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Astronomy : cool women in space / by Yasuda, Anita,author.(CARDINAL)465052; Chandhok, Lena,1987-illustrator.(CARDINAL)620349;
Includes bibliographical resources and index.Look up! -- A short story about a huge space -- Nancy Grace Roman -- Maggie Aderin-Pocock -- Andrea Ghez.Young readers will be inspired by stories of women who have made great strides in a field that takes courage, persistence, and creativity to pursue. Primary sources, essentials questions, and knowledge connections encourage both boys and girls to ask what role they might play in the next astronomical discovery.009-012.920L
Subjects: Aderin-Pocock, Maggie, 1968-; Ghez, Andrea Mia, 1965-; Roman, Nancy Grace, 1925-2018; Astronomy; Women astronomers;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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The sky is for everyone : women astronomers in their own words / by Trimble, Virginia,editor.; Weintraub, David A.(David Andrew),1958-editor.(CARDINAL)551581;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."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"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Essays.; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Her space, her time : how trailblazing women scientists decoded the hidden universe / by Ghose, Shohini,author.(CARDINAL)878171;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book tells the stories of women physicists from around the world who transformed science. Many of them discovered invisible objects in the universe, and all wore a cloak of invisibility throughout their careers. Their remarkable stories of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership and overcoming invisibility deserve to go viral"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Women physicists; Women astronomers; Physicists; Astronomers; Women in physics.; Women in astronomy.; Sex discrimination in science.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Women astronomers : reaching for the stars / by Armstrong, Mabel.(CARDINAL)486359;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index.EnHeduanna : chief astronomer, priestess of the moon, goddess of the city -- Hypatia of Alexandria : astronomer, engineer, physicist, inventor -- Hildegard of Bingen : heard the music of the spheres -- Caroline Herschel : she and her brother revolutionized the study of astronomy -- Maria Mitchell : the most famous American astronomer of her time -- 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 Caetana Maury : developed a new system for classifying stars -- Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin : called the most brilliant astronomer of her generation -- Helen Sawyer Hogg : Canada's favorite astronomer for fifty years -- Margaret Burbidge : described the way chemical elements form in stars -- Nancy Roman : pioneered radio astronomy and orbiting observatories -- Vera Rubin : discovered the problem that dark matter solved -- Beatrice Tinsley : a brilliant career cut tragically short -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : discovered quasars -- Margaret Geller : found structure in the universe -- Carolyn Shoemaker : looks for comets that threaten Earth -- Sally Ride : astrophysicist and first U.S. woman in space -- Jill Tartar : searches for extra-terrestrial life -- Wendy Freedman : builds big telescopes and settles Hubble Constant -- A new generation of women reaches for stars and dreams.Recounts the participation of women in the field of astronomy from ancient history to the present day.
Subjects: Women in astronomy; Women astronomers.; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy;
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The Glass Universe :How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars / by Sobel, Dava,author.(CARDINAL)175638;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305) and index.Part one: The colors of starlight. Mrs. Draper's intent ; What Miss Maury saw ; Miss Bruce's largesse ; Stella nova ; Bailey's picture from Peru -- Part two: Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me!. Mrs. Fleming's title ; Pickering's "harem" ; Lingua franca ; Miss Leavitt's relationship ; The Pickering fellows -- Part three: In the depths above. Shapley's "kilo-girl" hours ; Miss Payne's thesis ; The Observatory Pinafore ; Miss Cannon's prize ; The lifetimes of stars -- Some highlights in the history of the Harvard College Observatory -- A catalogue of Harvard astronomers, assistants, and associates.The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.1330L
Subjects: Harvard College Observatory.; Astronomy.; Astronomy; Astronomy; History, Modern; Science; SCUEBCE; Women in astronomy.; Women in astronomy; Women mathematicians.; Women mathematicians;
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Searching beyond the stars : seven women in science take on space's biggest questions / by Mortillaro, Nicole,1972-author.(CARDINAL)593119; Key, Amanda,illustrator.(CARDINAL)885124;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-115) and index."An in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of seven . . . women in the world of astronomy and space study. With a focus on feminist and stem-related content, this non-fiction book is written by a Senior Science Reporter for CBC"--Provided by publisher.1130 L1130L
