First Light: The Astronomy Century In California, 19172017

Marcia Bartusiak from Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivers a talk titled “How the 100-Inch and a Variable Star Revealed Our Modern Universe.” This talk was included in the session titled “VAR!: Hale, Shapley, Hubble–and Beyond.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.