Description
Only a few women have their names on the moon. Who are they? and where are these names?
Near side of the Moon (14 names):
- Catherine of Alexandria – Greek theologian, philosopher
- Hypatia of Alexandria – Greek mathematician and philosopher
- Nicole-Reine Etable de la Briere Lepaute – French astronomer
- Caroline Herschel – British astronomer
- Mary Fairfax Somerville – Scottish physicist, mathematician
- Anne Sheepshanks – British benefactor
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce – American philanthropist, astronomy patron
- Maria Mitchell – American astronomer
- Agnes Mary Clerke – British astronomer
- Mary Adela Blagg – British astronomer
- Mary Proctor – American astronomer
- Annie Jump Cannon – American astronomer
- Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury – American astronomer
- Louise Freeland Jenkins – American astronomer
Far side of the Moon (17 names):
- Sofia V. Kovalevskaya – Russian mathematician
- Williamina Paton – Scottish-born American astronomer
- Marie Skłodowska – Polish physicist, chemist, Nobel laureate
- Annie de Scott Dill Russell – British astronomer
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt – American astronomer
- Lise Meitner – Austrian physicist
- Emmy Noether – German mathematician
- Priscilla Fairfield Bok – American astronomer
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori – Czech-American physiologist; Nobel laureate
- Dorothy Vaughan – American mathematician
- Marie Tharp – Geologist and oceanographer
- Valentina Tereshkova – Soviet cosmonaut
- Sharon Christa Corrigan – School teacher member of the Challenger crew
- Judith Arlene Resnik – Member of the Challenger crew
- Kalpana Chawla – American astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Specialist
- Laurel Clark – American astronaut, Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Specialist
- Elisabetta Pierazzo – Italian planetary scientist
2 posters. Not sold separately.
A2 size posters (420 x 594mm – 16.5 x 23.4 inch). Unframed.
* Each purchase will be printed on demand.
We will try to add new prints monthly.
