The Sky is for Everyone : : Women Astronomers in Their own Words

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Call Number: 520.92 Sk, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Astronomy / Sky is for everyone
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Navigating my life with the stars / Anne Pyne Cowley -- Making things work / Ann Merchant Boesgaard -- Changing the landscape / Sidney Wolff -- Kites rise against the wind / Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Breaking through the telescopic glass ceiling / Virginia Trimble -- Be your own advocate / Roberta M. Humphreys -- An astronomer in Mexico / Silvia Torres-Peimbert -- My life in astronomy / Neta A. Bahcall -- Equations, satellites, and telescopes / Catherine Cesarsky -- Long and winding road / Judith (Judy) Gamora Cohen -- Taking advantage of opportunity / Judith Lynn Pipher -- Princeton 1984 / Gillian (Jill) Knapp -- Southern half of the sky / Patricia Ann Whitelock -- A long way for a wee lassie / Anneila I. Sargent -- Hands-on adventures with telescopes : from the backyard to Cerro Chajnantor / Martha P. Haynes -- Learn'd astronomer discovers the policy world / France Anne Cordova -- From stars to comets and back / Dina Prialnik -- From stargazing the southern cross to probing the depths of the history of the Milky Way / Beatriz Barbuy -- A journey through space and time / Rosemary (Rosie) F.G. Wyse -- A fortunate sequence of events / Bozena Czerny -- Building a worldwide astrochemistry community / Ewine F. van Dishoeck.
My astronomical journey / Wendy L. Freedman -- Gentlemen and me / Meg Urry -- An astronomer (Not a pirate!) of Penzance / Cathie Clarke -- From six meters to thirty meters, ever expanding horizons / Saeko S. Hayashi -- Unfading joy of being an astronomer / Grazina Tautvaisiene -- Inspired by a maths dress / Carole Mundell -- Gravitational love / Gabriela (Gaby) Gonzalez -- Not taking "no" for an answer : learning how to persist and persevere with a smile / Vicky Kalogera -- Adventures mapping the dark universe / Priyamvada Natarajan -- On becoming an astronomer and advancing science / Dara J. Norman -- Adventures in the search for other earths / Sara Seager -- From serendip to serendipity / Hiranya Peiris -- A train to the stars / Poonam Chandra -- Staring at the stars / Xuefei Chen -- Sky is for everyone / Shazrene S. Mohamed -- Flipping tables from the Sonoran Desert to the stars.
"An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub vividly describe how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a father, brother, or husband to provide entry, and how the considerable intellectual skills of women astronomers were still not enough to enable them to pry open doors of opportunity for much of the twentieth century. After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before. Trimble and Weintraub bring together the stories of the tough and determined women who flung the doors wide open. Taking readers from 1960 to today, this triumphant anthology serves as an inspiration to current and future generations of women scientists while giving voice to the history of a transformative era in astronomy. With contributions by Neta Bahcall, Beatriz Barbuy, Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Catherine Cesarsky, Poonam Chandra, Xuefei Chen, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Cathie Clarke, Judith Gamora Cohen, France Anne Córdova, Anne Pyne Cowley, Bożena Czerny, Wendy L. Freedman, Gabriela González, Saeko S. Hayashi, Martha Patricia Haynes, Roberta Humphreys, Vicky Kalogera, Gillian Knapp, Shazrene S. Mohamed, Carole Mundell, Priyamvada Natarajan, Dara Norman, Hiranya Peiris, Judith Lynn Pipher, Dina Prialnik, Anneila I. Sargent, Sara Seager, Gražina Tautvaišienė, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Virginia Trimble, Meg Urry, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Patricia Ann Whitelock, Sidney Wolff, and Rosemary F. G. Wyse"-- Provided by publisher.

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