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A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of
Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...
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"A great source of inspiration"
Born in England in 1900, Cecilia Payne originally intended to study botany at Cambridge University. But a lecture by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington about his 1919 expedition to test Einstein’s ...