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1. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leavitt/

   14 Apr 2026: E Howell, Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Discovered How to Measure Stellar Distances, Space.com (11 November 2016). ... Other websites about Henrietta Swan Leavitt:. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

2. Pictures of Henrietta Swan Leavitt - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leavitt/pictdisplay/

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3. sci_hi PDF (3357k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/leavitt_sh.pdf

   12 Dec 2025: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Light of the Cepheids. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921). ... Henrietta Swan Leavitt”. In Shearer, Barbara; Shearer, Benjamin (eds.). Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary.

4. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers © 2007 Springer Leavitt,… PDF (120k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BEA/leavitt_bea.pdf

   13 Feb 2026: Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2007 Springer. Leavitt, Henrietta Swan. Born Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA, July 4, 1868. ... Gingerich, Owen (1973). "Leavitt, Henrietta Swan." In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston

5. The Reaches of the Milky Way - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/galaxy/

   7 Mar 2023: Henrietta Swan Leavitt made noteworthy progress examining the variable stars, that we now know as Cepheid variables, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. ... When put together with measurements of the distance of closer variable stars using secular parallax by

6. Fleming in newspapers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Fleming_newspapers/

   7 Jun 2023: Mrs Fleming has fifteen assistants, one of whom, Miss Henrietta Swan Leavitt, has won fame by discovering sixty-five new variables.

7. Size of the Universe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Size_Universe/

   10 Jul 2023: A major advance in calculating distances came about in 1908 when Henrietta Swan Leavitt observed variable stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. ... Leavitt observed that there was a relationship between the period of variability of the stars

8. Sci Hi blog links - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/

   14 Apr 2026: The Sci Hi blog was a daily blog on science, technology and art in history which ran from 2014 to 2023. It has a good coverage of mathematics and astronomy. We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to articles in this blog as you can see below

9. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cannon/

   5 Mar 2026: One of the other women working in the observatory who also made significant contributions was Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who, like Annie, was deaf.

10. Mina Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fleming/

    14 May 2026: Between 1888 and 1903 she was responsible for recruiting twenty women, including Annie Jump Cannon in 1896, Henrietta Swan Leavitt in 1902 and Joanna Crighton Stevens Mackie in 1903.