27. Gražina Tautvaišienė (PhD, 1988): The Unfading Joy of Being an Astronomer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Prelude xxv
7. 1 Beginnings 1
8. 2. Anne Pyne Cowley (PhD, 1963): Navigating My Life with the Stars 31
9. 3. Ann Merchant Boesgaard (PhD, 1966): Making Things Work 40
10. 4. Sidney Wolff (PhD, 1966): Changing the Landscape 53
11. 5. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (PhD, 1968): Kites Rise against the Wind 63
12. 6. Virginia Trimble (PhD, 1968): Breaking through the Telescopic Glass Ceiling 73
13. 7. Roberta M. Humphreys (PhD, 1969): Be Your Own Advocate 85
14. 8. Silvia Torres-Peimbert (PhD, 1969): An Astronomer in Mexico 95
15. 9. Neta A. Bahcall (PhD, 1970): My Life in Astronomy 105
16. 10. Catherine Cesarsky (PhD, 1971): Equations, Satellites, and Telescopes 116
17. 11. Judith ( Judy) Gamora Cohen (PhD, 1971): A Long and Winding Road 127
18. 12. Judith Lynn Pipher (PhD, 1971): Taking Advantage of Opportunity 139
19. 13. Gillian ( Jill) Knapp (PhD, 1972): Princeton 1984 150
20. 14. Patricia Ann Whitelock (PhD, 1976): The Southern Half of the Sky 161
21. 15. Anneila I. Sargent (PhD, 1977): A Long Way for a Wee Lassie 171
22. 16. Martha P. Haynes (PhD, 1978): Hands-on Adventures with Telescopes: From the Backyard to Cerro Chajnantor 181
23. 17. France Anne Córdova (PhD, 1979): The Learn’d Astronomer Discovers the Policy World 194
24. 18. Dina Prialnik (PhD, 1980): From Stars to Comets and Back 204
25. 19. Beatriz Barbuy (PhD, 1982): From Stargazing the Southern Cross to Probing the Depths of the History of the Milky Way 214
26. 20. Rosemary (Rosie) F. G. Wyse (PhD, 1983): A Journey through Space and Time 225
27. 21. Bożena Czerny (PhD, 1984): A Fortunate Sequence of Events 236
28. 22. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (PhD, 1984): Building a Worldwide Astrochemistry Community 244
29. 23. Wendy L. Freedman (PhD, 1984): My Astronomical Journey 256
30. 24. Meg Urry (PhD, 1984): The Gentlemen and Me 267
31. 25. Cathie Clarke (PhD, 1987): An Astronomer (Not a Pirate!) of Penzance 279
32. 26. Saeko S. Hayashi (PhD, 1987): From Six Meters to Thirty Meters, Ever Expanding Horizons 289
33. 27. Gražina Tautvaišienė (PhD, 1988): The Unfading Joy of Being an Astronomer 301
34. 28. Carole Mundell (PhD, 1995): Inspired by a Maths Dress 311
35. 29. Gabriela (Gaby) González (PhD, 1995): Gravitational Love 322
36. 30. Vicky Kalogera (PhD, 1997): Not Taking “No” for an Answer: Learning How to Persist and Persevere with a Smile 333
37. 31. Priyamvada Natarajan (PhD, 1999): Adventures Mapping the Dark Universe 344
38. 32. Dara J. Norman (PhD, 1999): On Becoming an Astronomer and Advancing Science 355
39. 33. Sara Seager (PhD, 1999): Adventures in the Search for Other Earths 366
40. 34. Hiranya Peiris (PhD, 2003): From Serendip to Serendipity 377
41. 35. Poonam Chandra (PhD, 2005): A Train to the Stars 388
42. 36. Xuefei Chen (PhD, 2005): Staring at the Stars 400
43. 37. Shazrene S. Mohamed (PhD, 2009): The Sky Is for Everyone 411
44. 38. Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew (PhD, 2010): Flipping Tables from the Sonoran Desert to the Stars 423
45. 39. Postlude 433
46. Further Reading and Additional Resources 435
47. Index of Subjects 451
48. Index of People 463