Virginia Trimble - The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words

The Sky Is for Everyone

The Sky Is for Everyone

Women Astronomers in Their Own Words

Edited by VIRGINIA TRIMBLE and DAVID A. WEINTRAUB

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Jacket image: Nobel-laureate Andrea Ghez (UCLA) guides Keck Observatorys twin infrared lasers into the observable universe during a setting Full Moon in the early morning at 13,000 ft. elevation on Maunakea. Photo by Andrew Richard Hara.

To the memory of Maud Worcester Makemson (18911977), the first woman astronomer I ever met, and one of the most remarkable

Virginia Trimble

For Kelly Lee Weintraub and Lennon Leigh Weintraub

David A. Weintraub

Women hold up half the sky*

and some day it will be so in astronomy!

* MAO ZEDONG, 1949

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Anne Cowley on sailboat Stella Maris

2014 AAS Publications Board meeting

Plots of Lithium and Beryllium abundances in Hyades Cluster stars

Ann Boesgaard with husband Hans

The WIYN 3.5-meter primary mirror

View of telescopes from ridge known as Vista Sidney Wolff

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of the 4-acre telescope

Jocelyn Bell Burnell as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Virginia Trimble at the Grant measuring machine

Photograph showing proper motions of filaments in the Crab Nebula

Hubble Space Telescope images of three massive stars

Roberta Humphreys giving a talk on massive stars

Silvia Torres-Peimbert delivering a lecture

Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7009

Neta Bahcall in her office

The Bahcall family

Catherine Cesarsky in 2016

Catherine Cesarsky at the VLT

High-speed link from the U.S. mainland to the Maunakea summit

Jerry Nelson and Judy Cohen

Judy Pipher on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory

IR sensor array for NEO Surveyor camera

H I line profile towards the center of the Taurus dark cloud

Jill Knapp watching Neil Armstrong step onto the Moon

The changing total luminosity of SN 1987A

Patricia Whitelock with her nephew Bob Whitelock

Caltech students and postdocs at a conference in Ensenada

Anneila Sargent in front of OVRO telescopes

Martha Haynes taking measurements at CCAT Observatory site

National Academy of Sciences award ceremony

Official portrait photo of France Crdova as NSF director

NSF breakthroughs

Apparent similarity in temperature cycles of novae and comets

Dina Prialnik with her granddaughter Yarden

Beatriz Barbuy at the Acadmie des Sciences ceremony

Picture of globular cluster HP1

Rosemary Wyse in 2016

Poster advertising the 1999 ACP conference

Boena Czerny with colleagues

Ewine van Dishoeck at Leiden University

Ewine van Dishoeck working with students

Wendy Freedman in the control room of the 6.5-meter telescope

Plot of the periods and brightnesses of Cepheid variable stars

Meg Urry on the beach with sisters and brother

Women in Astronomy conference attendees, 1992

Cathie Clarke in 2016

Image of the dust rings surrounding young star CI Tau

Saeko Hayashi in 2017

Telescopes Saeko Hayashi has worked on

Graina Tautvaiien in 2014

Graina Tautvaiien and Bernard E. J. Pagel

Carole Mundell as a child in her maths dress

Carole Mundell in the Control Room at Jodrell Bank

Gaby Gonzlez and Jorge Pullin camping

Gaby Gonzlez at the LIGO facility in Louisiana

First gravitational-wave signal from GW150914

Vicky Kalogera and her research group

Priyamvada Natarajan paddling on the river Cam

Priyamvada Natarajan in her office at Yale

Example of gravitational lensing

Dr. Dara Norman on the lawn of the U.S. White House

Sara Seager in her office at MIT

A page from Hiranya Peiriss lab notebook

Portrait of Hiranya Peiris

Poonam Chandra bungee jumping

Poonam Chandra at the Square Kilometre Array headquarters

Xuefei Chen and the one-meter telescope

Xuefei Chen playing with her son

Shazrene Mohamed posing with a trophy in grade 3

Shazrene Mohamed at ROTC training

Yilen Gmez Maqueo Chew and the SAINT-EX telescope

Cerro Tetakawi in San Carlos, Sonora at sunset

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