Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Women Astronomers of Ancient Times
En Heduanna : Chief Astronomer Priestess of the Moon Goddess of the City.
Hypatia of Alexandria: Astronomer, Engineer, Physicist, Inventor.
Sondok: Queen of Kyongju, South Korea, built observatories.
Hildegard of Bingam: Heard the music of the spheres.
Chapter Two: Astronomy Becomes a Science
Caroline Herschel: She and her brother revolutionized the study of astronomy.
Chapter Three: America’s First Lady of Comets
Maria Mitchell: The most famous American astronomer of her time.
Chapter Four: Human Computers Before Silicon Chips
Williamina Stevens Fleming: Founding mother of the Harvard women astronomers.
Annie Jump Cannon: Built a star catalog of more than 350,000 stars
Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Discovered a way to measure distances between stars.
Antonia Maury: Developed a new system for classifying stars.
Chapter Five: Rise of the Academics
Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin: Called the most brilliant astronomer of her generation.
Helen Sawyer Hogg: Canada’s favorite astronomer for fifty years.
Chapter Six: More Questions Than Answers
Nancy Roman: Pioneer in radio astronomy and orbiting observatories.
Margaret Burbidge: Described the way chemical elements form in stars.
Vera Rubin: Discovered the problem that dark matter solved.
Chapter Seven: Exhilarating Discoveries, Painful Decisions
Beatrice Tinsley: A brilliant career cut tragically short.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Discovered quasars.
Margaret Geller: Found structure in the Universe.
Chapter Eight: Astronomical Challenges For the Twenty-First Century
Sally Ride: Astrophysicist and first U. S. woman in space.
Carolyn Shoemaker: Looks for comets that threaten Earth.
Jill Tartar: Searches for extra-terrestrial life.
Wendy Freedman: Builds big telescopes and settles Hubble Constant
Chapter Nine: Rising Stars: A New Generation of Women Reaches For The Stars
Victoria Kaspi, Emily Levesque, Kris Blindert, Maggie Turnbull,
Tesla Jeltema, Andrea Ghez, Chung-Pei Ma, Ekaterina Evstigneeva, Meg Urry,
Marla Geha, Alicia Soderberg, Jogee Shardha, Susan Tereby, Kim Venn
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Tania Rui
Index
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