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Her research has enabled astronomers to measure the distance between Earth and faraway galaxies, and Edwin Hubble used her research to determine that the universe is expanding. Leavitt also developed and refined the Harvard standard for photographic measurements. 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She discovered the first ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, and pterosaur skeletons, and made a living selling the fossils she found to tourists. Anning would search cliffs along the seaside near her house. These cliffs often had landslides that exposed fossils, which Anning needed to collect quickly before they were washed out to sea. One of these landslides nearly killed Anning in 1833. Her dog, Tray, was not so lucky. 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Mendel, who was an Augustinian friar, began studying heredity in mice, but ended up having to switch to plants when his bishop decided it wasn't appropriate for a friar to be studying animal sex. His pea plant experiments established many of the rules of heredity now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn addition to his experiments on the heredity of traits, Mendel also studied meteorology, astronomy, hawkweed and honey bees. He was dedicated to his studies, but struggled financially, and part of the reason he became a friar was to get an education without having to pay for it himself. 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She did this by documenting evidence on the life cycles of 186 insects, and was among the first professionally trained artists to illustrate her lifelong studies and observations. She observed many of these insects in 1699, when she sold 255 of her own paintings to fund a trip for her and her daughter to Suriname. 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