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

Recounts the story of Radcliffe-educated Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who in the face of ill health and progressive hearing loss discovered a new law that enabled astronomers to use variable stars in order to measure the universe, a finding that solved a key scientific mystery and enabled important breakthroughs. Reprint.