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Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer
出版Cape Catley, 2006
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralScience / Space Science / Astronomy
ISBN18773400149781877340017
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=L2PcAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋After her New Zealand uipbringing [she was born in England], Beatrice did her pioneering work in the US, into the origin of galaxies, the origins of the universe. She was a professor of astronomy at Yale, and only 40 when she died of cancer [melanoma] in 1981. [She] showed astronomers new ways of looking, and taught teachers new ways of teaching. These ways endure. A lover of nature and a conservationist who idealised New Zealand, she was also a musician, a feminist. a battler for zero population growth [despite having two children], and a champion of the oppressed. Like working mothers everywhere, she had to juggle childcare and the demands of her profession. Her life is a classic study in the interaction of nature and nurture, genetics and environment. It is also an inspiring ... picture of a girl, determined to be a scientist, who grows up in provinicial New Zealand [Taranaki] and wins through to world renown. ..."--Back cover.