Miss Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
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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."Illuminating."
- Richard Panek - New York Times,
"The well-known science writer George Johnson fashions a fascinating picture of Miss Leavitt’s life…His grace in bringing her to life is matched by his lucidity in explaining difficult scientific concepts."
- Scientific American,
"An elegant and absorbing account of a signal event in humanity’s discovery of the deeper cosmos."
- Timothy Ferris, author of The Science of Liberty,
"Johnson paints a luminous portrait of Leavitt and shows how her patient work sparked an explosion of astronomical creativity."
- Laurence Marschall - Discover Magazine,
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.