Henrietta Swan Leavitt (/ˈlɛvɪt/; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances... 29 KB (2,989 words) - 15:08, 1 May 2024 |
Cepheid variable (redirect from Henrietta's law) characteristic of classical Cepheids was discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt after studying thousands of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds... 37 KB (4,170 words) - 19:48, 20 April 2024 |
Harvard Computers (section Henrietta Leavitt) discerned in the spectra a way to assess the relative sizes of stars, and Henrietta Leavitt showed how the cyclic changes of certain variable stars could serve... 18 KB (2,376 words) - 01:32, 9 February 2024 |
Period-luminosity relation (redirect from Leavitt's law) Classical Cepheid variables, sometimes called the Leavitt Law. Discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the relation established Cepheids as foundational... 20 KB (2,319 words) - 18:00, 15 April 2024 |
(lost to Moonlight) African-American women in computer science Henrietta Swan Leavitt Kathaleen Land List of black films of the 2010s List of films about... 61 KB (6,518 words) - 20:28, 6 April 2024 |
Hart Day Leavitt (1909–2008), American teacher and amateur jazz musician Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer Hiram Leavitt (1824–1901)... 7 KB (872 words) - 20:25, 21 March 2024 |
computers with possibly the best-known being Florence Cushman, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Annie Jump Cannon, who worked with Pickering from 1888, 1893... 23 KB (2,730 words) - 12:52, 9 April 2024 |
The crater is named after Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a Harvard astronomer. The crater was named to honor deaf people, like Leavitt, who have made substantial... 5 KB (455 words) - 02:06, 26 January 2024 |
noted by the women "computers" and reported to their supervisors. Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the cepheid variable star period-luminosity relation... 81 KB (10,061 words) - 14:55, 4 March 2024 |
(b. 1845) 1913 – Menelik II, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1844) 1921 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868) 1923 – Raymond Radiguet... 78 KB (6,264 words) - 15:12, 30 April 2024 |
Jump Cannon, who developed the stellar classification system, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who discovered the means to measure the distance from a star to... 86 KB (3,853 words) - 02:40, 13 March 2024 |
Kingdom, 1799–1880) Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (France, fl. 1858) Henrietta Swan Leavitt (United States, 1868–1921) Typhoon Lee (United States and Taiwan... 125 KB (5,434 words) - 17:22, 13 April 2024 |
Charles Pickering. The group included Harvard computer and astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury.... 20 KB (2,017 words) - 21:54, 25 March 2024 |
observations of galactic rotation curves in the 1970s. Stars luminosity Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the... 65 KB (7,595 words) - 20:39, 16 April 2024 |
Bois 1890 Fisk University Bainbridge Colby 1890 Williams College Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1892 Radcliffe College Edward E. Wilson 1892 Williams College Learned... 50 KB (1,275 words) - 13:45, 1 May 2024 |
x-ray diffraction 1912: Vesto Slipher: galactic redshifts 1912: Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Cepheid variable period-luminosity relation 1913: Henry Moseley:... 90 KB (10,194 words) - 18:23, 14 April 2024 |
stars with their pulsation period. Named for American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Lehman's laws of software evolution Leibniz's law is a principle... 76 KB (10,163 words) - 16:16, 1 May 2024 |
important to astronomy, as many women including Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Williamina Fleming, and Florence Cushman... 6 KB (632 words) - 01:30, 2 March 2024 |