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Robert McNees on Nostr: Like her Harvard colleague Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was deaf – the ...

Like her Harvard colleague Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was deaf – the result of an illness she suffered after graduating from college but before she began her astronomy work.

Image: Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1913 (Harvard University Library)