Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...

Henrietta Leavitt joined the Harvard College Observatory as a volunteer in 1895. She was appointed to the permanent staff in 1902, and eventually became chief of the photometry department.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure ...

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt is credited with creating tools to help us map the starts in the universe. Now her life story is being told in a very unique way right here in Portland through ...