-
Yaël Nazé
Yaël Nazé is an astrophysicist specializing in massive stars. She has written several works of scientific vulgarization such as Voyager dans l’espace (CNRS Éditions, 2013).
Who discovered an exceptional number of comets and asteroids? A woman. Who helped organize the stellar population? A woman. And the law allowing to survey the Universe? Again and again… a woman! However, when it comes to mentioning a « historical astronomer », we most often think of men: Galileo, Copernicus, or closer to us, Hubble. Certainly, over the centuries, women have not had much opportunity to enter the sciences in general and astronomy in particular. Is this a reason to believe in the total absence of their contributions?
Yaël Nazé retraces the career of a few important scientists who have one thing in common: their gender. The book follows the pattern of the great discoveries, each field giving rise to a description of the astronomical phenomena concerned and to a story in which we find the great female figures of astronomy.
