/sci/ - Science & Math

>Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a "computer", assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plates led Leavitt to propound a groundbreaking theory, worked out while she labored as a $10.50-a-week assistant, that was the basis for the pivotal work of astronomer Edwin Hubble. Leavitt's discovery of the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which she received almost no recognition during her lifetime.

hubble shits out some flawed data, plots an awful graph which he then just drew a line through, then one became of the most famous living astronomers. she received no recognition and died before anyone gave a shit.

but she was still a thousand times the scientist you will ever be you angsty little fuckwit.