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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

British-American astronomer and astrophysicist. In her 1925 doctoral thesis she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

Cecilia Payne, who studied the new science of quantum physics, knew that the pattern of features in the spectrum of any atom was determined by the configuration ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - American Physical Society

January 1, 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Day the Universe Changed ... Cecilia Payne made a long and lonely journey from her childhood in England to ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | British Astronomer & Harvard Professor

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer who discovered that stars are made mainly of hydrogen and helium and established that stars ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The woman who first grasped the ...

the British-born American astronomer who applied principles of quantum physics, chemistry, and astronomy to become the first to realize—at the ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin | Council on Science and Technology

In 1923, Payne was awarded the Newnham College and Pickering fellowship which allowed her to work at the Harvard College Observatory, where she would remain for ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | The Harvard Plate Stacks

Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was a British–American astronomer associated with the Women Astronomical Computers, a group of female astronomers and ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the ...

But how did we learn that hydrogen is a widespread and fundamental component of the universe? Not enough people know that the cosmic importance ...

Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, PhD - AWIS

Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an English astronomer credited with discovering that stars were primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1936 and called by some “the most prominent woman astronomer ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | American Physical Society

Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's thesis is now widely recognized as one of the most significant discoveries in the history of astrophysics. By demonstrating that ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: What Stars Are Made Of

Astronomer and astrophysicist who battled through bias and prejudice while discovering that stars are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Harvard Magazine

Reporter and writer Donovan Moore is the author of What Stars Are Made Of, a biography of Payne-Gaposchkin just published by Harvard University Press.

'She was right and they were wrong': the female astronomers hidden ...

As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressed.

Franciele Kruczkiewicz about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Her groundbreaking research on the composition of stars changed the way we understand the universe. She discovered that our sun consists largely of hydrogen and ...

Cecilia PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN - Scientific Women

Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was a British–American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the ...

Great Minds of Astronomy: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - YouTube

Welcome to SciShow Space! In this episode Caitlin Hofmeister will talk about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the most influential women in ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – Goodsell Observatory - Carleton College

In 1925 Cecilia Payne became the first person, woman or man, to receive an Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard. Shapley had attempted to get her a ...

Cecilia Payne (1900–1979) | High Altitude Observatory

Cecilia Payne (1900–1979). Cecilia Payne was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. She was the first to discover that stars were composed ...

Hidden figures of Astronomy: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

After receiving a PhD, Cecilia continued with her Astronomy teaching and research at Harvard. By then she was a wife to Sergei Gaposchkin and a mother to 3 kids ...