The Woman Who Counted Stars and Shattered the Universe

In the 1910s, Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered a relationship hidden in the pulsing of distant stars that would hand astronomers a ruler capable of measuring the cosmos itself — yet she died before anyone fully credited her for it, and one scientist tried to nominate her for a Nobel Prize without knowing she was already gone. This episode traces how a deaf Harvard 'computer' working for pennies an hour quietly dismantled every assumption about the size of everything. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.