Henrietta Swan Leavitt

You wish you were as good of an astronomer as me

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

If I was a Man I would have earned a B.A. in June of 1892, but I guess having a uterus means that the work I did doesn’t count😄

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

What do you guys have named after you? I have an asteroid and a moon crater named after me

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

I‘m partially deaf so sorry if I don’t you leeches whining

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

Harlow Shapely once said “Her discovery of the relation of period to brightness is destined to be one of the most significant results of stellar astronomy, I believe.”

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

I got nominated for the ✨nobel prize✨ shame I had already croaked by that point

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@GoldnoseTycho His codpiece ain’t very impressive

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

No place I’d rather spend the late winter of 1903 than Naples, Italy

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

Don’t work at the Harvard Observatory- Those ratbags didn‘t pay me a dime until 1902

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@toohipptoquit Says the old hag who died, disintegrated, and got reabsorbed by the earth before the Nobel prize even existed 😘

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@toohipptoquit Shes great, two of her kids died as infants ❤️

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@toohipptoquit how did your mom feel after giving birth to a hippopotamus (hipp-are-cus)

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

I attended Oberlin College, Radcliffe College, and Cambridge College. What places did y’all get your degrees at? Walmart?

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

Fun fact: Two of my siblings died before age 2

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@lilmisscomet does that make you the runt of your family?

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

Did you know I worked for Harvard? #youwish

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

Thanks to my work the period-luminosity curve was able to be calibrated, which was used to determine the distances of many cepheid stars

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@_edwinhubble your discovery of the distance to the andromeda galaxy couldn’t have happened without me

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@_GeorgeSpace_ @bestastronomer_ Kinda bold thing for someone whose son got fired for sexual harassment and assault to say, but whatever

[Henrietta Swan Leavitt @HSwan1868]

@YourFriendAl76 Does your wife know how familiar you are with barmaids? <3