Virginia Louise Trimble (born November 15, 1943) is an American astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy.

[5] Trimble "grew up the only child of a chemist father and a mother with a flair for language, within easy driving distance of both UCLA and Caltech.

"[6] While attending UCLA in 1962, she was the subject of a Life article titled "Behind a Lovely Face, a 180 I.Q.

In 1972, she met and 11 days later married University of Maryland, College Park Professor Joseph Weber, a pioneer in gravitational wave physics.

From then until his death in 2000, she spent half of each academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland.