Wendy Freedman

That's right.

And she was astute enough to notice, you know, not only were these stars varying that she was finding in the large Magellanic cloud and the small Magellanic cloud, but there was this correlation.

The brighter stars were taking longer to go through their cycle of variations.

And this is the basis of what Hubble's discovery that there are other galaxies outside the Milky Way, that the universe is expanding.

We use it for the key project.

We use it today.

And she fell into obscurity.

She was kind of lost in the dustbins of history for a long time.

But we're recognizing her now.

And I think that's the New York Times actually wrote an obituary about her in 2024.

Yeah.

He died, I think, in 2021.

No, no, they wrote it fresh.

They're making an effort to try and they're recognizing that it wasn't just men who did things in those days in particular.

We now refer to the Levitt law and that there was a meeting at Harvard in 2008, which was the centennial of her first publication on the PL relations.

And we decided that it would be appropriate to rename it the Levitt Law.

I had actually been doing that for a while.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a Hubble Law.