Article ID: CBB001221646

Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar Mother (2012)

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We present a biographical sketch of Alenush Terian, the first Iranian woman physicist, who was known as the Iranian Solar Mother, since she founded the first solar telescopic observatory in Iran. She taught and carried out astronomical research for three decades with inadequate resources but with unflinching devotion, motivated by a strong desire to propagate scientific education and research in her country.

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Authors & Contributors
Ainley, Marianne (Marika) Gosztonyi
Anduaga Egaña, Aitor
Ansari, Anousheh
Christensen, Terry M.
Cunningham, Andrew
Dufner, Barbara
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Feministische Studien
Iranian Studies
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Publishers
Ashgate
Brill
Franz Steiner Verlag
Johns Hopkins University
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Universities and colleges
Biographies
Women in science
Astronomy
Physics
People
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Ainley, Marianne (Marika) Gosztonyi
Ansari, Anousheh
Bassi, Laura Maria Caterina
Bernhard Schmidt
Bouchet, Edward Alexander
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
16th century
20th century
Places
Iran
United States
France
England
Ottoman Empire
Canada
Institutions
Hubble Space Telescope
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Society of Black Physicists (United States)
University of Missouri
Uniwersytet Warszawski
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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