Five Remarkable Women
at the
Crossroads of Astronomy

Click here to see a PowerPoint presentation of an invited talk
I gave on July 31, 2002 at ALCON 2002,
a national meeting of the Astronomical League held in Salt Lake City.

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Click here to read a rough transcript of the talk in pdf format.

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For more information, here are some of the sources I used to prepare the talk:

Caroline Herschel:

• http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/herschel.htm
• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Herschel_Caroline.html
• http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/similar/cher.html
• "Reading the Mind of God," by James Trefil.

Annie Jump Cannon:

• http://academics.wellesley.edu/Astronomy/Annie/
• http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/CANNON.html
• http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/sboinfo/readingroom/hd.html
• "The Analysis of Starlight," by J. B. Hearnshaw.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt:

• http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap981027.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/baleav.html
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/leavitt.html

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin:

• http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/GAPOSCHKIN.html
• http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/cpg.htm
• http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/payne2.html

Vera Rubin:

• http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/rubindm/rubindm.html
• http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/vr.htm
• "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters," by Vera Rubin.

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