Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered ...
"Pickering's Computers" The final installment of this series on science's elusive women will focus on English-American astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Henrietta Swan Leavitt worked at Harvard University cataloging stars. Through her work, astronomers have come to understand how to use Cepheid variable stars as cosmic signposts.
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A group of dedicated women made astounding discoveries in the late 19th and early 20th century. Those plates still resonate as one of the greatest astronomical archives known.
We used to think the Milky Way was the only galaxy, but with one simple law, Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed that forever – and she didn't even need a telescope.
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