Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic plates in order to measure and catalog the brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. Leavitt's discovery provided astronomers with the first "standard candle" with which to measure the distance to faraway galaxies.
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Female
Date of Birth
July 4th, 1868
Age
156
Birth Place
United States of America, Massachusetts
Date of Death
December 12nd, 1921
Died Aged
53
Star Sign
Cancer
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