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Good morning! My week on People of Space is dedicated to the theme of women in space and STEM. We've looked at the @UNOOSA #Space4Women programme, and space books by women, with forays into the works of Margaret Cavendish (1600s) and Barbara Ward (1970s).
And what a week it's been! Women are pretty thin on the ground in NobelPrizeLand, but first of all was the good news that Andrea Ghez was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics for her work on black holes (with Reinhard Genzel) nobelprize.org/prizes/physics… #WomeninSTEM
Then the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was won by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing." nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist… #WomenInSTEM
Good morning everyone! I've just been in an amazing panel about satellites and #Space4Women - I'll post the link to the video here or over at my regular account when it's up. #WSW2020
Today is pretty flat out - later on I'll be chairing a session at the Australasian Space Health Symposium as well as presenting a paper. Is the paper finished? What an interesting question which I will decline to answer at this time. #WSW2020
You can find more details about the Australasian Space Health Symposium here. I'm pretty sure it's not too late to register (it's free) adastravita.com/space-health-s… #WSW2020
A quick round-up of more space books by women! The Secret Life of Stars by @lisaharveysmith lisaharveysmith.com #Space4Women #WSW2020
Look Up! Our Story with the Stars by @sarahcruddas harpercollins.com.au/9780008358280/… #Space4Women #WSW2020
Rise of the Space Age Millennials by @LauraForczyk astralytical.com/rise-of-the-sp… #Space4Women #WSW2020
Time for my third book in this series on space books by women: Spaceship Earth (1966), by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth - a pioneer in the philosophy of sustainability and social justice #Space4Women #WSW2020
The concept of 'Spaceship Earth' is usually associated with Buckminster Fuller and his 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth' (1969) - but Barbara Ward published her book 'Spaceship Earth' in 1966. #Space4Women #WSW2020
The origins of 'Spaceship Earth', however, actually pre-date the Space Age! In 1879, the US economist Henry George wrote: 'It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space'. More history here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship… #WSW2020
