4.
Material on Some Specific Living Astronomers who are Women (continued)
 Ride,
Sally (1951 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Ride.
Blacknall,
Carolyn Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space. 1984,
Dillon Press. A book for youngsters.
Camp,
Carole Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space. 1997, Enslow.
For young adults.
Cooper,
Henry Before Lift-off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew.
1987, Johns Hopkins U. Press. The veteran correspondent for The
New Yorker chronicles the training and flight of the crew for Shuttle
Flight 41G, which includes Sally Ride.
Hopping,
Lorraine Sally Ride: Space Pioneer. 2000, McGraw Hill. For
middle school and up.
Hurwitz,
Sue Sally Ride: Shooting for the Stars. 1989, Ballantine.
Also a book for kids.
Kramer,
Barbara Sally Ride: A Space Biography. 1998, Enslow. Another
book for kids.
Nichols,
Katherine Sally Ride. 2005, Children's Press. Also for children.
Orr,
Tamra Sally Ride: The First American Woman in Space. 2003,
Rosen Publishing. Part of the Astronaut Biographies series for youngsters.
Raum,
Elizabeth Sally Ride. 2005, Heinemann. Part of the "American
Lives" series for children.
Web
Sites:
Official
astronaut biography at NASA:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
Biography
at Sally Ride Science site:
http://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/bio
Biography
at Academy of Achievement Site:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/rid0bio-1
Interview
at the same site:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/rid0int-1
Brief
on-line chat at NASA Quest:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/chat_archives/ride03-23-99.html
Brief
biography at LucidCafe site:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/ride.html
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/ride.html
Brief
Biography at Aerospace Guide:
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/women_in_space/sally_ride.html
Brief
Biography at Engineer's Week Site:
http://www.eweek.org/site/news/Eweek/2007_marathon/Ride.shtml
2008
CBS News Special Report on What She is Doing Now (with video):
http://cbs2.com/specialreports/Sally.Ride.NASA.2.659919.html
5-min
Video on Her Concerns about Technical Education:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996560773716130827
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 Roman,
Nancy (1925 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Roman.
Croswell,
Ken The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the
Milky Way. 1995, Doubleday. See Chapter 8.
Silver,
Lily "Dr. Nancy G. Roman, the Astronomer's Astronomer"
in Profiles in Success: 40 Lives of Achievement. 1965, Fountainhead
Publishers.
Web
Sites:
Brief
Autobiographical Sketches at NASA Quest:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/women/nr.html
Her
Resume on line:
http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/planet/Nancy/Nancy.htm
An
excerpt from Armstrong's book section about her:
http://www.womenastronomers.com/roman.htm
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/roman.html
Interview
with David DeVorkin at the Center for the History of Physics from
1980:
http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4846.html
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 Rubin,
Vera (1928 - )
Bartusiak,
Marcia "The Woman Who Spins the Stars" in Discover,
Oct. 1990, p. 88. See also Bartusiak's book, Through a Universe
Darkly, 1993, HarperCollins, p. 202ff.
Boslaugh,
John Masters of Time: Cosmology at the End of Innocence.
1992, Addison-Wesley. Chapter 2 features Rubin's life and work.
Camp,
Carole American Astronomers: Searchers and Wonderers. 1996,
Enslow. One chapter of this book for teen readers is devoted to
Rubin's life and work.
Goldsmith,
Donald The Astronomers. 1991, St. Martins. Chapter 2 profiles
Vera Rubin.
Irion,
Robert "Vera Rubin Profile: The Bright Face Behind the Dark
Sides of Galaxies" in Science, vol. 295, no. 5557, p.
960 (Feb. 8, 2002).
Lightman,
Alan & Brawer, Roberta "Interview with Vera Rubin"
in Origins. 1990, Harvard U. Press.
Overbye,
Dennis Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos. 1992, HarperCollins.
Chapter 17 focuses on her work.
Rubin,
Vera "Women's Work: Women in Modern Astronomy" in Science
86, Jul/Aug. 1986, p. 58.
Rubin,
Vera Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters. 1997, American Institute
of Physics Press. A collection of her articles, including several
personal reminiscences.
