The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and personal triumphs.
“The Sky is for Everyone,” a new book published by Princeton University Press, tells a bit of that history. In the book, more than three dozen leading women astronomers tell their personal stories of scientific success over the past 50-plus years. Among them are two revered Yale astrophysicists, C. Megan Urry and Priyamvada Natarajan. Urry is the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics. Natarajan is a professor of astronomy and physics, director of Yale’s Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, and incoming chair of the Department of Astronomy in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Natarajan and Urry spoke with Yale News about their involvement in “The Sky is for Everyone.”
This story was excerpted from the Yale News story of August 10, 2022 by Jim Shelton. Click below for the full story and to information about the book.