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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 - Paperback

by George Johnson
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:George JohnsonSeries:Great DiscoveriesPublish date:2006-06-17Pages:176
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393328561ISBN-10:393328562UPC:9780393328561Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Physics, Space Science, WomenBook Topic:Astrophysics, CosmologySize:7.86 x 6.14 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC50KEF6QJ

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.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393328561ISBN-10:393328562UPC:9780393328561Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Physics, Space Science, WomenBook Topic:Astrophysics, CosmologySize:7.86 x 6.14 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC50KEF6QJ
Johnson, George: - George Johnson, an award-winning science journalist, is the author of several books, most recently The Cancer Chronicles and Strange Beauty. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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