| LC control no. | n 79056850 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-1979 Payne, Cecilia H., 1900-1979 |
| Birth date | 1900-05-10 |
| Death date | 1979-12-07 |
| Place of birth | Wendover (England) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics Astronomy |
| Affiliation | Radcliffe College |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers Astrophysicists |
| Found in | Stellar atmospheres; a contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars, 1925: t.p. (Cecilia H. Payne) LCCN 29-10581: Shapley, H. The universe of stars, 1929 (hdg.: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (Payne), Mrs., 1900- ; usage: Cecila H. Payne) Wikipedia, April 29, 2014 (Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin; born May 10, 1900 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire; died December 7, 1979 in Cambridge, Mass.; 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. In 1925 she became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College. When Payne's dissertation was reviewed, astronomer Henry Norris Russell dissuaded her from concluding that the composition of the Sun is different from that of the Earth, contradicting the accepted wisdom at the time. However, he changed his mind four years later after deriving the same result by different means) |
| Associated language | eng |
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