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Originally Posted by avandonk
We owe it all to a really smart woman Henrietta Leavitt who first worked out the luminosity period relationship of Cepheid variables. It was her work that inspired Hubble.
See here or Google her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
If she had not died prematurely she would have got the Nobel Prize in spite of the way she was treated because she was a woman.
Bert |
Bert,
I thought that was a great cue for comment from some of our female members. I did wait.
Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Apparently 2008 was the 100th year anniversary of Leavitt's Law.
Progress on understanding our Universe seems awfully slow.
Regards, Rob