Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson

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

Great Discoveries

George Johnson

162 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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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 ac...

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