The Sky Is for Everyone
Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2022
504 pages
978-0-691-23736-7 (ISBN)
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Virginia Trimble is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. An award-winning astronomer, she earned her PhD at Caltech in 1968, when some leading universities did not admit women. David A. Weintraub is professor of astronomy, history, and the communication of science and technology at Vanderbilt University. His books include Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go (Princeton).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- 1. Beginnings
- 2. Anne Pyne Cowley (PhD, 1963): Navigating My Life with the Stars
- 3. Ann Merchant Boesgaard (PhD, 1966): Making Things Work
- 4. Sidney Wolff (PhD, 1966): Changing the Landscape
- 5. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (PhD, 1968): Kites Rise against the Wind
- 6. Virginia Trimble (PhD, 1968): Breaking through the Telescopic Glass Ceiling
- 7. Roberta M. Humphreys (PhD, 1969): Be Your Own Advocate
- 8. Silvia Torres-Peimbert (PhD, 1969): An Astronomer in Mexico
- 9. Neta A. Bahcall (PhD, 1970): My Life in Astronomy
- 10. Catherine Cesarsky (PhD, 1971): Equations, Satellites, and Telescopes
- 11. Judith ( Judy) Gamora Cohen (PhD, 1971): A Long and Winding Road
- 12. Judith Lynn Pipher (PhD, 1971): Taking Advantage of Opportunity
- 13. Gillian ( Jill) Knapp (PhD, 1972): Princeton 1984
- 14. Patricia Ann Whitelock (PhD, 1976): The Southern Half of the Sky
- 15. Anneila I. Sargent (PhD, 1977): A Long Way for a Wee Lassie
- 16. Martha P. Haynes (PhD, 1978): Hands-on Adventures with Telescopes: From the Backyard to Cerro Chajnantor
- 17. France Anne Córdova (PhD, 1979): The Learn'd Astronomer Discovers the Policy World
- 18. Dina Prialnik (PhD, 1980): From Stars to Comets and Back
- 19. Beatriz Barbuy (PhD, 1982): From Stargazing the Southern Cross to Probing the Depths of the History of the Milky Way
- 20. Rosemary (Rosie) F. G. Wyse (PhD, 1983): A Journey through Space and Time
- 21. Bozena Czerny (PhD, 1984): A Fortunate Sequence of Events
- 22. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (PhD, 1984): Building a Worldwide Astrochemistry Community
- 23. Wendy L. Freedman (PhD, 1984): My Astronomical Journey
- 24. Meg Urry (PhD, 1984): The Gentlemen and Me
- 25. Cathie Clarke (PhD, 1987): An Astronomer (Not a Pirate!) of Penzance
- 26. Saeko S. Hayashi (PhD, 1987): From Six Meters to Thirty Meters, Ever Expanding Horizons
- 27. Grazina Tautvaisiene (PhD, 1988): The Unfading Joy of Being an Astronomer
- 28. Carole Mundell (PhD, 1995): Inspired by a Maths Dress
- 29. Gabriela (Gaby) González (PhD, 1995): Gravitational Love
- 30. Vicky Kalogera (PhD, 1997): Not Taking "No" for an Answer: Learning How to Persist and Persevere with a Smile
- 31. Priyamvada Natarajan (PhD, 1999): Adventures Mapping the Dark Universe
- 32. Dara J. Norman (PhD, 1999): On Becoming an Astronomer and Advancing Science
- 33. Sara Seager (PhD, 1999): Adventures in the Search for Other Earths
- 34. Hiranya Peiris (PhD, 2003): From Serendip to Serendipity
- 35. Poonam Chandra (PhD, 2005): A Train to the Stars
- 36. Xuefei Chen (PhD, 2005): Staring at the Stars
- 37. Shazrene S. Mohamed (PhD, 2009): The Sky Is for Everyone
- 38. Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew (PhD, 2010): Flipping Tables from the Sonoran Desert to the Stars
- 39. Postlude
- Further Reading and Additional Resources
- Index of Subjects
- Index of People