Rubin,
Vera "Seeing Dark Matter in the Andromeda Galaxy" in Physics
Today, Dec. 2006, vol. 59, no. 12, p. 8. (More technical reminiscences.)
Schomaker,
William "Interview with Vera Rubin" (very brief) in Astronomy,
June 2003, p. 18.
Soter,
Steven & Tyson, Neil, eds. Cosmic Horizons. 2001, New
Press. See p. 94ff
Stephens,
Sally "Vera Rubin: An Unconventional Career" in Mercury
(the magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific), Jan/Feb.
1992, p. 38. An interview.
Tucker,
Wallace & Karen The Dark Matter. 1988, Morrow. See Chapter
6.
Web
Sites:
Brief
Biography at the Carnegie Institution:
http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/content/view/122/168/
Joe
Tenn's Bruce Medalist Profile of her:
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Rubin/index.html
Brief
Biography at the Lake Afton Observatory Women in Astronomy Page:
http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/vr.htm
Excerpt
from the book Cosmic Horizons, at the American Museum of Natural
History site, about her work:
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources//rfl/web/
essaybooks/cosmic/p_rubin.html
2002
Interview in Discover Magazine:
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/jun/breakdialogue
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/rubin.html
"Telling
Stories about the Universe", her 2003 public lecture at Princeton
(video):
http://www.listeningtowords.com/lecture.php?id=319
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Carolyn (1929 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Shoemaker.
Levy,
David "Star Trails: Carolyn Shoemaker" in Sky &
Telescope, June 1991, p. 658.
Levy,
David Shoemaker by Levy: The Man who Made an Impact. 2000,
Princeton U. Press. Biography of Eugene Shoemaker, but with much
information about Carolyn's work.
Preston,
Richard First Light. 1987, Atlantic Monthly Press. Section
2 is a profile of the Shoemakers.
Reeves,
R. "Interview with Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker: Meteor Crater
to Palomar" in Astronomy, June 1993, p. 13.
Shoemaker,
Carolyn "Ups and Downs in Planetary Astronomy" in Annual
Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, vol. 27, p. 1 (1999).
Reminiscences about her career.
Web
Sites:
Biography
at USGS Page:
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/CarolynShoemaker/
Biography
on the Universe Today Page:
http://www.universetoday.com/html/articles/2001-1211a.html
Brief
Biography at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Site:
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2001/05may/denver_c_shoemaker.cfm
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/shoemaker.html
1994
Article from New Scientist, with history and reactions to the discover
of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_shoemaker_a.htm
Brief
Biography at the Harcourt School Site:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies_science/shoemaker/
Excerpt
from the Book "Shoemaker by Levy" (see above) About Discovering
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:
http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s6909.html
Her
1998 Essay from Science Magazine on Space Exploration (with some
thoughts about her own life and work):
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/282/5394/1637
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Ellen
Stofan,
E. "Venus: The Way We Might Have Been" in Stern, S.A.,
ed. Our Worlds: The Magnetism and Thrill of Planetary Exploration.
1999, Cambridge U. Press; pp. 31-45. Combines a discussion of the
exploration of Venus with autobiographical information on her development
as a scientist.
Web
Sites:
Appearance
on Planetary Society web radio show discussing lakes on Titan:
http://www.planetary.org/radio/show/00000220/
JPL
Podcast with Slides on YouTube (about lakes on Titan):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PP5hSbwHXQ
(Transcript at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/jpl-cassini-20070103.html)
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 Tarter,
Jill (1944 - )
Armstrong,
Mabel Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars. 2008, Stone
Pine Press. This book for teens has a chapter on Tarter.
Drake,
Frank & Sobel, Dava Is Anyone Out There? 1992, Delacorte/Bantam.
Page 152 ff. Has a number of discussions of Tarter's life and work,
especially in Chapters 7 & 10.
Jackson,
Ellen Looking for Life in the Universe: The Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence. 2005, Houghton Mifflin. A profile of Tarter and
her work for young people in grades 4-8.
Lubick,
N. "An Ear to the Stars" in Scientific American,
Nov. 2002, p. 42. A brief profile of Tarter and her SETI work.
