Reference Information
Book Name Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Acronym 5A1 DSB Call Number SEL/PHYSICS REF Q141 D5 1981
Article "Leavitt, Henrietta"
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
Date of Publication 1981 City of Publication New York
Editor Charles Coulston Gillespie Other Editors
Author Owen Gingerich Other Authors

Additional Information
Women Cited Astrophysics
Leavitt, Henrietta
Reference to publications
in scientific journals
yes
Biographical references yes
Areas of Research yes
Discoveries Made yes

Notes This article is a short biography of Henrietta Leavitt's life and her contribution to physics.