The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Henrietta Leavitt People and Discoveries [PBS]
• Brief biography [San Jose State University Virtual Museum] Henrietta Swan Leavitt [Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem]
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt Hands On Astrophysics [American Association of Variable Star Observers]
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt---Lady of Luminosity [The Woman Astronomer]
• Hnerietta Swan Leavitt (available in both English and Spanish; aimed at secondary students) Windows to the Universe [University of Michigan]
• Wikipedia
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt Contributions of 20th-Century Women to Physics [UCLA]
• Photograph Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2000/09/03 [NASA]

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