Dr. Yvonne Pendleton has spent her career helping us to understand our place in the universe.
Image: NASA.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Wang Zhenyi was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet born in 1768 and despite the social philosophy of the time she was an avid reader and thinker.
Image: Jake Hills/Unsplash.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Maria Kirch is considered the first woman to discover a comet, but for many years her husband took the credit.
Image: Jacob Dyer/Unsplash.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
After her father’s untimely death, Anna Winlock followed in his footsteps at the Harvard Observatory and completed his unfinished work.
Image: Wikimedia.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Susan Jane Cunningham was integral to the building of the mathematics and astronomy departments at the newly founded Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1869.
Image: Wikimedia.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Susan Jane Cunningham Read More »
Today, meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the woman who changed our view of the universe and the first recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.
Image: Wikimedia.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Read More »
Astronomer Heidi Hammel began to love astronomy in college, and now has done extensive studies of Neptune and Uranus.
Image: Bill Ingalls / NASA (CC BY 2.0 DEED)
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
An astrophysicist and science communicator, Summer Ash loves to share her love of the universe.
Image Via LinkedIn.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Astronomer Amy Mainzer searches for near earth objects with her work at NASA, and helps kids learn to love science with her work on Ready, Jet, Go.
Image Courtesy of University of Arizona.
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
Today is our 100th episode, and we’re featuring the woman who has discovered a record number of comets, Carolyn Shoemaker.
Image: Wikimedia
Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
