Henrietta Swan Leavitt
In 1912 Henrietta Leavitt wrote a short article about a significant discovery that would enable Edwin Hubble to establish the relationship between the distances of galaxies and their velocities.
Leavitt was born in Massachusetts. After college and travelling to Europe she began work at the Harvard College Observatory, USA. Women were employed at the observatory as ‘computers’.
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