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Caroline Herschel: A Google Doodle for pioneer astronomer

To pardon the pun, Caroline Herschel is someone many women astronomers ‘look up to’ as she was the first woman to discover a comet, and now she has been honoured with a Google Doodle to mark what ...
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Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs. Internet Archive Book Images via Wikimedia Commons Caroline Herschel, the first English ...
Astronomy

Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not recognize her name.
Space.com

Caroline Herschel was England's first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
The Conversation

Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female ...
BBC

Caroline Herschel; the first woman to earn her living through science.

Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets and was the first woman to earn her living from science. Born in 1750, she struggled to be allowed to work – her own preoccupations were always second to the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The lost sonatas of William Herschel, scientist who discovered Uranus

German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel is best remembered for discovering Uranus in 1781 as well as other celestial bodies, then infrared radiation in 1800. Many of these discoveries were ...
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'Beautifully written, touching on science, politics and social change.' Review: The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, by John Pipkin

AMERICAN author John Pipkin’s second novel is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and chiefly concerns the fate of two women called Caroline. Caroline Herschel is based on a real person, ...
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Caroline Herschel was England's first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not ...