The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage by Daniel R. Altschuler

Author:Daniel R. Altschuler [Altschuler, Daniel R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192582799
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2019-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 64 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter zoom on crater Maury (image width is 150 miles).

The Women of the Moon. Daniel R. Altschuler Stern and Fernando J. Ballesteros Roselló.

© Daniel R. Altschuler Stern and Fernando J. Ballesteros Roselló 2019. Published in 2019

by Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198844419.001.0001

1 Antonia C. Maury (1923). Verses to the Vassar Dome (a poem). Popular Astronomy, Vol. 31, p. 76.

2 Her mellifluous name was bestowed in honor of her Portuguese paternal grandmother, Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira, daughter of the physician to the Emperor John VI of Portugal.

3 The first woman was admitted to Yale in 1892. The first male student was admitted to Vassar in 1970.

4 Almost a decade later, in 1896, when she attended the traditional festival of the dome of the department of astronomy, she read a long poem she had composed dedicated to the Vassar College Observatory (a fragment of which is shown at the beginning of this chapter) that showed the happiness of that time.

5 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1996). An autobiography and other recollections. Cambridge University Press.

6 Edward C. Pickering (1890). On the spectrum of zeta Ursae Majoris. American Journal of Science, Vol. 39, p. 46.

7 This discovery was also made independently by another astronomer, the American Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957). The graph plotting out this phenomenon, one of the most important in the history of science, is called the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

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