Henrietta Swan Leavitt

4 July 1868 — 12 December 1921

Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast astronomical distances led to a shift in the understanding of the scale and nature of the universe.

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