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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
She Followed the Sun: Ruby Payne-Scott, the World’s First Woman Radio Astronomer
In March of 1944, a physicist and radar specialist named Ruby Payne-Scott aimed her equipment at the sky and became the world’s first...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
‘You are young, and wrong. You must retract.’ When fresh-faced zeal confronts experience, it usually loses. Scientists who think they’ve...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman and the Birth of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It is an image to inspire almost primordial awe, taken when a space telescope with a rocky past pointed itself towards a black expanse of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Margaret Burbridge and the Dawn of Nucleosynthesis Theory
If you had asked a random astronomer in the 1930s how all of the elements in the universe were produced, they would have had a ready and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
First: The Astrophysics and Astronautics of Sally Ride
Heroes are supposed to be monodimensional, startling and exceptional in one narrow aspect of life and a complex, barely functioning mess...
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