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 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 galaxy ...

The life of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921) has been resurrected on stage. Henrietta Leavitt was an American female astronomer who discovered how to measure vast distances in space during the 19th ...

The cast is set for the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s upcoming production of “Silent Sky.” Being staged at the Guildhall on Rogers Street, from March 21 to April 5, the play, by Lauren Gunderson, is ...

It is the International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, and what better way to celebrate than to discuss the work of Henrietta Leavitt, the scientist who discovered Cepheid variables and laid the ...

Fremont Community Theatre is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of "Silent Sky," a spellbinding drama that explores the life and groundbreaking work of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

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 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 that ...