GRAND RAPIDS, MI – When Samantha McClelland first walked into a meeting of the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association, she was the youngest in the room and one of only three women.
In an essay she wrote, McClelland described being unsurprised by the realization that she was surrounded by mostly men and “they’re all bald.”
In her weeks of astrophysics research and astronomy reading, she had yet to find a book by a female astrophysicist…