Virginia Louise Trimble

Virginia Louise Trimble is an astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy.

Trimble received her B.A. from UCLA in 1964 and her Ph.D from the California Institute of Technology in 1968. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1971, where she is presently Professor of astronomy. From the time that she married Maryland Professor Joe Weber until 2002, she spent half of each academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is famous for an annual review of astrophysics she publishes in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. During at least 2000, she was vice president of the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society. citation
title = Looking backward: Themes of 20th-century astronomy
last1 = Trimble
first1 = Virginia Louise
author1-link = Virginia Trimble
journal = Sky and Telescope
year = 2000
date = January 1 2000
volume = 99
issue = 1
issn = 00376604
page = 50]

Trimble was married to physicist Joseph Weber, a pioneer of gravitational wave research.

A selection of her publications includes:

*"Astrophysics in 2003", The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 116, Issue 817, pp. 187-265 (2004).
*"Cosmic Discoveries", Sky and Telescope, February 1999, 32-40.
*"Can't You Keep Einstein's Equations out of my Observatory?", BeamLine 29, No. 1, p 21-25 (1999).
*"Limits on the Chirality of Interstellar and Intergalactic Space", Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 17, 17-21 (1996).
*"Productivity and Impact of Large Optical Telescopes", Scientometrics 36, 237-246 (1996).
*"Parallaxes and Proper Motions of Prototypes of Astrophysically Interesting Classes of Stars", Astronomical Journal 115, 358-360 (1998).
* citation
last1 = Trimble
first1 = Virginia Louise
author1-link = Virginia Trimble
title = The Distance to the Crab Nebula and NP 0532
year = 1973
date = October 1973
journal = Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
volume = 85
issue = 507
page = 579
url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973PASP...85..579T
* citation
last1 = Trimble
first1 = Virginia Louise
author1-link = Virginia Trimble
title = Motions and Structure of the Filamentary Envelope of the Crab Nebula
year = 1968
date = September 1968
journal = Astronomical Journal
volume = 73
issue =
page = 535
url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968AJ.....73..535T

References

External links

* [http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/trimble.html Trimble's Web Page at UCI]