Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysi
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Ratios of hydrogen and helium measured in the Milky Way galaxy match Payne-Gaposchkin's 1925 calculations
Payne-Gaposchkin at the Harvard College Observatory
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Joan Feynman
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Joan Feynman was an American astrophysicist and space physicist. She made contributions to the study of solar wind particles and fields, sun-Earth relations, and magnetospheric physics. She was known
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
…she blazed into the largely male-dominated scientific community was an inspiration to many. For example, she became a role model for astrophysicist Joan Feynman. Feynman's mother and grandmother had dissuaded her from pursuing science, since they believed women were not physically capable of understanding…
January 2015
An aurora display over Calgary
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