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Sat 01 Jan 2009Astronomer and writer on role of women in science
Mary (Maire) Bruck:DR MARY (Máire) Brück, who has died aged 83, was an astronomer who wrote extensively on the role of women in science.
One of her best-known books is Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics. Published in 2002 it is a study of the 19th-century astronomer who was born in Skibbereen. Her most recent book, Stars and Satellites: women in early astronomy in Britain and Ireland, is forthcoming.
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