- Ejnar Hertzsprung was a Danish chemist and astronomer.
- He developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram along with Henry
Russell.
- He determined the distances to many Cepheid variable stars by
parallax and hence calibrated the relationship between Cepheid
period and luminosity.
- A Cepheid variable is a type of star that pulsates
radially,varying in both temperature and diameter and producing
changes in brightness in definite pattern.
- He worked on the classification system (Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram) for stars on the basis of :
Spectral type,
Stage in their development, and
Luminosity.
- He also discovered two asteroids.