A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU (an organization of over 10,000 members)...
The women who opened the doors to astronomy In France, Dorothea Klumpke earned her Docteur-猫s-Sciences at the University of Paris in mathematical astronomy in 1893, after completing her thesis, 鈥淟鈥檈tude des Anneaux de Saturne鈥 (A study of the rings of Saturn), thereby becoming the first woman ...Read More