4.
Material on Some Specific Living Astronomers who are Women
 Bell
Burnell, Jocelyn (1943 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Bell Burnell.
Bell
Burnell, Jocelyn "Little Green Men, White Dwarfs, or What?"
in Sky & Telescope, Mar. 1978, p. 218.
Bell
Brunell, Jocelyn "So Few Pulsars, So Few Females" in Science,
23 April 2004, vol. 304. no. 5670, p. 489. (On line at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/304/5670/489)
Greenstein,
George "Neutron Stars and the Discovery of Pulsars" in
Mercury (the magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific),
Mar/Apr. 1985, p. 34 and May/June 1985, p. 66.
Reed
G. "The Discovery of Pulsars: Was Credit Given Where it was
Due?" in Astronomy, Dec. 1983, p. 24.
Wade,
N. "Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Story"
in Science, Aug. 1, 1975, p. 358.
Web
Sites:
Citation
and Interview when she was Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society:
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1481
Interview
on the BBC Program Belief (both about her religious view and her
science): http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/belief/
scripts/jocelyn_bell_burnell.html
Her
talk on Astronomy and Poetry at the University of Bath:
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/993144
Royal
Institution (Public) Discourse in 1997 ("Tick Tick Tick Pulsating
Star") by Bell Burnell:
http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/69 (a video)
Brief
biography at the Contributions of Women to Physics Site: http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Burnell,_Jocelyn_Bell@841234567.html
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/burnell.html
Brief
Bio at Project NOVA site from California State U. at Pomona: http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/burn.html
1977
After-dinner Speech about her Discovery of Pulsars (text):
http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm
Encyclopedia
of World Biography Entry:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/bellburnell_s.htm
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 Burbidge,
Margaret (1919 - )
Arp,
Halton & Fraknoi, Andrew "The Award of the 1982 Bruce Medal
to Margaret Burbidge" in Mercury (the magazine of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific), Sep/Oct. 1982, p. 154.
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Burbidge.
Burbidge,
Margaret "Watcher of the Skies" in Annual Reviews of
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1994, vol. 32, p. 1 (An auto-biographical
article in a technical volume; available on line at: http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?
bibcode=1994ARA%26A..32....1B)
Croswell,
Ken The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the
Milky Way. 1995, Doubleday. See Chapter 9.
Reed,
J. "A Great Woman Astronomer Leaves England Again" in
Smithsonian, Jan. 1974, p. 34.
Rubin,
Vera "Margaret Burbidge: AAAS President-Elect" in Science,
vol. 211, p. 915 (Feb. 27, 1981). On the web at: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/burbidge-rubin.html
"The
Stargazer" in Time magazine, Mar. 20, 1972, p. 38.
Web
Sites:
Bruce
Medal Profile:
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/BurbidgeM/
Interview
with David DeVorkin at the Center for the History of Physics from
1978: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/25487.html
Short
bio at Contributions of Women to Physics site: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Burbidge,_E._Margaret@932123456.html
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/burbidge.html
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of contents
 Faber,
Sandra (1944 - )
Dressler,
Alan Voyage to the Great Attractor. 1994, Knopf. Story of
how we learned to explore the large-scale structure of the realm
of the galaxies, focusing on the astronomers who call themselves
the "Seven Samurai" (of which Faber is one).
Lemonick,
Michael The Light at the Edge of the Universe. 1993, Villard/Random
House. See especially Chapter 6.
Lightman,
Alan & Brawer, Roberta "Interview with Sandra Faber"
in Origins. 1990, Harvard U. Press.
Web
Sites:
Her
Web Page at Lick Observatory:
http://www.ucolick.org/~board/faculty/faber.html
Interview
with Patrick McCray for the Center for the History of Physics 2002:
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/25489.html
Bio
Page at the Contribution of Women to Physics Site at UCLA: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Faber,_Sandra_Moore@931234567.html
1995
Autobiographical Sketch:
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/faber.htm
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/faber.html
table
of contents
 Fischer,
Debra (1953 - )
Naeye,
Robert "Unlocking New Worlds" in Astronomy, Nov.
2002, p. 48. A profile and discussion of her work.
Web
Sites:
Her
web site at San Francisco State University:
http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~fischer/
Interview
at the Woman Astronomer site:
http://www.womanastronomer.com/dfischer.htm
Her
talk on Extra-solar Planets in San Francisco May 2008 (video): http://fora.tv/2008/05/15/The_Search_for_a_World_Like_Our_Own_Imagine_Earth_20
Her
article about finding planets in Mercury magazine:
http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/0004/fischer.html
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of contents
 Freedman,
Wendy (1957 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Freedman.
Ferguson,
Kitty Measuring the Universe. 1999, Walker. Chronicle of
how distances were found in the universe, with good discussions
of contributions by individual astronomers.
Stephens,
Sally "Hubble Warrior" in Astronomy, March 2000,
p. 52. Profile of her work trying to find the Hubble constant and
other cosmological parameters.
