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Miss Leavitt's Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe, Paperback / softback Book

Miss Leavitt's Stars : The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe Paperback / softback

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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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