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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

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American astronomer and human calculator

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Why Is Henrietta Swan Leavitt Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, 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 understanding of the nature of the universe. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic plates to catalog the positions and brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. Leavitt's discovery provided astronomers with the first standard candle with which to measure the distance to other galaxies.

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
1910012.52537.55062.57587.5100112.5125137.5150

Published Works

  • Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. (1912) (148)
  • 1777 variables in the Magellanic Clouds (66)
  • Variable stars in the nebula of Orion. (1904) (3)
  • The north polar sequence (1)
  • Measurements of Position: Glass Plate ruled in millimeters (0)
  • Fifty-One New Variable Stars. (1921) (0)
  • Measures of Comparison Stars. Small Magellanic Cloud (0)
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt Notebooks (0)
  • Twenty-Two New Variable Stars in Carina. (1906) (0)
  • Variable Stars in Nebulous Regions (0)
  • Examination of Plates (0)
  • The Small Magellanic Cloud. (also Examinations of NSC 6960, 6992) (0)
  • Spectral Class and Magnitude in Harvard Standard Regions. (1921) (0)
  • Notices of Books (1896) (0)
  • The Large Magellanic Cloud (0)
  • A star having a large color-index (0)
  • Standard Photographic Magnitudes - T plates (0)
  • Miscellaneous - Comp. Stars (0)
  • Objects looked up by request (0)
  • Miscellaneous (esp. Novae) (0)
  • A new algol variable, -15 4905. (1904) (0)

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