Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 45 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 10,1900 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Wendover |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | December 7,1979 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| 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 for | stellar spectra |
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| Books | Cecilia 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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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2054304 |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Life story
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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