A new book titled 'Her Space, Her Time' puts underappreciated women physicists and astronomers squarely in the spotlight.
These are just four of the women physicists profiled in"Her Space, Her Time": Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Vera Rubin and Claudia Alexander. explains why women astronomers and physicists have been mostly invisible in the past — and profiles 20 researchers who lost out on what should have been Nobel-level fame.
She wasn’t able to follow up on her findings, in part due to shortages brought on by World War II. Instead, it was a British physicist named Cecil Powell who won the Nobel Prize in 1950 forThat’s the way it typically went with the other women researchers profiled in Ghose’s book. The litany includes, who in the early 1900s came up with a stellar classification system that’s still in use today.
You could argue that NASA executives and other leaders of the scientific community already have learned their lesson, at least when it comes to naming telescopes., a wide-angle survey telescope that’s expected to revolutionize ground-based astronomy starting in the mid-2020s, pays tribute to one of the women astronomers profiled in “Her Space, Her Time.
“They have slower paths on their career journeys, so they don’t get promoted as much,” Ghose says. “They don’t get invited as much to give talks at major conferences, which are really important if you want to get those promotions. Grant funding levels are lower for women. So there is this whole series of issues, and these are structural problems.”
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