Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. FINDING SPACE: STELLAR DECODERS WHO CATALOGED THE UNIVERSE ANNIE JUMP CANNON, ANNA DRAPER, WILLIAMINA FLEMING, ANTONIA MAURY, CECILIA PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN, AND THE WOMEN OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY
  • 2. ABOUT TIME: DISCOVERERS OF THE BIG BANG HENRIETTA LEAVITT AND MARGARET BURBIDGE
  • 3. ESCAPE VELOCITY: PATHFINDERS IN SPACE EXPLORATION MARY GOLDA ROSS, JOYCE NEIGHBORS, DILHAN ERYURT, CLAUDIA ALEXANDER, AND THE WOMEN WHO POWERED NASA'S SPACE PROGRAM
  • 4. A MATTER OF CHOICE: RADIOACTIVITY RESEARCHERS HARRIET BROOKS AND MARIE SKŁODOWSKA CURIE
  • 5. BINDING ENERGY: THE ATOM SPLITTER LISE MEITNER
  • 6. FORCES OF NATURE: THE SUBATOMIC PHOTOGRAPHERS MARIETTA BLAU, HERTHA WAMBACHER BIBHA CHOWDHURI AND ELISA FROTA-PESSOA
  • 7. ASYMMETRY: NATURE’S RULEBREAKERS CHIEN-SHIUNG WU AND VERA RUBIN
  • EPILOGUE
  • THE SCIENTIFIC RECORD
  • DIGGING DEEPER

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. FINDING SPACE: STELLAR DECODERS WHO CATALOGED THE UNIVERSE ANNIE JUMP CANNON, ANNA DRAPER, WILLIAMINA FLEMING, ANTONIA MAURY, CECILIA PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN, AND THE WOMEN OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY
  • 2. ABOUT TIME: DISCOVERERS OF THE BIG BANG HENRIETTA LEAVITT AND MARGARET BURBIDGE
  • 3. ESCAPE VELOCITY: PATHFINDERS IN SPACE EXPLORATION MARY GOLDA ROSS, JOYCE NEIGHBORS, DILHAN ERYURT, CLAUDIA ALEXANDER, AND THE WOMEN WHO POWERED NASA'S SPACE PROGRAM
  • 4. A MATTER OF CHOICE: RADIOACTIVITY RESEARCHERS HARRIET BROOKS AND MARIE SKŁODOWSKA CURIE
  • 5. BINDING ENERGY: THE ATOM SPLITTER LISE MEITNER
  • 6. FORCES OF NATURE: THE SUBATOMIC PHOTOGRAPHERS MARIETTA BLAU, HERTHA WAMBACHER BIBHA CHOWDHURI AND ELISA FROTA-PESSOA
  • 7. ASYMMETRY: NATURE’S RULEBREAKERS CHIEN-SHIUNG WU AND VERA RUBIN
  • EPILOGUE
  • THE SCIENTIFIC RECORD
  • DIGGING DEEPER

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Shohini Ghose’s Her Space, Her Time

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