INTERESTING FACTS

 

 

·      Before 1859 there were no working female astronomers.

 

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was the Astronomer-sister of Sir William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus. 

 

Annie Russell Maunder’s contributions were presented as those of her husband Edward W. Maunder, discoverer of the Maunder minimum in sunspot activity.

 

·      Between 1859 and 1940 one-of-three astronomers was a woman.  (Yet – no women’s names appear in textbooks of astronomy for this period.)

 

 

What happened?