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Categories: 20th-century American women scientists, American women physicists, People educated at St Paul's Girls' School, American women astronomers, Women astrophysicists
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin  Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin  Cecilia Gaposchkin  Cecilia H. Payne  Cecilia Helen Payne
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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. Wikipedia
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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. Wikipedia
1900-1979, astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
British-born American astronomer Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Rittenhouse Medal
CAUSE OF DEATH
cancer
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
United Kingdom
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Eddington
Shapley
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Frank Drake
Joseph Ashbrook
EDUCATED AT
Harvard University
Radcliffe College
St Paul's Girls' School
Newnham College, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
Harvard University
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard College Observatory
FAMILY NAME
Payne
FATHER
Edward John Payne
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
GIVEN NAME
Cecilia
Helena
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
American Astronomical Society
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
OCCUPATION
astronomer
astrophysicist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Wendover
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
PROFESSORSHIP
professor
RELATIVE
Dilys Powell
RELIGION
agnosticism
RESIDENCE
Lexington
SEX OR GENDER
female
SIBLING
Humfry Payne
Wikipedia
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Wikidata
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Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
Wikipedia Redirections
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Cecilia Gaposchkin, Cecilia H. Payne, Cecilia Helena Payne, Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne, Cecilia Payne-Gasposkin, Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, Sergei Gaposchkin
Wikidata Alias
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Cecilia Helen Payne, Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Payne

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