How to pronounce “leavitt” in English

And Henrietta Leavitt, I haven't mentioned her yet, but she was an astronomer known as the star fiend.

to the Leavitt Law.

So that's Miss Leavitt with the magnifying glass and Miss Cannon with her stellar classification and Dr. Payne with her primary constituents of the stars.

then from Henrietta Leavitt's work, I know how intrinsically bright it is.

and she mentioned the name Henrietta Leavitt to me.

And I had never heard of Henrietta Leavitt.

And then there was a book just about Henrietta Leavitt called "Miss Leavitt's Stars" by George Johnson.

had already been studied for decades by a woman named Henrietta Leavitt, who said, "Oh, these are what we call Cepheid variable stars,

And so there's Annie Cannon at the light table, and that's Henrietta Leavitt standing at the back.

Harlow Shapley took over as director of the observatory after Pickering died, and he used Ms. Leavitt's stars

Just about everybody's in this picture, everybody I've mentioned, except for Miss Leavitt.

And these classes of stars that do this brightening and faintening over time had already been studied for decades by a woman named Henrietta Leavitt, who said,