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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Astronomer
1900 – 1979
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Who was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin?
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin 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.
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- Born
- May 10, 1900
Wendover - Nationality
- United States of America
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Harvard University
- Newnham College, Cambridge
- Radcliffe College
- Lived in
- Lexington
- Died
- Dec 7, 1979
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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