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Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921 (2)

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts on July 4, 1868. Leavitt attended Oberlin College for two years before transferring to Harvard University's Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe College), where she received a bachelor's degree in 1892. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic plates to catalog the positions and brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relation betw...

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