One of the biggest contributions of Edward Pickering, who was the director of Harvard College Observatory for 42 years (1876-1918), is initiating a program to map the variability of objects in the night sky [1]. One of the main consequences of this program was to collect a huge number of…
Check out astronomer Henrietta Leavitt's logbook from Harvard! This woman was dedicated to her research. #primarySource #WomenInScience #werk #FordsSky https://twitter.com/ProjectPHaEDRA/status/1227994129054846976
it's always good to take a break, especially after a long day of calculating stars! This image shows that Henrietta Leavitt wrote "stopped at 5:00 after writing 100 cards" in her work notebook in 1915.
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@ProjectPHaEDRA Guess what I did to celebrate #WomenInScience Day??
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