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Happy birthday to the American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt who was born #OTD in 1868.
She became a member of the ‘Harvard Computers’, a group of women hired by Harvard Observatory director Edward C. Pickering to process astronomical data. Leavitt is best known for her discovery of the relationship between period and luminosity in Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that vary regularly in brightness in periods ranging from a few days to several months. via soc.hist.astron.
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She became a member of the ‘Harvard Computers’, a group of women hired by Harvard Observatory director Edward C. Pickering to process astronomical data. Leavitt is best known for her discovery of the relationship between period and luminosity in Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that vary regularly in brightness in periods ranging from a few days to several months. via soc.hist.astron.
#astronomy