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    Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; (1900-05-10)May 10, 1900 – (1979-12-07)December 7, 1979) was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist...
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  • Payne-Gaposchkin could refer to: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979, astronomer 2039 Payne-Gaposchkin, an asteroid discovered in 1974, named after Cecilia...
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    singer songwriter Cecilia Parker (1914–1993), Canadian actress Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), English-American astronomer Cecilia Peters, Australian...
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  • distinguished contributions to surface or nanoscale physics. The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize is awarded for plasma or space physics The Edward...
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  • of the American Astronomical Society. She was a contemporary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her closest friend at the observatory. Ames died in a boating...
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  • father of three children, the astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), the archaeologist Humfry Payne (1902–1936), who married the writer Dilys...
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  • States. It was named for British–American astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Payne-Gaposchkin is a member of the Themis family, a dynamical family of...
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    received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Astronomy. His doctoral advisor was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Drake began his research career as a radio astronomer, working...
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  • radio bursts. Stars are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin found in her 1925 PhD thesis that stars are primarily composed...
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    metallicity), had not yet been discovered. In 1925 Cecilia Helena Payne (later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin) wrote an influential doctoral dissertation at Radcliffe...
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    a philosophical point of view. 'I never go to church', he told Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 'I am too religious. "Harlow Shapley". American Academy of Arts...
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    non-homogeneous fashion), stellar evolution results. Russell dissuaded Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin from concluding that the composition of the Sun is different from...
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  • he married the journalist Dilys Powell. Payne was the younger brother of the astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979). A research studentship at...
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  • cricketer Cecelia Kenyon (1923–1990), American political scientist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist...
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    Gregersen. "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | American Astronomer." Encyclopædia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecilia-Payne-Gaposchkin Archived...
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  • the FOX series Martin C. D. Payne (C. Douglas Payne), U.S. novelist Cecil Payne, American saxophonist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), British-American...
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    Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Prize, Harvard University (2013) Distinguished Research Chair,...
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    spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets. His supervisor there was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. During World War II, he developed a two-star sextant for air navigation...
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    agreeing with Einstein." British future astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin attended the expedition and Eddington's lecture and later related...
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    Sciences. 1925: British-American astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin established that hydrogen is the most common element in stars,...
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    scriptwriter Geoffrey Palmer (1927–2020), actor[citation needed] Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979), astronomer and astrophysicist Margaret Rawlings (1906–1996)...
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    developed to explain the interiors of stars and stellar evolution. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin first proposed that stars were made primarily of hydrogen and helium...
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    Per National Library of Medicine Timeline of women in science Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer who discovered the most elemental composition of stars...
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  • Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics) 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that hydrogen is the...
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    Cleve, Harriet Brooks, Alice Ball, Mileva Marić, Inge Lehmann, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Leona Woods and Helen Parsons were not included. In 1912, Mary...
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    Semiregular Variables and was written under the supervision of professor Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. On August 26, 1956, Kameny was away from his home in Boston, attending...
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    when she came across a graph based on research by astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. In 1948 Feynman earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Oberlin...
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  • Facilities Council. In 2013 Norreys won the Institute of Physics Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize. "Peter Norreys - University of Oxford Department...
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    doctorate of science from Oxford University. 1925: Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin established that hydrogen is the most common element in stars,...
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  • Chochol as the voice of Jan Oort Kirsten Dunst as the voice of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cary Elwes as the voice of Edmond Halley and Robert Hooke Richard...
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