Virginia Louise Trimble
Virginia Louise Trimble is an astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy.
Life
While attending UCLA in 1962, Trimble was the subject of a Life article titled "Behind a Lovely Face, a 180 I.Q.".[1] She received her B.A. from UCLA in 1964 and her Ph.D from the California Institute of Technology in 1968. Trimble joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1971, where she is now Professor of astronomy. From the time that she married Maryland Professor Joseph Weber, a pioneer in gravitational wave physics, 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 that was published 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.[2]
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