathematics, and German at three high schools in South Dakota and New Jersey.
Her name and computational works appear in the publication “Stellar Parallaxes: Determined from Photographs made with the 18½-inch Refractor of the Detroit Observatory”.
While Mclaughlin assisted her husband in his astronomical research efforts at the Detroit Observatory, she did not publish any independent work after the creation of her dissertation.