Her Space, Her Time

“This carefully researched collection of important scientific contributions by women will inspire a new generation of young women to consider a career in science.”

Arthur B. McDonald, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics; Professor Emeritus, Queen's University

“An engaging and thoroughly researched work that reveals the many vital contributions woman scientists made to the space age. Even serious students of this history are sure to be surprised by the missing pieces Ghose reveals.”

Kathryn D. Sullivan, Scientist, Astronaut, Explorer; author of Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention; co-author of To the Stars! with Carmella VanVleet and How to Spacewalk with Michael J. Rosen

“Her Space, Her Time is a captivating book that honors and highlights a wonderful selection of women who broke boundaries and challenged conventions in science and society.”

Donna Strickland, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo; co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics

“This book is a vital, intimate chronicle of the indomitable women science pioneers who fought to better understand the universe. Shohini Ghose, an accomplished physicist herself, not only brings these women's stories into the light, she brings them to life.”

Chris Hadfield, astronaut and bestselling author

"Shohini Ghose's book Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe certainly fulfills its subtitle. The seven chapters are highly informative, each one having dramatic moments and discoveries. Ghose skillfully weaves together accessible descriptions of astrophysical concepts with the personal lives of the women scientists. I recommend this book as required reading for anyone teaching astronomy and astrophysics, as well as those with an amateur interest... By writing this book, Ghose is doing the work of rectifying some of these past wrongs."

American Scientist

"A disdain for misogyny past and present shines through in Shohini Ghose's rich history of women's underappreciated contributions to astronomy and physics... Her Space, Her Time [has] made an important contribution to this chain of histories, one that will no doubt lead to a clearer view of the science that lit up our universe."

New Scientist

“This book is truly for everyone, and I can't overstate how much I enjoyed it.”

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

“[An] engaging new book... Ghose explains complex concepts with clarity, understandable for the non-scientist, and the book is a passionate look at the women who've pushed our understanding forward in space exploration, radioactivity, the splitting of the atom, and subatomic imaging, revealing the crucial role women have played, bringing their achievements to light, and in doing, making a strong case for women's place in science now.”

Boston Globe

“Her Space, Her Time will likely draw comparisons to other biographies of women scientists and mathematicians like Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel. But Ghose's book, with its unique structure and writing style, earns its own space (pun intended) in the genre... Her Space, Her Time provides a digestible, informative starting point for making these scientists visible.”

Symmetry

“A fascinating book about relatively neglected pioneering women physicists and astronomers who have made transformative contributions despite the overbearing influence of masculine science and institutions.”

Paradigm Explorer