Swope, Henrietta Hill, 1902-1982.

Astronomer (Barnard College, A.B., 1926; Radcliffe, A.M., 1928), Swope worked at the Harvard Observatory, 1928-1942, was a member of the 1936 expedition to study the solar eclipse in Soviet Central Asia, a staff member of the MIT Radiation Laboratory, a mathematician in the Hydrographic Office of the U.S. Navy during WWII, a teacher of astronomy at Barnard, 1947-1952, and an assistant, then research fellow, at the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories in California, 1952-1968. Swope did research on photometry and variable stars, and developed a new yardstick for measuring the universe, using the brightness of stars to measure distance.

From the description of Papers, 1917-1982 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122471085