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Henrietta Swan
Leavitt
Brief Biography:
- 1868, July 4th
- Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts
- 1892 - Graduated with a
bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College; The
Society for the Collegiate Instruction for
Women.
- 1893 - Began working at Harvard
College Observatory as a human computer.
Initially as a volunteer, she was eventually
hired full time as the head of the department of
photographic stellar photometry (Byers). She was
paid for 0.25 ¢/hr.
- 1908 - Discovered the
period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars.
- 1921, December 12th
- Died of cancer at the
age of 53.
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