Title: The Jason Project and Deaf Students: Craters Named for Deaf People
1The Jason Project and Deaf StudentsCraters
Named for Deaf People
- Harry G. Lang
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Rochester Institute of Technology
2Note to Jason Teachers
- I once wrote an article for deaf children in
which I identified six craters named for deaf
people. - Six Moon Craters Named for Deaf Scientists
- may be downloaded at
- http//clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/sc
ience4.html
3Note to Jason Teachers
- Several more craters have been found since that
article was published - These slides may be modified for use in your
classroom - Please remember that the photos are downloaded
from the Web and acknowledgements of their use
beyond the classroom may be necessary
4Resources for Science Teachersfor more
information about the deaf people who were
honored with crater names
- Silence of the Spheres The Deaf Experience
in the History of Science (1994) - Harry Lang
5Resources for Science Teachers for more
information about the deaf people who were
honored with crater names
- Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences A
Biographical Dictionary (1995) - Harry Lang
- Bonnie Meath-Lang
6Craters Named for Deaf People
- Start of slide show for clasroom use
7Konstantin TsiolkovskyThe Father of
Astronautics
8Tsiolkovskys rocket designs
9Father of Astronautics
10Crater Tsiolkovsky on the Moon
11Annie Jump CannonDean of Women Astronomers
12Annie Jump Cannon
- Annie Jump Cannon was born in Dover, Delaware on
December 11, 1863. - During her first winter at school she became deaf
through a fever. She learned to lip-read very
well and wore a hearing aid.
13Annie Jump Cannon
- categorized more than 300,000 stars.
- She discovered 300 binary stars, 5 novae, and
many other stars. - Known as the Dean of Women Astronomers
14Crater Cannon, Far Side
15Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
16Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
- investigated variable stars in the Magellanic
Clouds and discovered 1,777 new variable stars.
17Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
- A remarkable relation between the brightness
of these variables and the length of their
periods will be noticed. . . the brighter
variables have the longer periods.
18Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
- This period-luminosity relation made possible
measurements of the distances of stars from the
earth and the determination of intergalactic
distances by determining the distances from the
earth of stars in galaxies outside our own.
19Henrietta Swan LeavittAmerican Astronomer
- Leavitt was considered for a Nobel Prize in 1924
- She died of cancer and was unable to be nominated
for the Nobel Prize. - George Johnson recently published a book, "Miss
Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman
Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe."
20Crater Leavitt, Far Side
21Robert Grant Aitken, Deaf Astronomer
22Robert Grant Aitken,Deaf Astronomer
- Published the book
- The Binary Stars
- Discovered more than 3000 double star systems
- President of the Commission on Double Stars in
the International Astronomical Union
23Crater Aitken, Near Side
24Crater La Condamine, Near SideCharles de la
Condamine, a deaf French scientist, 18th century
25Crater Amontons, Near SideGuillaume Amontons,
deaf French physicist, 17th century
26Crater Edison, Near SideThomas Alva Edisondeaf
inventor
27Crater Heaviside, Near SideOliver Heaviside,
deaf British electrical scientist
28A Martian crater is named for Beethoven
29A Venusian Crater is named for Tilly Edinger, a
deaf German fossil scientist