Web
Sites:
Interview
from April 2004, at the National Academy of Sciences (about her
life and work):
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?
pagename=INTERVIEWS_Wendy_Freedman
Brief
Biography at Women Astronomer site:
http://www.womenastronomers.com/star.php?Id=3
table
of contents
 Geller,
Margaret (1947 - )
Ames,
Joan. Mastery: Interviews with 30 Remarkable People. 1997,
Rudra Press.
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Geller.
Chaikin,
Andrew "Surveyor of the Universe" in Air & Space,
Aug./Sept. 1991; vol. 6, p. 84.
Geller,
Margaret. "The Big Picture" in Natural History,
Feb. 2000, vol. 109, p. 74.
Goldsmith,
Donald The Astronomers. 1991, St. Martin's Press. The chapter
entitled "Mapping the Universe" profiles Geller's life
and work.
Greenstein,
George Portraits of Discovery. 1998, John Wiley. Chapter
8 of this collection of biographical articles is about Margaret
Geller and John Huchra.
Lawler,
Andrew "Margaret Geller: Battling Discrimination or Bureaucracy?"
in Science, 12 November 1999; vol. 286. no. 5443, p. 1277.
Lemonick,
Michael The Light at the Edge of the Universe. 1993, Villard/Random
House. See especially Chapter 3.
Lightman,
Alan & Brawer, Roberta "Interview with Margaret Geller"
in Origins. 1990, Harvard U. Press.
Overbye,
Dennis Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos. 1992, HarperCollins.
See Chapter 19.
Wiley,
John "Margaret Geller: Star Mapper" in Astronomy,
Nov. 2000; vol. 28. p. 104.
Web
Sites:
Her
web page at Smithsonian:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~mjg/
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/geller.html
Her
1995 Phi Beta Kappa Address at Harvard:
http://gos.sbc.edu/g/geller.html
Margaret
Geller Giving a Talk on "When Galaxies Collide" (2004,
video): http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/Flash/
5071fa3c-293a-4256-8003-20cfb88167ad/index.html
Her
poignant essay on Science and Society, "Black Ribbon"
from Science Magazine (1998):
http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/full/281/5381/1278
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of contents
 Ghez,
Andrea (1965 - )
Freedman,
David "The Mysterious Middle of the Milky Way" in Discover
Magazine, Nov. 1998. Features her work.
Ghez,
Andrea & Cohen, Judith You Can Be a Woman Astronomer.
2006, Cascade Press. A picture book for children from grades 3 -
5, includes a discussion of her own beginnings.
Web
Sites:
Her
web page at UCLA:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/
Her
2003 UCLA Faculty Lecture on "Unveiling the Black Hole at the
Center of the Galaxy":
http://www.webcast.ucla.edu/Webcast/FRL/Ghez/
Brief
story about her on "My Hero" web page:
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=A_M_Ghez_06
Interview
with her for the PBS TV Show NOVA in 2006:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/explorer.html
Interview
for ABC's "Science Show":
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1652905.htm
Brief
Biography on the Poster Project Site:
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/posterproject/biographies/ghez.html
table
of contents
 Hammel,
Heidi (1960 - )
Bortz,
Fred: Beyond Jupiter: The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi
Hammel (2005, Franklin Watts/Scholastic & Joseph Henry Press).
A colorful profile of Hammel as a person and scientists, written
for teenagers (but enjoyable reading for everyone.)
Flanagan,
R. "Observer of the Gas Giants" in Astronomy, July
1997, p. 50.
Web
Site:
Her
web page at the Space Science Institute: http://www.spacescience.org/about_ssi/staff/hammel.html
Brief
answer to what made her become an astronomer and a Field Journal
at the NASA Quest Site:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/hst/people/hammel.html
Her
answers to frequently asked questions at the site for the kids'
book about her: http://www.fredbortz.com/HammelBio/AstroFAQ.htm
An
hour interview of Minnesota Public Radio about the successor telescope
to the Hubble and her work:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/05/midmorning2/
Some
reminiscences by her brother:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1373765
Interview
about her involvement in education: http://ssibroker.colorado.edu/Rolesmatrix/matrix/element27/hammel_profile.pdf
Her
two appearances on the Planetary Society radio program: http://www.planetary.org/radio/archive/guest/173/
Interview in
Newsweek, Nov. 26, 2007:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/70975
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of contents
 Luu,
Jane (1963 - )
Bartusiak,
Marcia "The Remarkable Odyssey of Jane Luu" in Astronomy,
Feb. 1996, p. 46.
Davies,
John Beyond Pluto: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System.
Chapter 4 features Luu's life and work.
Flamsteed,
Sam ""Where Comets Come from - Hubble Space Telescope
Provides Evidence for Kuiper Belt" in Discover, Nov.
1995, p. . Includes some about her life and early work.
Web
Site:
Interview
from 2003 (with a lot of biographical information) at Imagiverse
Site: http://www.imagiverse.org/interviews/janeluu/jane_luu_21_03_03.htm
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