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Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921
Henrietta Swan Leavitt notebooks.
In the early 1900s the 'computers' at the Harvard University Observatory were women, paid 25 cents an hour to pore over photographic plates taken with the University's telescope and to catalogue changes in the sizes and locations of stars. This collection is Henrietta Swan Leavitt's astronomical notebooks from her time at the Harvard College Observatory.
American astronomer; graduate of Radcliffe College; known for discovering the period-luminosity relationship of Cepheid stars.
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921
Harvard College Observatory.
Astronomy
Astronomy -- Observations
Women in science
Women physicists.
Notebooks. aat
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Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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