One woman, however, helped to find the distances to stars, and her name was Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Leavitt is famous for her discoveries as a computer at the Harvard College Observatory.

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

Closer to home, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, born in Lancaster, MA, in 1868, made powerhouse contributions to the field of astronomy, but her working conditions and recognition were fitting to her gender.

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 ...

Miss Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe George Johnson Atlas Books/W.W. Norton: 162 pp., $22.95 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ligia Bouton's "25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt" installed at the temporary outbound Kendall/MIT station entrance. By Courtesy of Ligia Bouton ...