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

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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. Dedications Epigraph 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 ThingsWork 4. Sidney Wolff (PhD, 1966): Changing the Landscape 5. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (PhD, 1968): Kites Rise against the Wind 6. VirginiaTrimble (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): Princeton1984 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. Bożena 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. Gražina Tautvaišienė (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