Henrietta Leavitt, variable stars measuring the Universe

2023-12-29 09:02:37

Published on December 29, 2023 at 10:02. / Modified on December 29, 2023 at 10:10.

In four portraits, we pay tribute to little-known experts in astronomy.

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She might have completed the ridiculously low number of women to have won the Nobel Prize in physics, if her name had not been proposed by the Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler… four years following her death, when this prize was not can be given posthumously!

We are then in 1925 and the discovery of the American Henrietta Swan Leavitt on the period-luminosity relationship of Cepheids – giant stars whose mass reaches four to twenty times that of the Sun – finally achieves international recognition, although late.

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