Ashley Jean Yeager

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin

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Produktbeschreibung

"The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and then was passed over for the Nobel prize"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 122mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547239
• ISBN-10: 0262547236
• Artikelnr.: 67404904

Autorenporträt

Ashley Jean Yeager

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1 Stellar Tales
2 Dark Matter's Debut
3 Waiting on the Stars
4 Threads of Research: A Rotating Universe and Radio Astronomy
5 Chasing Stars
6 A Clumpy Cosmos
7 Career Challenges and Galactic Questions
8 A Taste of Astronomy 
9 At Last, a Real Astronomer
10 Andromeda's Young, Hot Stars
11 The Matter we Cannot See
12 More Matter Than Meets the Eye
13 Diving into Dark Matter
14 Gender Equality in Astronomy: A Darker Universe?
15 The Final Nights
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index