Virginia Trimble

Virginia 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. She is also 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.

Trimble was married to physicist Joseph Weber.

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).