Subjects: Biographies.; Space sciences; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy; Astronomers; Astronomy; Women astronomers; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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The glass universe [large print] : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars / by Sobel, Dava,author.(CARDINAL)175638;
Includes bibliographical references.Part one: The colors of starlight. Mrs. Draper's intent ; What Miss Maury saw ; Miss Bruce's largesse ; Stella nova ; Bailey's picture from Peru -- Part two: Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me!. Mrs. Fleming's title ; Pickering's "harem" ; Lingua franca ; Miss Leavitt's relationship ; The Pickering fellows -- Part three: In the depths above. Shapley's "kilo-girl" hours ; Miss Payne's thesis ; The Observatory Pinafore ; Miss Cannon's prize ; The lifetimes of stars -- Some highlights in the history of the Harvard College Observatory -- A catalogue of Harvard astronomers, assistants, and associates.The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Harvard College Observatory.; Women in astronomy; Women mathematicians; Astronomy; Astronomy;
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The glass universe [sound recording] : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars / by Sobel, Dava,author.(CARDINAL)175638; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.(CARDINAL)347921;
Read by Cassandra Campbell.The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.--"In the late nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group consisted of the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges--Vassar, Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The "glass universe" of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades--through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography--enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish immigrant originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars, Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use today; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first woman professor of astronomy at Harvard--and Harvard's first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe."--Jacket of hardcover edition.Part one: The colors of starlight. Mrs. Draper's intent ; What Miss Maury saw ; Miss Bruce's largesse ; Stella nova ; Bailey's picture from Peru -- Part two: Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me!. Mrs. Fleming's title ; Pickering's "harem" ; Lingua franca ; Miss Leavitt's relationship ; The Pickering fellows -- Part three: In the depths above. Shapley's "kilo-girl" hours ; Miss Payne's thesis ; The Observatory Pinafore ; Miss Cannon's prize ; The lifetimes of stars -- Some highlights in the history of the Harvard College Observatory -- A catalogue of Harvard astronomers, assistants, and associates.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Harvard College Observatory.; Women in astronomy; Women mathematicians; Astronomy; Astronomy;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Women of science : righting the record / by Kass-Simon, G.(Gabriele)(CARDINAL)774823; Farnes, Patricia,1931-1985.(CARDINAL)774824; Nash, Deborah.(CARDINAL)774821;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Women in the field : the role of women in archaeology before 1960 / Cynthia Irwin-Williams -- Women in geology / Michele L. Aldrich -- Straying from their orbits : women in astronomy in America / Pamela E. Mack -- Contributors to American mathematics : an overview and selection / Judy Green and Jeanne Laduke -- Women in the intellectual development of engineering : a study in persistence and systems thought / Martha Moore Trescott -- Intellectual contributions of women to physics / L. M. Jones -- Biology is destiny / G. Kass-Simon -- Women in medical science / Patricia Farnes -- Women in chemistry / Jane A. Miller -- Women in crystallography / Maureen M. Julian.
Subjects: Women in science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sky's the limit : stories of discovery by women and girls / by Thimmesh, Catherine.; Sweet, Melissa,1956-illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.To obtain knowledge of, as through observation or study: It sure is dark out there / Vera Rubin -- Let's start at the very beginning / Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- The little rover that could / Donna Shirley -- Tools in the jungle / Jane Goodall -- To be the first to find, learn of, or observe: Biggest, baddest, best / Sue Hendrickson -- The longest day of the year / Anna Sofaer -- My, what big teeth you have / Mary Leakey -- On the road again / June Moxon -- A desire to know or learn: Get the lead out / Katie Murray -- Up in smoke / Klara, Eli, Erin, Lindsey -- Drinkable puddles / Rachael Charles.Presents brief accounts of the work of a variety of women scientists in such fields as astronomy, biology, anthropology, and medicine.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science; Women in science; Science; Women in science.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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