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Cecilia payne-gaposchkin autobiography

          Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is acclaimed as the greatest woman astronomer of all time.

        1. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is acclaimed as the greatest woman astronomer of all time.
        2. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is acclaimed as the greatest woman astronomer of all time.
        3. This book is the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin as she remembered it.
        4. In this book, her own story of her professional life, work, and scientific achievements is augmented by the personal recollections of her daughter, Katherine.
        5. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is acclaimed as the greatest woman astronomer of all time.

          6. This book is the life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin as she remembered it.!

          Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

          British-American astronomer (1900–1979)

          Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

          FRAS

          Born

          Cecilia Helena Payne


          (1900-05-10)May 10, 1900

          Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England

          DiedDecember 7, 1979(1979-12-07) (aged 79)

          Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

          CitizenshipBritish
          United States (from 1931)
          EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
          Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge;
          Harvard University
          Known forExplanation of stellar spectra and composition of the Sun, more than 3,000,000 observations of variable stars
          Spouse
          Children3
          AwardsAnnie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (1934), Rittenhouse Medal (1961), Award of Merit from Radcliffe College (1952), Henry Norris Russell Prize (1976)
          Scientific career
          FieldsAstronomy, astrophysics
          InstitutionsHarvard College Observatory, Harvard University
          ThesisStellar Atmospheres: A contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing la