Miss Leavitt was of an especially quiet and retiring nature, and absorbed in her work to an unusual degree. — historian Solon I. Bailey (image via Wikimedia Commons) Henrietta: the woman who measured the cosmos — seriously. In 1893, Cambridge native Henrietta scored a job at the Harvard Observatory, as a "human computer." Her groundbreaking research in the then-burgeoning field of luminosity led to the creation of the Hubble telescope, the understanding of variable star brightness and some world-altering scientific revelations about how the universe is expanding and contracting and expanding again — quite literally all the time.
A Woman to Know: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
A Woman to Know: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
A Woman to Know: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Miss Leavitt was of an especially quiet and retiring nature, and absorbed in her work to an unusual degree. — historian Solon I. Bailey (image via Wikimedia Commons) Henrietta: the woman who measured the cosmos — seriously. In 1893, Cambridge native Henrietta scored a job at the Harvard Observatory, as a "human computer." Her groundbreaking research in the then-burgeoning field of luminosity led to the creation of the Hubble telescope, the understanding of variable star brightness and some world-altering scientific revelations about how the universe is expanding and contracting and expanding again — quite literally all the time.