The scientist Henrietta Leavitt

Henrietta Leavitt

Living place: Massachusetts

Birthday: 4-7-1868

Global rank: #44970

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Who is The scientist Henrietta Leavitt?
Astronomer who helped measure the relative brightness of the Cepheid variable, which helped scientists to measure the distance to the star. After her death her work was used to determine that the Milky Way galaxy was not the only galaxy in the observable universe.
The observation by a class of her stars that brighter and darker 'pulses' can make interstellar distance calculations much larger with more precision than ever before.
 
 

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After her education, she worked at the Harvard University Observatory to calculate and record the brightness of stars.

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She was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, the daughter of George Roswell Leavitt, a church congregation minister.

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Based on his work, Edwin Hubble was able to calculate that the universe is expanding.

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When was The scientist Henrietta Leavitt born?
Henrietta Leavitt was born in 4-7-1868, death year is , at the age of 156.
Where is The scientist Henrietta Leavitt's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Henrietta Leavitt was born in Massachusetts, . is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Henrietta Leavitt's global rank is 44970 and whose rank is 163 in list of famous The scientist.
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Events in 1868 and 4-7

Birthday Henrietta Leavitt (4-7) in history

  • Day 4-7 year 1776: The United States declares independence. Officially free from British domination. 
  • Day 4-7 year 1826: Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.
  • Day 4-7 year 1831: Former president James Monroe died.
  • Day 4-7 year 1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.
  • Day 4-7 year 1862: Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground to the Liddell sisters.
  • Day 4-7 year 1884: The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.
  • Day 4-7 year 1895: Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.
  • Day 4-7 year 1939: Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.
  • Day 4-7 year 1976: The United States celebrated its bicentennial.
  • Day 4-7 year 1997: The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.
  • Day 4-7 year 2012: The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, announced the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson.
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