Henrietta S Leavitt is yet another woman who has been dismissed from much in the way of fame. Not unlike the stories in the recent film, "Hidden Figures", Henrietta played a pivotal role in her field, astronomy. But, because she was a woman, not only was her contribution truncated by not being given the same access to equipment as her male counterparts, but she remains relatively unacknowledged in the way, for example, Edwin Hubble has been by having the famous Hubble Telescope named after him.
Henrietta has her name on a moon crater and an asteroid.......😢
Seems a sad joke. And so continuously repeated.
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