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98 “masterpiece”: Rubin (2005), p. 1817.
98 “to work, not to think”: Payne-Gaposchkin (1984), p. 149.
98 “It is to be hoped, also, that the parallaxes [essentially, distances] of some variables of this type may be measured”: Leavitt and Pickering (1912), p. 3.
98 the cold aggravated her hearing condition: Johnson (2005), p. 31.
98 observatory's prime function was to collect and classify data: Jones and Boyd (1971), p. 369.
98 quickly assigned Leavitt another task: Johnson (2005), pp. 56–57.
98 “a harsh decision, which condemned a brilliant scientist to uncongenial work”: Payne-Gaposchkin (1984), p. 146.
99 “[It's] of enormous importance in the present discussions”: HUA, Shapley to Leavitt, May 22, 1920.
99 “Miss Leavitt had no understudy competent to take up her work”: HUA, Shapley to Frederick Seares, December 13, 1921.
99 nominate her for a Nobel Prize in physics: Johnson (2005), p. 118.
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103 at most around 20,000 to 30,000 light-years wide: Smith (1982), pp. 58–60.
104 “owe all to Hale and his dreams”: Wright (1966), p. 14.
104 Pickering discovered women and Hale discovered money: Rubin (2005), p. 1817.
104 “astronomical research with a feeling of awe”: Hale (1898), p. 651.
105 confirmed that the element carbon resided in the Sun: Wright (1966), p. 59.
105 “reaching up toward the heavens in the great dome”: Ibid., p. 71.
105 “I would not consider [joining the faculty] for a moment”: Ibid., p. 92.
107 “The donor could have no more enduring monument” … “send the bill to me”: Ibid., pp. 96–98.
107 “the embodiment and representative of corruption in municipal affairs”: Jones and Boyd (1971), p. 429.
107 “giants were plotting, fighting, dreaming on every hand”: Dreiser and Booth (1916), p. 172.
107 “Mr. Yerkes, when he took the matter in hand …”; “… shortly be licked”: Osterbrock (1984), p. 185.
108 “there may be some who view with disfavor”: Keeler (1897), p. 749.
108 grinding the mirror and designing its support system: Ritchey (1897).
108 The descendant of Irish immigrant craftsmen … reflectors were the instruments of astronomy's future: Osterbrock (1993), pp. 33–37.
108 reputation as a cantankerous cuss: Sandage (2004), pp. 96–97.
109 “The possibility of having you for a neighbor”: HP, Keeler to Hale, February 5, 1899.
109 “Wilson's Peak”: Wilson's Peak was named after Benjamin Davis Wilson, who in the 1850s was the first nonnative to explore the mountain, which was situated near his orchards and winery. Wilson was the grandfather of General George S. Patton Jr.
109 “the place”: Osterbrock (1984), p. 350.
109 Harvard briefly considered setting up a permanent telescope there: Wright (1966), p. 165.
110 “to encourage investigation, research and discovery”: Ibid., p. 159.
110 “seemed almost too good to be true”: Ibid.
110 surpassed the funds then endowed for research at all American universities combined: Hetherington (1996), p. 104.
110 start work on the mountain: Wright (1966), pp. 187–88.
110 His mistress, the Los Angeles socialite Alicia Mosgrove: Osterbrock (1993), p. 74.
110 “an inner excitement—a higher degree of interest—a higher degree of suffering”: Wright (1966), p. 198.
110 only a few farmhouses and barns nearby: Adams (1947), p. 223.
110 Jasper, Pinto, Duck, and Maude: Ibid., p. 218.
111 hundreds of tons of material were hauled up: Sandage (2004), pp. 165–67.
111 no imperfection extended farther than two millionths of an inch: Wright (1966), p. 228.
112 Hale decided he would not follow the Lick Observatory model: Sheehan and Osterbrock (2000), p. 101.
112 “Hale was never so happy”: Adams (1947), p. 223.
112 to see “the woods” instead of the trees: Wright, Warnow, and Weiner (1972), p. 273.
112 with all astronomers required to wear coat and tie: AIP, interview of Allan Sandage by Spencer Weart on May 22 and 23, 1978.
113 “partly because of the strong influence of Dr. Hale's remarkable personality”: HL, Walter Adams Papers, Box 1, Folder 1.15, “Autobiographical Notes.”
113 Harlow Shapley showed