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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

American astronomer.

Born July 4th, 1868 in Lancaster.

Died December 12th, 1921 at 53 years old in Cambridge (cancer).

Occupations
astronomer

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. Horace