Making Space: Pioneering Women in Aerospace with The Linda Hall Library
Making Space: Pioneering Women in Aerospace
August 25, 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm CST (that’s 1am on the 26th in London!)
The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification. To acknowledge this important anniversary, physicist Emily Martin from The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and A. N. Devers, writer and owner of The Second Shelf, a bookshop specialising in books by and about women, will explore the history of women in aviation and also discuss their own groundbreaking careers.
Speaker Bios
Dr. Emily Martin is a research physical scientist in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies. Emily’s research interests are in planetary surface processes and tectonic deformation across our solar system, especially the icy bodies of the outer solar system. Developing a better understanding of how planetary surfaces deformed tells us about their histories and what they have experienced. Of particular interest is the evolution of subsurface oceans on Saturn’s moon Enceladus and other icy satellites. Many of these moons had or have liquid water oceans under their brittle water-ice lithospheres making them prime targets for understanding the habitable potential of the outer solar system. Much of Emily’s work relies on images taken by the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecrafts. Emily received her B.A. in physics from Wheaton College (MA) in 2006, where she first began exploring the icy satellites. She subsequently obtained her M.S. form Northwestern University in Earth and planetary science in 2009, and her PhD in geological sciences from the University of Idaho in 2014.
A. N. Devers is a writer, arts journalist, and critic, and rare book dealer based in London. She owns The Second Shelf, a bookshop specializing in books by and about women, she has worked with Linda Hall frequently. Her first book, Train, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
Accessing the program
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This program is funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Its content is solely the responsibility of the Linda Hall Library.
Further recommended reading from Linda Hall Library
Holt, Nathalia Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Kevles, Bettyann. Almost heaven : the story of women in space. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006.
Shetterly, Margot Lee Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2016.
Sobel, Dava The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars. New York, New York : Viking, 2016.