“I was really interested in Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Leavitt's contribution ... dandelions and animals to physics and anatomical drawings, through the distortions of the various glass objects ...

We used to think the Milky Way was the only galaxy, but with one simple law, Henrietta Swan Leavitt ... a year, Leavitt left the observatory in 1896 to travel in Europe and work as an art ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4 ... Her course of study was mostly in the liberal arts — languages, art, philosophy and history — but in her final year before graduation, according ...

Here’s how it works. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a Harvard "computer" — one of several women in the early 1900s who studied photographic plates for fundamental properties of stars. Leavitt is ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of many women “computers” who worked at Harvard University, cataloging stars around the turn of the last century. Women could be paid less than men, and were ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born ... from bright to dim and back fairly regularly. Leavitt's work with variable stars led to her most important contribution to the field: the cepheid variable period ...

New Players Theatre Guild presents a valiant attempt at staging “Silent Sky,” depicting the contribution of ... of researcher and astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, born in Lancaster, deaf ...

FISH CREEK — "Silent Sky," a play based on the life of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, will open tonight at Peninsula Players Theatre, 4351 Peninsula Players Road, Fish Creek. Performances ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Vera Rubin changed the way we view the Universe. So why don't we hear more about them? Read: Four women who changed the face of physics Listen ...