Henrietta Hill Swope
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Gender | Female |
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Date of birth | October 26,1902 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | St. Louis |
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Died | Pasadena |
California | |
United States | |
Parents | Gerard Swope |
Awards | Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy |
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ID | 3532852 |
Henrietta Hill Swope Life story
Henrietta Hill Swope 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.