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β§ Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin β§
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900β1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there ...
#CeciliaPayne-Gaposchkin #Earth #Sun #Wikipedia
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I finished reading the book on the left today, then went to the #Gutenberg Project and grabbed a copy of the book on the right.
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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin discovered evolution & Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen #CeciliaPayne
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βSince her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/alluoxofficial/permalink/3388629018016892/
#science #astronomy #CeciliaPayne #feminism #womenshistory #women
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The woman who explained the stars #CeciliaPayne
https://physicsworld.com/a/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-the-woman-who-found-hydrogen-in-the-stars/
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Empfehle "Geniale Frauen" gern noch einmal, da seit heute mehr als ein Dutzend weitere Kurzfilme ΓΌber zu Unrecht vergessene Pionierinnen freigeschaltet sind.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-023157/geniale-frauen
#GenialeFrauen #NettieStevens #AliceGuy #ElizabethMagie #MilevaEinstein #SabrinaSpielrein #LuciaMoholy #CeciliaPayne #PauletteNardal #LiseMeitner #MartheGautier #AnnaArnoldHedgeman #CatherineLeroy #DonnaStrickland