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      • Charles Leavitt (born 1956) [citation needed] is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film Blood Diamond.
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  2. Charles Leavitt (born 1956) [citation needed] is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film Blood Diamond . Life and career. Leavitt's screenwriting career began in 1996 when his screenplay The Sun Chaser was produced to film by Michael Cimino .

  3. Charles Leavitt (born 1956) is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film Blood Diamond. Life and career. Leavitt's screenwriting career began in 1996 when he wrote Sunchaser. He wrote the screen adaptation of the Rodman Philbrick novel Freak the Mighty for the screen in 1998.

  4. Jan 30, 2020 · Leavitt’s discovery formed the bedrock of perhaps some of the greatest, and most well-known, achievements in astronomy –– credited mostly to male astronomers. Without Leavitt, for instance,...

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  5. Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern ...

  6. Nov 12, 2016 · Leavitt is best known for discovering about 2,400 variable stars between 1907 and 1921 (when she died). She discovered that some of these stars have a consistent brightness no matter where...

  7. She was one of a corps of women assistants known as “computers.” Her job was to study a vast number of photographs of the night sky and gather data about the nature of the stars. Leavitt's position was relatively novel for the time.

  8. Mar 12, 2021 · Known as the period-luminosity relationship, Leavitt’s insights allowed astronomers to measure distance on an intergalactic scale and gave Hubble the formula he needed to see outside our...

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