Astronomer (4-Jul-1868 — 12-Dec-1921)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

George Johnson. Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. New York: W.W. Norton. 2005. 162pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.428)

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.872)

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