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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Gender Female
Death44 years ago
Date of birth May 10,1900
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Wendover
United Kingdom
Date of died December 7,1979
DiedCambridge
Massachusetts
United States
Siblings Leonora Florence Mary Payne
Job Astronomer
Education Harvard University
Awards Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Rittenhouse Medal
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Parents Emma Leonora Helena
Known forstellar spectra
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BooksCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections
Stars and Clusters
The Stars of High Luminosity
Galactic Novac
Academic advisor Harlow Shapley
Arthur Eddington
Children Katherine Haramundanis
Peter John Arthur Gaposchkin
Edward Gaposchkin
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

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