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Hill, Edward My Daughter Beatrice - A Personal Memoir of Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer. (The American Physical Society, New York, 1986) ISBN 0-88318-493-1.

Kennicutt, Robert C. Jr. "Evolution of the Stars and Gas in Galaxies" Astrophysical Journal Centennial Issue 525 1165.

Larson, Richard B. and Stryker, Linda L. "Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley," Quarterly of the Royal Astronomical Society 23 (March 1982).

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Other References Made to Beatrice Tinsley

Rubin, Vera. Bright Galaxies Dark Matters. (Springer-Verlag New York 1996) ISBN 1-56396-231-4. (p. 122, p124)

Wertheim, Margaret. Pythagoras' Trousers: God Physics, and the Gender Wars. (Fourth Estate Ltd., London, UK. 1997) ISBN 1-85702-697-7 (p. 243)

(The following books were not consulted but make reference to Beatrice)

American Philosophical Society, "Guide to the Manuscript Collections Hi through Hy" History of Modern Astrophysics Archives. Photocopied transcripts, microfilm, microfiche.

Transcript of Interview with Beatrice Tinsley. Presented by the American Institute of Physics, 1981 (Ms.Coll.#13) <http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/browser/hi.htm> [Date accessed 29 March 2000] Note: The manuscript is owned by the Niels Bohr Library in New York. http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm#ohi

Catley, C.C. (1991) "Beatrice Tinsley" in Macdonald, C. Penfold, M & Williams, B. eds. The Book of Women in New Zealand: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books.

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Overbye, Dennis "Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos : The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe". (Little Brown & Co, November 1999). ISBN: 0316648965

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"Beatrice Hill Tinsely". <http://watt.physics.carleton.edu/Astro/pages/michele/tinsley.html> Author: Michele Nichols on June 10, 1998. [Date Accessed 29 March 2000.]

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"Beatrice Tinsley - Queen Of The Cosmos". <
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<http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bib/bib_home.htm> [Date Accessed 17 March

2000].

"Carter Observatory - Profiles in Astronomy - Dr. Beatrice Tinsley - Professor of Astronomy-Yale University." Authors Debbie Middleton and Tony Fisher. Last updated 9-Feb.-99

<http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~carter/tinsley.html> [Date Accessed 3 April 2000.]

EBSCO Host <http://www.global.epnet.com/ehost/CPID/swinburne/login.html> for copies of Astronomy and Sky & Telescope articles.

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"The History Of Women And Science, Health, And Technology: A Bibliographic Guide To The Professions And The Disciplines. Astronomy (503-582)". <
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/hws/hws0601.htm> Content of Bibliography last updated in 1993. Format converted September 10, 1999. . [Date Accessed 17 March 2000 ].

"Tinsley, Beatrice Muriel Hill." The Handbook of Texas Online. <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/TT/fti12.html>

[Date Accessed 29 March 2000].

Images Sources

Beatrice photos front page, Msc. Graduation, Yale professor

Hill, Edward My Daughter Beatrice - A Personal Memoir of Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer. (The American Physical Society, New York, 1986) ISBN 0-88318-493-1.

Beatrice with her mother and sisters.

Catley, Christine Cole. "Beatrice (Hill) Tinsley", "Springboard for Women" (New Plymouth Girls High School Centennial Publication) (Cape Catley Ltd. Picton New Zealand. 1985). P.155

Ph.D. Graduation

"Beatrice Tinsley - Queen Of The Cosmos". < http://nzedge.com/heroes/tinsley.html> Copyright NZEdge.com IP Holdings Limited 1999. [Date Accessed 20 March 2000 ].

"Prof. Brian. A. Tinsley" NS&M, Physics/Space Science Date http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/physics/Faculty/tinsley/tinsley.htm [Accessed 17 Apr 2000]

Beatrice taken about 1972.

"Beatrice Tinsley ". <http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/tinsley.html> (C) 1992 Astronomical Society of the Pacific Author: Dr G Marcy, San Francisco State University [Date Accessed 20 March 2000.] Also in Dressler article Sky & Telescope.

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Holloway, Marguerite. "A Lab of Her Own" Scientific American Nov 1993 Vol 269 No. 5 p. 68

Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich. "Women Astronomers in Britain, 1780-1930" Isis 1984 75 p. 534-546

Rossiter, Margaret W. "Women Scientists in America" (John Hopkins University Press, Maryland, 1982) ISBN 0-8018-2443-5

Rubin, Vera. "Women's Work: Women in Modern Astronomy" Science Jul/Aug 1986 p. 58-65

Warner, Deborah Jean. "Women Astronomers". Woman in Science. 1913, D. Appleton. (pp. 167-196).


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