Talk:Henrietta Swan Leavitt

message: The ACS Bio states that "Professor Mittag-Leffler of the Swedish Academy of Sciences sent her a letter in 1925, declaring his intent to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year for her role..." [my emphasis]
The claim that he "considered" her and that Shapley claimed 'interpretating' her results is supported by a non-English-language citation. (I.E. I can't read it.) This question deserves resolving. I've added '1926' to the awards section but found no further resolution.It further occurs to me that Shapley may have made the post-mortem claim in hopes that Harvard would reap a Nobel. Excuseable, perhaps. Twang (talk) 08:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel nomination 

message: This is a newly created cat by 28bytes on 17 February 2011.  — Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  06:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cat:Women in technology 

message: I'm bothered by the following quotation in the "Influence" secxtion, which (a) is more about Hubble than Leavitt, (b) strikes me as a put-down of Leavitt's work and (c) is purely subjective.  I've removed it to here.  If it belongs anywhere (which I doubt) it belongs with Hubble.
:"If Henrietta Leavitt had provided the key to determine the size of the cosmos, then it was Edwin Powell Hubble who inserted it in the lock and provided the observations that allowed it to be turned," wrote David H. and Matthew D.H. Clark in their book Measuring the Cosmos.
Zaslav (talk) 04:06, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faint praise 

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message: In the third paragraph under Biography - Early years and education, I added a clarification needed template after the sentence "However, invented the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs for her in 1898." The reason for this is that it is unclear who invented the title. I considered simply changing the sentence to "However, the title Curator of Astronomical Photographs was invented for her in 1898" to remove the need for a "who", but decided to add the clarification template instead in the hopes someone will know who invented the title.
Thanks,
Dbusb (talk) 19:11, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification Needed