Henrietta Swan Leavitt
American astronomer
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the scale and understanding of the scale and the nature of the universe. Nomination of Leavitt for... Wikipedia
Born: July 4, 1868, Lancaster, MA
Died: December 12, 1921 (age 53 years), Cambridge, MA
Education: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Oberlin College
Known for: Leavitt's Law: the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variables
Parents: George Roswell Leavitt and Henrietta Swan
Fields: Astronomy