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