Henrietta Hill Swope
American astronomer
Henrietta Hill Swope was an American
astronomer who studied variable stars. In particular, she measured the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid stars, which are bright variable stars whose periods of variability relate directly to their... Wikipedia
Born: October 26, 1902, St. Louis, MO
Died: November 24, 1980 (age 78 years), Pasadena, CA
Award: Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (1968)
Parents: Gerard Swope