Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story that ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt. In 1893, a young Leavitt was hired as a "computer" to analyze images from telescope observations at Harvard College Observatory, Massachusetts. Leavitt studied photographic ...

The two people whose shoulders Hubble stood on the most, though, were Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley. Leavitt worked at Harvard College Observatory as a "computer" who would analyze ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...

Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "human computer," laboriously measuring the positions and ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...