Virginia Trimble

Famous and Noteworthy Astronomers

Virginia Trimble, Memory Keeper of Modern Astronomy

Virginia Trimble collected "shiny things" in astronomy — and her curated collections fascinated astronomers around the world.

Famous and Noteworthy Astronomers

Music and Science Unite in the Work of Cosmologist Stephon Alexander

A fight against conventionality has driven cosmologist Stephon Alexander on a groundbreaking journey through theoretical physics.

Portrait of Donna Elbert

Famous and Noteworthy Astronomers

Donna Elbert and the Table on Page 208

Working 30 years for the legendary astrophysicist, the self-taught mathematician calculated a key value necessary for a planet to sustain a global magnetic field, and thus life — a breakthrough overlooked for half a century.

sepia-toned photograph of Helen Sawyer Hogg standing in front of a telescope

Famous and Noteworthy Astronomers

Helen Sawyer Hogg: Giving the Stars to Everyone

Helen Sawyer Hogg stood at the front of a small but growing force of woman astronomers in the first half of the 20th century. This is her story.

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