Podcaster: Mel Blake & Lauren Wigginton
Title: Women in Astronomy: 2000 Years of Exploring the Universe
Organization: UNA Planetarium
Links: : http://www.una.edu/planetarium
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Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, the podcast looks back through history at the contributions of women to the field of astronomy. We begin in ancient Egypt, and describe the contributions of Hypatia and her tragic end. We then move forward describing the efforts of women like Caroline Hershel discovering comets, Annie Cannon classifying stars and describe the PhD thesis of Celia Payne, which was voted the most significant of the20th Century by the American Astronomical Society. While we note the struggles that women faced in trying to participate in astronomy, We end on a positive note, indicating the increasing role of women to astronomy and its value to increasing the talent pool for the science.
Bio: Dr. Mel Blake grew up in Newfoundland, Canada and arrived tat the University of North Alabama, in Florence, Alabama in 2008. He directs the UNA Planetarium and Observatory and researches binary and variable stars, as well a teaching in the department of Physics and Earth science.
Lauren Wigginton grew up in Alabama and is an undergraduate student majoring in chemistry with a physics minor. She began working as a work-study student at the UNA planetarium in February of 2018, and has as her career goal to do research in astrocemistry. She recently bought her first telescope!
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