Henrietta as First Name

Henrietta Swan Leavitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Henrietta Swan Leavitt: was an American astronomer, and the deaf daughter of a Congregational minister.[1] A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a 'computer,' assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plates led Leavitt to propound a groundbreaking theory, worked out while she labored as a $10.50-a-week assistant, that was the basis for the Nobel Prize-winning work of astronomer Edwin Hubble and radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which Leavitt received almost no credit during her lifetime.

Henrietta Ebert            Origin/Culture/Country: German
Henrietta Ebert: is a German rower, who won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was a member of the SC Dynamo Potsdam.[

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