Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868-1921
American astronomer who contributed to stellar measuring methodology. Leavitt analyzed photographic plates at the Harvard College Observatory. She recognized that a re...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868--1921) was an American astronomer of the first magnitude. Her research resulted in numerous advances within the field, the effects of which extended well beyond her lifeti...
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Henrietta Leavitt was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1868. She attended public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Radcliffe College. In 1892, during her senior year, ...
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Henrietta Leavitt's most famous discovery was the "period-luminosity" relation for variable stars (those changing in brightness), an important method of obtaining distances to far-off galaxies. She al...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt
