Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide

Cannon, Annie (1863-1941)

Bok, Priscilla "Annie Jump Cannon 1863-1941" in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, June 1941, vol. 53, p. 168.

Emberlin, D. Science: Contributions of Women. 1977, Dillon Press. Includes a section on Cannon, pp. 7-27.

Greenstein, George "The Ladies of Observatory Hill" in American Scholar, Feb. 1993, p. 437. (Reprinted in his book Portraits of Discovery, 1998, John Wiley.)

Jones, Bessie & Boyd, Lyle The Harvard College Observatory (1839-1919). 1971, Harvard U. Press. See especially Chapter 11.

Kidwell, P. "Three Women of American Astronomy" in American Scientist, May/June 1990, p. 244.

Merrill, P. "Annie Jump Cannon" in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 102, no. 2, p. 74 (1942).

Platt, F. "Chasing After Rainbows: Annie Jump Cannon" in Griffith Observer, July 1983, p. 2 (vol. 47, no. 7).

Welther, Barbara "Annie J. Cannon: Classifier of the Stars" in Mercury, Jan/Feb. 1984, p. 28.

Web Sites:

Her Pages at Wellesley: http://www.astro.wellesley.edu/annie/

Brief Biography: http://www.physics.gmu.edu/classinfo/astr103/CourseNotes/ECText/Bios/cannon.htm

Brief Bio at ScienceWomen Site: http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/cannon.html

ASP Women Slide Set Page: http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/cannon.html

A Video about Her: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~alexg/ajc.html

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Clerke, Agnes (1842-1907)

Bruck, M. "Agnes Mary Clerke: Chronicler of Astronomy" in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Mar. 1994, p. 59. Lengthy profile.

Lightman, B. "Constructing Victorian Heavens: Agnes Clerke and the "New Astronomy" in Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. Barbara T. Gates, Barbara & Shteir, Ann, eds. 1997, U. of Wisconsin Press.

Weitzenhoffer, Kenneth "The Prolific Pen of Agnes Clerke" in Sky & Telescope, Sep. 1985, p. 211.

Web Site:

Brief Biography from the Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04051b.htm

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Faber, Sandra

Dressler, Alan Voyage to the Great Attractor. 1994, Knopf. Story of how we learned to explore the large-scale structure of the realm of the galaxies, focusing on the lives and work of the astronomers who call themselves the "Seven Samurai" (of which Faber is one).

Lemonick, Michael The Light at the Edge of the Universe. 1993, Villard/Random House. See especially Chapter 6.

Lightman, Alan & Brawer, Roberta "Interview with Sandra Faber" in Origins. 1990, Harvard U. Press.

Web Sites:

Bio Page at the Contribution of Women to Physics Site at UCLA: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Faber,_Sandra_Moore@931234567.html

1995 Autobiographical Sketch: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/faber.htm

Web Page at Lick Observatory: http://www.ucolick.org/~board/faculty/faber.html

ASP Women Slide Set Page: http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/faber.html

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Fischer, Debra

Fischer, Debra "Prowling for Planets" in Mercury, Jul/Aug. 2000, p. 13.

Her web site at U. of California, Berkeley: http://astron.berkeley.edu/~fischer/

Her article about finding planets in Mercury magazine: http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/0004/fischer.html

Berkeleyan news piece: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/10/18/planetdi.html

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Fleming, Williamina (1857-1911)

Cannon, Annie "Williamina Fleming" in Astrophysical Journal, vol. 34, p. 314 (July 1911).

Jones, Bessie & Boyd, Lyle The Harvard College Observatory (1839-1919). 1971, Harvard U. Press. See several sections of this history for her contributions.

Rolston, W. "Mrs. W. P. Fleming" in Nature, vol. 86, p. 453 (June 1, 1911).

Spradley, J. "The Industrious Mrs. Fleming" in Astronomy, July 1990, p. 48.

Spradley, J. "Two Centennials of Star Catalogs Compiled by Women" in Astronomy Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 177 (1990).

Web Sites:

Brief Biography: http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/flemingw.html

Brief Article at Harvard Observatory: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/newtop/previous/011700.html

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Freedman, Wendy

Ferguson, Kitty Measuring the Universe. 1999, Walker. Chronicle of how distances were found in the universe, with good discussions of contributions by individual astronomers.

Stephens, Sally "Hubble Warrior" in Astronomy, March 2000, p. 52. Profile of her work trying to find the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters.

Web Sites:

Biography at a TV Program Site: http://www.closertotruth.com/participants/wfreedman/

Her Scientific American article on her work: http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/0398freedman.html

Remarks at the American Academy of Arts & Letters: http://www.amacad.org/blvlivn2/blvlivn2_28d.htm

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Furness, Caroline

"Caroline Ellen Furness" in Monthly Notices of the RAS, vol. 97, p. 272 (Feb. 1937).

Makemson, M. "Caroline E. Furness" in Publications of the A.S.P., vol. 48, p. 97 (Apr. 1936).

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