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The Stars are Comforting
by RNZ
A 20-part series based on internationally-recognised New Zealand scientist Beatrice Tinsley’s letters to her family.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1980-1981
New apartment, concert, work, trip to England, spreading cancer, Yale Infirmary.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1979-1980
Eleven-year-old daughter Terry comes to live with Beatrice, concerts, hospital, teaching, trip to Texas, visits from sister and father, trips to Maryland, Washington.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1978-1979
Continuing research, teaching, travel to New Zealand, music making, medical treatment, visit from children, concerts.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1976-1978
Europe, home to Yale, organises large conference in May '77, visits from father, children, more travel, discovery of melanoma, string trio, promotion to Professor of Astronomy.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1975-1976
At home in Yale, playing chamber music again, media attention, visit from children, growing relationship with Richard Larson, trips to Switzerland, Colorado.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1975
Six months at Lick Observatory, California, visit from father, children, 3210 mile drive to new job at Yale, a Cambridge summer.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1974
Annie Cannon Prize in Astronomy, visit to sister in Huancayo, research at Cambridge, end of marriage, job offers, farewells.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1973-1974
Two trips to Europe, teaching in Dallas, begins Evolution of Galaxies project at Caltech.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1972-1973
Three months post in Pasadena, back to Dallas, Pasadena again, home to New Zealand for Christmas, new position in Maryland.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1971
Research, conservation, travel, two papers at Amherst.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1970
ZPG, Cosmology in Colorado, violin, vacation, homesick for New Zealand.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1969
Husband away, concerts, a cosmology paper and weather extremes.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1968
Two children, chamber music, orchestra, and a little astrophysics.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1967-1968
Cosmology in New York, motherhood, orchestra and mother's death.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1964-1966
Commuting between Dallas and Austin, Ph.D and baby.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1963-1964
Dallas, Astrophysics symposium, concerts, Austin.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1962-1963
Twenty-first, Nuclear proliferation and M.Sc.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1960-1961
Physics, philosophy, love and marriage to Brian Tinsley.
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1959-1960
National Youth Orchestra and General Relativity Theory
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The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley: 1958-1959
Cambridge Music School and off to university in Christchurch.
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A 20-part series based on internationally-recognised New Zealand scientist Beatrice Tinsley’s letters to her family.
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