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Leavitt
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Leavitt	has accomplishment discovered 2400 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud
	had appointment reaserch assistant, Harvard College Observatory, 1908
	is associated with Pickering
	has name Henrietta Leavitt
	has greatest achievement the Cepheid period-luminosity relation used in Cepheid distance determination
	is an instance of astronomer
	is an instance of 19th century scientist
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