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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Grea

Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 0393328562
EAN: 9780393328561
Category: #386516 in Paperback (Women)
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"A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements." ―Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review

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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