Showing posts with label Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2013

Happy International Women's Day

AdaLovelaceIIHenrietta Swan LeavittInge Lehmann printHypatia2Lise MeitnerMme Wu

A collection of pioneers and revolutionaries in science, who were women, for International Women's Day. These women foresaw the potential of computer programming, set the scale of our universe, discovered the inner core of the Earth, were the preeminent mathematician of their time in Ptolemaic Egypt, discovered and explained nuclear fission, and discovered that the Weak force violates parity (the first discovery of 'symmetry breaking' in one of the fundamental forces of our universe).

Monday, September 20, 2010

Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the Blogosphere

Henrietta Swan Leavitt I'm catching up on one of my favorites, News From the Craft and Style Blogosphere and I just noticed that the September 2nd issue includes my Henrietta Swan Leavitt blockprint. Sweet!