Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, in Lancaster, Mass., the oldest of seven children. She was named for her mother, Henrietta Swan (Kendrick) Leavitt.

July 4 (UPI) -- "Sideways" icon Virginia Madsen is leading the tributes to her brother, "Reservoir Dogs" and "The Hateful ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, Henrietta Swan Leavitt began volunteering as a Harvard Computer; because jobs for women in astronomy were so few and far between at that time ...

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt is credited with creating tools to help us map the starts in the universe. Now her life story is being told in a very unique way right here in Portland through ...

The life of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't glamorous. Her tedious work and genius observations didn't guarantee fame or equality, at least not ...

Titled “25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt,” the installation pushes the boundaries of medium and materiality to expose the groundbreaking research of its eponymous ...

Bottom LEFT: This photo from the Harvard University Library shows Henrietta Swan Leavitt, right, and Annie Jump Cannon, two astronomers whose work at the Harvard College Observatory revolutionized ...

However, the method Shapley used to measure distances across the Milky Way was critical to Hubble's discovery, and was inherited from the work of a pioneering US astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt ...

For this we pay homage to Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who in 1912 discovered a relationship between the brightness of a certain class of “variable” stars and the period over which their brightness ...