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Project PHaEDRA. This collection explores the discoveries and methods of American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) as a “computer”, examining glass photographic plates in order to measure and catalog the brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relationship between the ...
美国女天文学家. 亨丽爱塔·勒维特， 美国 女天文学家，聋哑人，造父变星周光关系的发现者。. 勒维特1868年出生于美国 马萨诸塞州 的兰开斯特。. 中文名. 亨丽爱塔·勒维特. 出生日期. 1868年. 职 业. 天文学家.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer and graduate of Radcliffe College, who worked as a computer at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), where she examined glass photographic plates and measured the brightness, or magnitude, of stars. This work led her to discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of brightening ...
Variable Stars. Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. Leavitt identified variable stars by gathering five images of one section of sky from different nights (four glass negatives and a positive print of a fifth) and overlaying each negative in turn on the positive print. Stars of constant brightness neutralized the differences ...
Beginnings. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868 in the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA. Her father was George Roswell Leavitt, a doctor of divinity, who was a minister in the Congregational Church. Her mother was Henrietta Swan Kendrick. The Leavitt family was financially relatively prosperous.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in Massachusetts in 1868 and entered Radcliffe, then named the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, at the age of 20. The rigorous education she received, spanning from classical Greek to fine arts and philosophy, to analytical geometry and differential calculus, would have been sufficient to lead to a successful academic career – if she had been a ...
4 de ene. de 2021 · Les travaux de Henrietta Swan Leavitt ont été essentiels au développement de l’astronomie, de l’astrophysique et de la cosmologie. Découvrons l’histoire de la femme qui a découvert comment mesurer l’Univers. Jeunesse d’Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Henrietta Swan Leavitt est née le 4 juillet 1868 dans la ville de Lancaster aux États ...
