Minorities in Astronomy

I am an Arab astronomer and mathematician, born in 858 CE, who was the first to determine a solar year was 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds long.
I was only off by 2 minutes and 22 seconds!

• Radha Gobinda Chandra
• Al-Battani
• Meghnad Saha
• Mae Jemison

I am an Indian astrophysicist, born in 1893, who is known for developing an ionization equation that describes the chemical and physical conditions inside stars.
I was repeatedly and unsuccessfully nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics!

• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Al-Battani
• Meghnad Saha
• Radha Gobinda Chandra

I am an American engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut born in 1956, who was the first African-American woman to travel in space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
I am a dancer and hold nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities!

• Sally Ride
• Ellen Ochoa
• Meghnad Saha
• Mae Jemison

I am an American engineer and NASA astronaut, born in 1958, who was the first Hispanic woman to go to space aboard the Shuttle Discovery in 1993.
I am the current Director of the Johnson Space Center!

• Ellen Ochoa
• Sally Ride
• Meghnad Saha
• Mae Jemison

I am an American physicist and NASA astronaut, born in 1951, who was the first American woman, and third woman overall, to go to space aboard the Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
I served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both!

• Ellen Ochoa
• Sally Ride
• Judith Resnik
• Mae Jemison

I am an American engineer and NASA astronaut, born in 1949, who was the second female astronaut, and the first Jewish American to go to space.
I died at age 36 aboard the space shuttle Challenger when it was destroyed during its launch on January 28th, 1986!

• Sally Ride
• Dorothy Vaughan
• Judith Resnik
• Radha Gobinda Chandra

I am a Jewish-American theoretical physicist, born in 1918, who developed widely used pictorial representation schemes for the mathematical expressions governing subatomic particles. 
I assisted with the development of the first atomic bomb and was on the Rogers Commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster!

• Albert Einstein
• Richard Feynman
• Judith Resnik
• Arno Allen Penzias

I am a German born, Jewish-American theoretical physicist, born in 1879, who developed the theory of relativity, and is best known for my equation E = mc². 
I once said, "Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."

• Albert Einstein
• Richard Feynman
• Radha Gobinda Chandra
• Arno Allen Penzias

I am a Jewish-American physicist, and radio astronomer, born in 1933, who accidentally co-discovered Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation when  working on a radio telescope at Bell Laboratories in 1964. 
I received the Nobel Prize for this discovery despite the fact that other scientists of the time had predicted the existence of CMB Radiation, and were building low-frequency telescopes to find it!

• Radha Gobinda Chandra
• Richard Feynman
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Arno Allen Penzias

I am a female, American astronomer, born in 1868, who discovered the relation between the luminosity and period of Cepheid variable stars in 1908. 
I received little recognition in my time, but my discovery allowed astronomers to measure the distance between Earth and distant galaxies!

• Radha Gobinda Chandra
• Sally Ride
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Caroline Herschel