Winner
GOLD
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Winner
SILVER
Moonbeam Book of the Year Award
WINNER Reader Views Book Award
Selected
for the
Amelia Bloomer List
The judge said: "[O]ne of the
best books I've seen this year."
To be published in
Russia by Dodeka in 2010.
Women
Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars by Mabel Armstrong is the first in a
planned series of "Discovering Women in Science" books for Young Adults.
Women Astronomers covers some of the fascinating women who dared to look toward the stars
from the first known woman astronomer Hypatia of Alexandria to
Astronaut Sally Ride and all the fascinating, brave women in
between.
The astronomers featured are: EnHuduanna, Hypatia of Alexandria,
Sondok, Hildegard of Bingen, Caroline Herschel, Maria Mitchell,
Williamina Steven Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan
Leavitt, Antonia Maury, Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin, Helen Sawyer Hogg,
Margaret Burbidge, Nancy Roman, Vera Rubin, Beatrice Tinsley, Joyce
Bell Burnell, Margaret Geller, Carolyn Shoemaker, Sally Ride, Jill
Tartar, Wendy Freedman and the rising "stars" of today.
Women Astronomers is intended for a High School
audience.