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

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