Click above to listen to part 1 of DecodeHer, featuring Lauren Gunderson, playwright of Silent Sky, which tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt, who measured the brightnesses of thousands of stars and discovered a way to gauge the distances to galaxies, a development that soon led to the concept of the Big Bang.
DecodeHer:
Part 1: Lauren Gunderson / Henrietta Leavitt
Part 2: Jason Fagone / Elizabeth Friedman
Part 3: Reshma Saujani / Girls Who Code
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