The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words by David A. Weintraub, Virginia Trimble

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

David A. Weintraub, Virginia Trimble with Patricia Ann Whitelock, Saeko S. Hayashi, Gillian Knapp, Poonam Chandra, Meg Urry, Catherine Cesarsky, Priyamvada Natarajan, Neta A. Bahcall, Vicky Kalogera, Hiranya Peiris, Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Cathie Clarke, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Sara Seager, Gražina Tautvaišienė, Beatriz Barbuy, Xuefei Chen, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Dara J. Norman, Judith Gamora Cohen, Sidney Wolff, Martha P. Haynes, Dina Prialnik, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, France Anne Córdova, Anne Pune Cowley, Wendy L. Freedman, Anneila I. Sargent, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Shazrene S. Mohamed, Judith Lynn Pipher, Gabriela González, Carole Mundell, Roberta M. Humphreys, Bożena Czerny, Virginia Trimble

472 pages • hardcover • first pub 2022 • 2 editions

nonfiction biography science medium-paced

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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 ...