Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Scientist

Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979) was a British–American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium.

Personal facts

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Birth dateMay 10, 1900
Birth place
Wendover , Buckinghamshire
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Date of deathDecember 07, 1979
Place of death
Cambridge Massachusetts
Residence
Lexington Massachusetts
Education
Radcliffe College
University of Cambridge
Known for
Sun

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Scientist

awards
Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Joseph Ashbrook
Frank Kameny
Paul W. Hodge
Field of study
Astronomy
Astrophysics

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Payne-Gaposchkin,_Cecilia_Helena@861234567.html
  2. http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/31784.html
  3. http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4620.html
  4. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astronomy-resource-guides/women-in-astronomy-an-introductory-resource-guide
  5. http://www.carleton.edu/departments/PHAS/Astro/pages/marga_michele/Cecilia_Payne.html
  6. http://www.uuworld.org/2003/01/lookingback.html