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Where did Leavitt attend college?

  • Yale University

  • Radcliffe College

  • Harvard University

  • Princeton University

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Henrietta Leavitt attended Radcliffe College, a women's college affiliated with Harvard University. She was a gifted astronomer and mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of astronomy. Leavitt's most famous work was her discovery of the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars. This relation allowed astronomers to measure the distance to nearby galaxies, and it helped to establish the expanding universe.
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