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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Harvard Observatory astronomer (1868–1921) whose law linking Cepheid brightness and period gave astronomy its yardstick for measuring the universe.
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Harvard Observatory astronomer (1868–1921) whose law linking Cepheid brightness and period gave astronomy its yardstick for measuring the universe.
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