Virginia Trimble

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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words Edited by Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub
An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe
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In dialogue: Writing women’s history We asked four of our authors the following question: What do we find when we read ‘women’ into histories that often exclude them? Read More

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Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub on The Sky is for Everyone The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Read More

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The women who opened the doors to astronomy In France, Dorothea Klumpke earned her Docteur-ès-Sciences at the University of Paris in mathematical astronomy in 1893, after completing her thesis, “L’etude des Anneaux de Saturne” (A study of the rings of Saturn), thereby becoming the first woman ... Read More