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Author
Altschuler, Daniel R., author.
Title
The women of the moon : tales of science, love, sorrow, and courage / Daniel R. Altschuler, Fernando J. Ballesteros.
Publication Info.
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
©2019
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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department
509 ALTSCHULER
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Edition
First edition.
Description
x, 299 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Understanding the Moon -- Lunar Nomenclature -- Women of the moon -- Hypatia of Alexandria (355 or 370-415) -- Catherine of Alexandria (~287-~305) -- Nicole-Reine de la Briere Lepaute (1723-1788) -- Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848) -- Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872) -- Anne Sheepshanks (1789-1876) -- Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816-1900) -- Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) -- Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) -- Sofia Vasílyevna Kovalévskaya (1850-1891) -- Annie Scott Dill Russell Maunder (1868-1947) -- Williamina Paton Fleming (1857-1911) -- Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) -- Antonia Maury (1866-1952) -- Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921) -- Mary Adela Blagg (1858-1944) -- Mary A. Proctor (1862-1957) -- Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934) -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Louise Freeland Jenkins (1888-1970) -- Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896-1975) -- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) -- Judith Arlene Resnik (1949-1986) -- Sharon Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986) -- Kalpana Chawla (1962-2003) -- Laurel Blair Salton Clark (1961-2003) -- Valentina Vladímirovna Nikolayeva Tereshkova (1937- ).
Summary
"Detailed accounts of the lives and achievements of the 28 women who each have a crater on the Moon named in their honour"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject
Women in science.
Women scientists.
Lunar craters.
Moon.
Lunar craters. (OCoLC)fst01003693
Women in science. (OCoLC)fst01177977
Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
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Ballesteros, Fernando J., author.
ISBN
0198844417 (hardback)
9780198844419 (hardback)
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