Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868-1921)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3800. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Astronomer, born in Lancaster, MA. Became a volunteer and then staff member of the Harvard College Observatory. Directed by PICKERING to work on variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds, measuring their brightness on repeated exposures on photographic plates. Set up standards of photographic magnitudes (brightness) of stars that were accepted worldwide under the name of the `Harvard Standard', and...

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