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... ). Thomas Kuhn, renowned for the structure of scientific revolutions, pointed out that the astronomical revolution was not due to the accuracy of competing theory but to the aesthetic preference about the universe ( Kuhn, 2012 ). In the fifteenth century, geocentric theory was predominant to explain...

..., or including men as a comparison, and, in particular, showing that women astronomers interviewed defined success in terms of work-life balance and long-term life goals ( Barthelemy et al., 2015 , 2016 ). I have noted that physics education research has too often been pursued without a clear awareness...

... their sexuality, then having those colleagues designate those issues as unimportant or not real. Some respondents also reported sexual assault and stalking behavior from colleagues. The Institute of Physics, Royal Astronomical Society, and Royal Society of Chemistry also created a report inspired by the LGBT...

... College MCT R48 Lunar Phase Concept Inventory (LPCI) Phases of the moon Introductory College MCT R49 Astronomical Misconceptions Survey (AMS) Astronomy content knowledge Introductory College MCT R50 a Reference list is provided at the end. Most conceptual tests are multiple-choice...

... approach without imposing a separation. With this in mind, we can list several physics-related topics, all of which are explored in greater depth later in primary school: simple astronomical and weather observations (and measurements), motion and forces, phases of matter and phase transitions (with water...

... behavior. For example, the students believed that a transparent body may become hotter in the sun because the radiation from the sun passes through it. Lee and Schneider (2015) researched students' conceptions of astronomical pictures. They reported that students see significant differences between...

... reasons for this in the U.S. is the New Faculty Workshop (NFW) (see NFW ). Since 1996, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have sponsored workshops (with National Science Foundation support) to help faculty...

... for students in primary and secondary schools (ages 5–17) ( Cole and Consortium, 2006 ). Other examples include science-focused summer camps, weekly science clubs, and community amateur clubs (e.g., amateur astronomers). Some of these activities span the boundary between formal and informal spaces...

.... Grounding these analyses are immeasurable contributions to science by women, people of color and indigenous peoples that remain unacknowledged in History of Science, NOS, and PER. Astronomical, navigational, geographic and botanical knowledge and expertise in regions outside Europe both long predate Western...

... Caroline Lucretia Herschel ¹ was in her late 20s before anyone could have guessed that she was going to be an important astronomer. At the age of ten, she contracted typhus, survived, but had her growth arrested. As an adult she only measured 1.30 m. ² She was born...

... States. Her mentor was Harlow Shapely, a well-known astronomer who actively encouraged and helped women's careers. He urged her to do a Ph.D. in astronomy, which she did. In her Ph.D., she analyzed spectra of stars. A few years earlier, the Indian mathematician Meghnad H. Saha had developed an equation...

...Tycho Brahe, ¹ or in Danish, Tyge Brahe (1546–1601), was one of the best observational astronomers of all time. This is especially remarkable because his observations preceded the invention of the telescope. The accuracy of astronomical measurements with telescopes had to wait a century...

... life advocating for women in science. She was particularly known for her mentorship of aspiring female astronomers. During her work for her master's degree, Rubin became interested in the relative motion of galaxies, a subject no one else had looked at. She made two interesting observations. The first...

..., and Gold proposed their versions of SS, Einstein wrote in a letter that he regarded that the creation of atoms “is in my view much too poorly grounded to be taken seriously.” There were numerous astronomical observations which we shall not go into, but which tilted towards BB. Here are two: Up through...

..., she was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award of the American Astronomical Society, a prize given only to women. However, she turned it down as a protest against special prizes for women: “It is high time that discrimination in favor of, as well as against, women in professional life be removed,” she said...

... or when new matter falls into the it. ⁴ If not enough matter is falling into the BH, it will gradually loss its mass. ⁵ Finally, when the BH mass is below approximately 10 12 kg , it will explode. Since 1976, astronomers have searched for exploding BHs...

...: Scientific Heavyweight The fight started in the summer of 1611 in the home of one Filippo Salviati, an Italian scientist and astronomer. A discussion evolved around the condensation and rarefaction of matter. Ice was mentioned as an example of condensation. The Aristotelians claimed...