Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Johnson, George
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780393328561, Publication Date: Thu, June 1, 2006, Type: Paperback ,
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George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe--in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history.

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