Swift,
David "Interview with Jill Tarter" in SETI Pioneers.
1990, U. of Arizona Press.
Web
Sites:
Her
web page at the SETI Institute:
http://www.seti.org/about-us/people/staff/tarter-jill.php
Profile
in Association for Women in Science Magazine 2005:
http://www.seti.org/pdfs/awis%20-%20tarter.pdf
Brief
Profile on CNN Site:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/15/tarter/index.html
Interview
on the KQED Quest Program site 2008 (video):
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/interview-with-astronomer-jill-tarter--
part-i-web-only
Profile
at Cornell University alumni site (1997):
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/97/6.26.97/Tarter.html
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/tarter.html
Her
lecture at the Long-Now Foundation on "The Search for Extra-terrestrial
Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy" (2004 audio):
http://www.listeningtowords.com/person.php?id=37
Her
lecture on the Allen Telescope Array and SETI at the Silicon Valley
Astronomy Lectures (2008 audio):
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html
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Virginia
Trimble,
Virginia Visit to a Small Universe. 1992, American Institute
of Physics Press. A collection of her articles, including several
that bear on her own life and work.
Web
Sites:
Her
home page at U. of California, Irvine:
http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/trimble.html
Brief
profile at the American Institute of Physics:
http://www.aip.org/history/historymatters/trimble.htm
Brief
profile at Johns Hopkins:
http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/td2201/trimble.pdf
Interview
on the "Science and Society" podcast:
http://www.scienceandsociety.net/audio/trimble.mp3
Transcript
of a brief interview about telescopes (with a bit about her life)
on ABC:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2000/148938.htm
Her
"Top 10" lists for the astronomy of the past and future:
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200010/astronomy.cfm
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Sidney (1941 - )
Waldrop,
Mitchell "New Director Named for Kitt Peak" in Science,
vol. 224, p. 265 (Apr. 20, 1984).
Wolff,
Sidney "A Search for Aperture: A Selective History of Telescopes"
in Mercury (the magazine of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific), Sep/Oct. 1985, p. 139.
Web
Sites:
Announcement
of her AAS Education Prize:
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr06/pr0605.html
Brief
Biography from the ASP's Women in Astronomy Slide Set:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/wolff.html
Her
speech for the 100th anniversary of the American Astronomical Society
(pdf file):
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v32n2/wolff.pdf
Brief
biography on her textbook page:
http://www.thomsonelearning.com/cengage/instructor.do?
product_isbn=9780495017905&codeid=2BB6&disciplinenumber=19&
courseid=AY03&sortby=copy&type=all_radio&codeFlag=true&maintab=
About_the_Book&subtab=About_the_Author
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(A Few) Articles or Books about Other Individual Women Astronomers
Baliunas,
Sallie: see Flamsteed, Sam "Star Spots: The Work of
Sallie Baliunas" in Discover, Dec. 1991, p. 29.
Boesgaard,
Ann "One Woman's Journey" in Mercury (the magazine
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific), Jan/Feb. 1992, p. 19.
Conklin,
Nan Dieter Two Paths to Heaven's Gate. 2006, NRAO Archives,
520 Edgemont Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903. A memoir by a pioneering
radio astronomer.
Donahue,
Megan "Clusters of Galaxies and the Fate of the Universe (or
How to be a Cosmologist without Really Trying" in Stern, S.
Alan, ed. Our Universe: The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration
as Told by Leading Experts. 2001, Cambridge U. Press; pp. 107-126.
Combines a discussion of her work and her development as a scientist.
Hu,
Esther "Looking Back in Time: Searching for the Most Distant
Galaxies" in Stern, S. Alan, ed. Our Universe: The Thrill
of Extragalactic Exploration as Told by Leading Experts. 2001,
Cambridge U. Press; pp. 23-36. Combines a discussion of her work
and her development as a scientist.
Sargent,
Anneila: see Goldsmith, Donald The Astronomers. 1991,
St. Martin's Press. See Chapter 12 of this book, which focuses on
the work of a few astronomers at the frontiers of science.
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