Henrietta Swope, from the 1925 yearbook of Barnard College
Born
(1902-10-26)October 26, 1902
St. Louis, Missouri
Died
November 24, 1980(1980-11-24) (aged 78)
Los Angeles, California[1]
Alma mater
Barnard College (BA) Radcliffe College (MA)
Known for
Distances to Galaxies
Awards
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (1968)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Institutions
Carnegie Institution for Science
Henrietta Hill Swope (October 26, 1902 – November 24, 1980)[2] was an American
astronomer who studied variable stars. In particular, she measured the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid stars, which are bright variable stars whose periods of variability relate directly to their intrinsic luminosities. Their measured periods can therefore be related to their distances and used to measure the size of the Milky Way and distances to other galaxies.
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