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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe.(Brief article)(Book review)
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Leavitt, Henrietta Swan Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. George Johnson. New York: Norton, 2005. 176 pp. $22.85.
"About 40 women worked at the Harvard College Observatory between 1865 and 1920. Among them was Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921). Leavitt volunteered her services to the observatory a few years after graduating ...
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