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8 Μαρ 2022 · From discovering planets to following comets, women all over the world play a crucial role in astronomy. While it's hard to pick the definitive list of women who have contributed to our...
5 Ιαν 2022 · Three particular early astronomical women display diverse scientific contributions, though the paths by which they entered the male world of astronomy are distinct. The eighteenth-century Frenchwoman Émilie du Châtelet and the nineteenth-century Scotswoman Mary Somerville each enhanced existing astrophysical theory, as described in the poet ...
10 Ιαν 2024 · Even well into the 20th century, despite their significant intellectual abilities, women astronomers faced barriers preventing them from seizing opportunities. This was the reality faced by women who wanted to pursue a career in astronomy.
8 Νοε 2023 · UChicago team chronicles dozens of women who worked and made discoveries in early 20th century. It all snowballed from a photo. On his first trip to the U.S. in 1921, Albert Einstein visited Yerkes Observatory, located in Wisconsin and run by the University of Chicago. Those present gathered for a photograph with the telescope.
25 Δεκ 2016 · Female astronomers broke the glass ceiling at the Harvard Observatory—and expanded our knowledge of the universe.
25 Απρ 2019 · Newton built telescopes, as did Galileo, who used his to discover four moons of Jupiter, a potentially unsettling discovery in a cosmos in which everything revolved around the earth. Telescopes, which first appeared in the early 17th century, quickly became our artificial eyes, showing us what our senses couldn’t.
18 Σεπ 2013 · HISTORY. The Women Who Mapped the Universe and Still Couldn’t Get Any Respect. At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped...
