Long have we read about the prejudices against women in the STEM fields. Most scientists and engineers are men. While women are better represented in the biological sciences, according to the Natio… ...

Dig deep in the annals of astronomy and you'd be hard-pressed to find the name of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a 19th-century astronomer whose ground-breaking insights about a special kind of star led ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was supposed to just be cataloguing stars and making calculations for the men at Harvard. But in 1912, she made a discovery that would forever revolutionize astronomy and ...

The life of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't glamorous. Her tedious work and genius observations didn't guarantee fame or equality, at least not ...

LANCASTER — Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s 150th birthday passed with very little fanfare in her hometown. Admittedly, she didn’t live there long. Born in Lancaster on July 4, 1868, her… ...

This week on Looking Up guest host Caitlyn Voige illuminates a luminary by the name of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. When we look up into the night sky, stars look immeasurably small and distant ...

The central figure here is Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory in the first decades of the 20th century. Leavitt’s discoveries, ...

Early in the play the main character, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, arrives eager to start her job at the Harvard Observatory. But the star-gazing, Lancaster-born Radcliffe grad is confused by her job ...

The play focuses on a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work laid the ground for later revelations, like the idea the universe is much bigger than our little solar system. When the Harvard ...

Titled “25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt,” the installation pushes the boundaries of medium and materiality to expose the groundbreaking research of its eponymous ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story ...